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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier about the major crisis in our public infrastructure that is clearly delaying progress on the construction of housing and, indeed, delaying progress towards meeting our climate targets. In particular, I speak about difficulties with energy and water infrastructure. I want to focus on water infrastructure because just at the end of May, the Government was warned by Uisce...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I asked about a contingency plan.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What is the contingency plan?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I begin by welcoming an important young visitor Minnie McDermott to the Visitors Gallery. I again welcome yesterday's announcement about the establishment of a commission of investigation into sexual abuse in schools. I pay tribute, as I know we all do, to the Ryan brothers, David and the late Mark, for their bravery in stepping forward and speaking out about their experiences of abuse....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We all want to see those accountable to be made to contribute. I welcome that the Government is exploring and examining legal options. However, this is not a new phenomenon; we have known about this issue for years. The Labour Party produced a Bill to ensure that we can pursue religious orders and unincorporated associations. I have sent the Taoiseach a copy I will send him another copy....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We know St. John Ambulance has paid money in settlements to a survivor who alleges sexual abuse in childhood by a former senior figure in St. John Ambulance. We are aware of further civil cases, and that some have been referred to An Garda. In 2023, the Shannon review confirmed systemic failures in St. John Ambulance from the sixties to the nineties. I note a recent statement from the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Which we welcomed.

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the update on his attendance at the European Council. I attended the Party of European Socialists leaders' summit on the morning of the European Council in Brussels on 26 June. As the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, knows, there is a group leaders' summit in advance of Council meetings. We in the Labour Party are proud affiliates of the Party of European...

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----here in Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been brought to concerns raised about a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37327/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Economic Dialogue (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the national economic dialogue. [35902/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason section 22 of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 has not been commenced. [37578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if legislation to underpin the defects remediation schemes will be laid before the Oireachtas Housing Committee for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny before the end of 2025; and when the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill will be passed and commenced. [37810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €20,000 cap for scholarship income for the purpose of claiming disability allowance, DA, will be revised in line with IRC stipends; and if the cap of "scholarships of up to €20,000" should be read as indicating that funding in excess of €20,000 is counted as means, or if scholarships in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 791. To ask the Minister for Health when section 232 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37326/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, I joined an incredibly moving event on Kildare Street. It was organised by Grannies for Palestine. Its members unveiled a patchwork crochet banner that stretched the length of Kildare Street across the front of Leinster House. Devastatingly, each square in the banner was crafted to represent ten Gazan children who have been killed since Hamas's barbaric attack in October 2023....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We will keep pressing on the occupied territories Bill, but there is more here in Ireland that the Taoiseach's Government could be doing to show solidarity with the people of Palestine and, in particular, the children of Palestine. First, I have been working for some months now seeking urgent action from the Government to bring desperately sick children out of Gaza on a medical evacuation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: And the GAA?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We have seen yet another Trump tariff turn with his 30% announcement - or threat at least - at the weekend. I know, as the Taoiseach has said, this would be ruinous both for the EU economy and the US. We have also seen the new deadline of 1 August. Speaking with small business owners, they say it is not a relief to see that extended. Rather, it prolongs the uncertainty for business in...