Results 2,161-2,180 of 11,433 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise the case of Bernard Phelan, an Irish citizen who has been held hostage in Iran since last October and who has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison. In late February, he was sentenced to three and a half years for providing information to an enemy country, a charge he denies. He was then pardoned on humanitarian grounds, but was brought back and the pardon was revoked....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for responding to my letter in which I sought information on the co-ordination of services for those who have come here from Ukraine fleeing the brutal war being waged by Russia on their country. Further to that letter, can the Taoiseach give me more information on capacity in the education system for those children who have come here from Ukraine? A Labour Party...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [15089/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine will next meet. [15091/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Speaking at the Labour Party conference this weekend, Phil Ni Sheaghdha said the health service is excellent but only for those who can access it and pointed to the trolley crisis, which is now a permanent trolley crisis. A key concern and issue in dealing with this is how the housing crisis is impacting the ability to recruit nurses, midwives, doctors and other medical staff because they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [13431/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In the week when so many families are facing a cliff edge of eviction in view of the ban on evictions being lifted on Saturday, we have learned that housing commencements have declined by 20% under the Government. That is 6,000 fewer new homes than at the same time last year. The Government has consistently over-relied on private developers to provide homes. The private market has proven...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad the Taoiseach saw that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We thought the Government might put measures in place.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Not only was the debate on lifting the eviction ban withdrawn from the schedule today, furthermore the Taoiseach has not responded to the letter I wrote to him two weeks ago, enclosing proposed legislation that we in Labour put forward, with an evidence base for the lifting of the eviction ban if and when there was a demonstrable drop in homelessness figures over four consecutive months....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the organisations and stakeholders he and his Department officials met with as part of deliberations regarding the lifting of the eviction ban. [15456/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to conduct modelling on the effect of the lifting of the eviction ban; and if this modelling will inform the development of contingency plans to mitigate the risk of increased pressure on homeless services. [15457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans to give tenants first refusal of their landlord's property will fix the sale price at the market rate. [15458/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and locations of the 58 schools which have had construction paused; if her Department maintains data on the shortfall of primary and secondary school places in each of those respective areas; and, if so, if she will present that data, in tabular form. [14942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the practice in place to ensure that homeless international protection applicants have access to the daily expenses allowance and other material resources; his further views on the practice in place to ensure that international protection applicants resident at Citywest transit hub are paid the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 718. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether retrospective declarations of parentage can be dealt with prior to the establishment of an Assisted Human Reproduction Regulator under the provisions of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15260/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise yesterday’s devastating news for Waterford, namely the announcement that the Cartamundi plant there will close with the loss of 234 jobs. The factory has been manufacturing board games and cards since 1977, meaning nearly half a century of good, local, unionised jobs. On a recent visit to Waterford with our local councillor Mr. Séamus Ryan, I had the pleasure of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is not enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Tá ceart tithíochta ag gach duine ach is léir nach gcreideann an Rialtas sa cheart seo. Everyone has a right to a home but the vote by Government and some Independent Deputies yesterday evening tells us that your belief in that right is qualified. Although motions are non-binding, yesterday’s vote sent a devastating message to people in housing distress and housing...