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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has outlined some of the work of the shared island initiative. Dealing with legacy is an important part of the work being done. The British Labour Government has committed to changes but no agreement has been reached yet, and there are a number of areas where families have been seeking answers and where the Government here has a role to play. I ask in particular about the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is 20 years since we saw distressing footage of conditions at Leas Cross nursing home. Here we are again. The scenes on last Thursday's "RTÉ Investigates" programme were deeply disturbing. Aoife Hegarty's team exposed horrifying practices in nursing homes run by one of Ireland's largest private care providers. I commend the RTÉ team and the whistleblower, Claire Doyle, on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully to the answer but I did not hear anything substantive about what the Taoiseach and the Government propose to do following on from those shocking revelations. It is not just about HIQA failures. This is also about ensuring older persons have a voice. There is a blueprint there. We have a Law Reform Commission report from last year about setting up an adult safeguarding...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: When?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Government's rent pressure zone changes have caused fear among renters and uncertainty for investors and the Taoiseach's response to questions earlier provided no clarity. We got poetry - at least, one of the Government Deputies did - but we got no direct response. The Taoiseach said the changes to rent pressure zones will increase supply. Has any modelling been done to show how that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: But is there evidence?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Why March?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Dialogue (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [18694/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 55. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [18695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children looking for placements in special schools in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W and 8 respectively, in May in each of the years 2020,2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [29617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children looking for placements in special classes in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W and 8 respectively, in May in each of the years 2020,2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [29618/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new, targeted measures that have been introduced since the publication of the 2023 Funding the Future – Options Paper on the Cost of Higher Education to directly reduce the financial burden of graduate entry medicine tuition fees for socio-economically disadvantaged students; and if his Department considers general supports such as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department holds or has requested data on the socio-economic background of applicants and entrants to graduate entry medicine programmes over the past five years; and if so, to publish a breakdown, by income decile or deprivation index, to allow analysis of equity in access. [29045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a formal mechanism within his Department to monitor socio-economic equity in access to graduate entry medicine programmes; and if not, whether he intends to establish one in light of consistent Higher Education Authority data showing the underrepresentation of disadvantaged students in medical education. [29046/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: After the general election, all the briefing from the Government was that it was ready to take what it called "difficult decisions" to fix this housing disaster. In recent weeks, it has certainly been difficult to watch his Government's chaotic decision-making - its U-turns, drip-feeds and hasty rewrites of flawed press releases. Undoubtedly, the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Browne,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: He made it sound like it was a "gotcha" moment for him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is hardly gotcha. Of course, we welcome decisions that are taken by the Government that we believe will fix the housing crisis. We support the extension of RPZs across the country, but not a hollowed out version of RPZs that offer no real protections for renters. This was not a gotcha moment for landlords because last week he gave them a generous nine months' notice of his mooted plans....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: People will gather to send a strong message to the Government. It is time for a radical reset of housing policy. No more incoherent policy changes. We need to see the radical reset the Housing Commission has called for because only the State has the deep pockets necessary to underwrite the construction of homes at the scale that is needed. The Government must scale up its effort and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We cannot. We are not in the Government.