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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (26 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the level of regulation and oversight of the Irish energy market covering domestic and commercial supply of electricity and gas; if he is satisfied with the current powers available to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; if he intends to provide stronger powers to the CRU to regulate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (26 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; the purpose of the meeting and the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19678/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (26 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his Department have been provided with advice by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on retail energy prices in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19679/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council. [19240/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [19239/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: First, I express my solidarity with the people of Sudan who have been affected by this terrible conflict that is ongoing there. Could the Taoiseach assure that Irish citizens who are trapped there, from whom we have heard some very distressing experiences, have been safely evacuated? I know a ceasefire has come into effect, so I hope it will hold and that there will be a lasting peace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [19238/23]

Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: First Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make further provision in relation to the office of the Attorney General. The Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023 is a Bill we prepared some months ago following the highlighting of the practice of illegal charging for older people in nursing home care and the removal of disability allowance payments...

Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: First Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the very disturbing revelations that an investigator with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, apparently attended a party with Gerard Hutch on the evening of the day that the latter was acquitted by the Special Criminal Court following the prosecution arising from the Regency Hotel murder, which casts such a long shadow on those...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: May I say-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We are concerned that this is not just an isolated incident-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----and there may be other issues around Garda collusion with organised crime.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Seán Guerin looked at Garda files and at the way prosecutions were handled.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: What about the coalition leaders' critique of the Minister of State?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Following these further revelations, we in the Labour Party are also looking for the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, to give a statement to the House and, further, to take questions and answers on that statement. On 2 March, prior to the most recent allegations that have emerged, the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, made a statement in a hastily-arranged slot on a Thursday...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what we think.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach can dress up the figures any way he likes, but we are in housing disaster of epic proportions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: There is no doubt about that. Can the Taoiseach say how many new homes will be delivered as a result of today's latest series of tweaked measures? The Taoiseach has accused the Labour Party of lacking confidence. With a fifth Fine Gael Deputy announcing earlier today that he is jumping ship, it looks like there is a lack of confidence on the opposite side of the House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: There is certainly a lack of confidence in the capacity of the Government to deliver on housing. We have seen no ambition, no sense or urgency and, to date, no results. We have seen no evidence basis for decision-making. I got figures by means of a freedom of information request last week which show that the Residential Tenancies Board data on notices to quit, which were supposed to be...