Results 11,561-11,580 of 11,710 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Anybody watching will be wondering when the Government is going to take political responsibility for the housing crisis. He is the Taoiseach and is in government. His party and Fine Gael have effectively governed together for the best part of a decade and yet, he is resorting to throwing critiques at the Opposition for not building homes. We are in opposition. The Labour Party, as the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The Government has to take responsibility and deliver the homes people need.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: You did not give us a chance. You had done the deal with Michael Lowry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: That is not true.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the pressing issue of institutional abuse. We know that survivors deserve justice and fair redress but for far too long institutions, and religious-run orders in particular, have been able to evade accountability for abuse carried out under their watch. Last year, we saw the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church recording more allegations of abuse...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It will be introduced.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I will write to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [16740/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: There is a real concern that we will be simply unable to meet our targets. Figures from the CSO, published last week, show 22% of Ireland's electricity in 2024 was consumed by data centres and that demand had increased by 10% in one year. We recently saw the Secretary General of the Department of the environment raising concerns about the potential conflict between expanding data centres...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: There are some indications that, for example, data centres themselves can drive change and ensure they become net zero but we need the Government to take the lead on this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: We are not seeing that happen currently.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: These are Taoiseach’s Questions, not questions to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department’s interdepartmental group report on the Dublin city task force recommendations. [22232/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I have two questions about the task force. We see a huge number of issues in Dublin that need to be addressed urgently. There is a deteriorating public realm, vast numbers of vacant sites and derelict buildings, mouldy and damp social housing, including issues with social housing complexes in my constituency, and a lack of joined-up thinking about keeping spaces safe. Given the need for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The hotel bed tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I think it will be €12 million.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The closure of services.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [26917/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: In December 2022, I wrote to the Taoiseach, who was the then Tánaiste, and the then Taoiseach, former Deputy Leo Varadkar, seeking updates on the national security strategy and also seeking briefings for Opposition leaders on national security, as is standard in many countries. That was in the context of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, the cyberattack on the HSE and reports of Russian...