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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I too acknowledge the workers in the Gallery. This morning EU climate ministers agreed to reduce carbon emissions by between 85% and 90% by 2040, following marathon negotiations in advance of the COP30 summit. Ministers adopted a legally binding target for cutting emissions by 85% by 2040. On paper and in principle, it is positive to see this agreement reached, but the deal also...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----and that we can have investment in infrastructure-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to address climate?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know where to start in coming back to the Minister on his response. We all know Government housing policy has abjectly failed. The Government failed to deliver homes or meet its own targets. We saw vastly elevated and false targets last year, and thousands of people in homelessness. It is absolutely shocking to see so many children in particular without a home in an Ireland that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Look at our manifesto.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: To uphold standards.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: First, I want to say fáilte ar ais and welcome back to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I never thought I would say this, but I have missed his voice in my left ear across the aisle. It is great to see him back. I acknowledge the wonderful electoral victories against Trump in the US overnight. The stunning win by Zohran Mamdani in New York, in particular, proves that voters want a message of...

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I commend Deputy Marie Sherlock on proposing this important motion and pay tribute to our colleague, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP, who has led on decriminalisation for so long. I welcome campaigners and students to the Public Gallery and I thank them for their support on this. It is three years since Labour brought forward a motion on decriminalisation in November 2022....

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: About 300,000 households are behind on their electricity bills and household electricity bills have jumped by more than €320 in a year. My colleague Deputy Ahern has been working hard to stop the greed that is driving this awful inflation and really making things so difficult for so many struggling households. Deputy Ahern has called on the Government to use the EU electricity and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The winter is upon us. People are already struggling. What will the Government do to help people from struggling even further with their energy bills?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his careful and responsible words in his response. He is absolutely right that people must of course be able to debate migration policy, but let us do so in a fact-based manner. Let us use careful and responsible language. I certainly do not think the Tánaiste’s conflation of all migrants with a tiny number of people facing deportation orders was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am not conflating them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Fact based.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The rest of them were.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I extand a comhghairdeas mór to our new Uachtarán na hÉireann, Catherine Connolly, on her historic landslide win. I know as President she will do us proud just as Michael D. Higgins has done. I also want to acknowledge the loss of the great Sr. Stan. She did the State immense service through her work on social justice and she leaves a truly remarkable legacy. May she...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There is breaking news tonight. I condemn the outbreak of violence in Saggart.

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I see reports that a Garda van has been set alight and fireworks and missiles are being thrown at gardaí as a large crowd have gathered outside Citywest Hotel. I condemn that violence. It is an ongoing situation. I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate. I thank Deputy McDonald and her colleagues in Sinn Féin for putting forward this motion. It is timely. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [50152/25]