Results 181-200 of 11,381 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: We are proposing a better idea.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I never disagreed with that
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: We have no issue with that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Every week brings yet more news of Government failure, as the housing crisis further spirals out of the Government's control. This week, we saw daft.ie report that rents have risen by a staggering 43% since the pandemic. At the weekend, right on schedule, we were treated to the latest top-of-the-head idea from the Government. First it was tax breaks, then it was beds in sheds and, this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier on the huge risks posed to the international rules-based order by the Trump presidency. It is a very important time for us to stand in solidarity with those campaigning for democracy. I am thinking of those in Ukraine and those of course in the democratic opposition in Belarus and in other countries around the world. Here at home, the Taoiseach said yesterday that Ireland...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 38. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [7361/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Last week I raised the chronic shortages of staff across the healthcare sector with the Taoiseach and clearly that is contributing hugely to delays in the system and to the numbers on trolleys. Today the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, reported 669 people on trolleys, and 9,738 so far in February alone. This is clearly not just an issue around weekend cover or workplace...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [5758/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The programme for Government refers to the establishment of the Cabinet committee on water quality in the context of the nitrates derogation and to evidence-based solutions to assist farmers to improve water quality. The Taoiseach stated the committee is due to meet shortly for the first time. I ask that the remit might extend beyond that issue and hope that it will. There are many...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on water quality will next meet. [7360/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: They cannot get places from the Government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach stated that it is unacceptable to have so many people in homelessness. There are 4,500 children in emergency accommodation. We need workable proposals from Government to address the housing crisis. We do not need things like beds in sheds; we need really workable schemes. We in the Labour Party welcomed the tenant in situ scheme. We recognise it is the only hope for many...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express our strong opposition to the Government's attempt to ram through this proposal to designate those who are clearly in government, who have supported the Government, as "Other Members". It is ridiculous to see the tortuous attempts the Government is making now to facilitate the Lowry lackeys by this attempt to shoehorn in-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I will withdraw that remark.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The proposal put forward by the Government to facilitate the group led by Deputy Michael Lowry does not even make grammatical sense, nor does it make legal sense. It would apply to members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to designate a body of Members who are not in opposition in this way.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: We are strongly opposed to it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: That is not the case.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I am glad the Taoiseach acknowledges the need for greater investment in the Defence Forces. We are all very aware of that. On the triple lock, however, the Taoiseach continues to say that retaining the requirement for a UN mandate leaves us at the mercy of Russia or China having a veto. The Taoiseach knows that the legislation underpinning the triple lock enables a UN mandate to give...