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

Ivana Bacik: We are not.

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

Ivana Bacik: Níl aon plean ag an Rialtas. It does not have a plan for what will follow for people who are facing homelessness from 1 April. What it presented this week was a series of last minute dot com measures cobbled together, measures which have no hope of meeting the real needs of households facing homelessness from 1 April. None of us is demonising landlords. We are conscious that small...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [13428/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On Government co-ordination on the decision not to extend the eviction ban, I ask the Taoiseach again if he has been presented with any analysis or reasoning by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage as to the effect that the lifting of the ban will have, not only on rising homeless figures but also on the numbers of landlords and private rental properties available. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the events in his Department to mark International Women's Day; and the measures he has taken to improve gender equality in his Department. [11058/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the announcement the Taoiseach made on International Women's Day that the Government will hold a gender equality referendum in November, and I welcome his commitment that the proposals will be published by the end of June. Can the Taoiseach confirm that the proposals for the referendum will be aligned with the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [11009/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a recent publication of which the Taoiseach may be aware, entitled A Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Irelandedited by Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke. This new publication tells the story of Donnybrook Magdalen laundry, which was established in 1837 by the Religious Sisters of Charity. It reveals a significant amount of new...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the issue of prospective job losses because this week, news broke of further job cuts from Amazon, with 9,000 jobs on the line internationally, in a second wave of job cuts being announced in addition to the 18,000 announced by Amazon in January that led, as we know, to 70 redundancies in Ireland. Layoffs have already been announced by other companies in the tech sector, such...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister is right that there are 173 in the pipeline - that is also in the answer - but only seven have been purchased. I also hear from landlords who tell me they are trying to engage with local authorities, because they want to sell to a local authority to keep the family renting from them out of homelessness, and the local authorities are not engaging. I hear of other problems with...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of Labour, I support the motion and commend Deputy Ó Broin and his colleagues for bringing it forward. It represents a sensible and compassionate approach to the growing crisis and the impending cliff edge that so many families and renters are facing. I cannot support, nor can my Labour colleagues, the Government amendment. I urge Government and the Minister to recognise the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I note the focus on equality in the well-being framework and highlight that this year marks two important anniversaries, namely, the 30th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality through the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 and 40 years since the landmark case taken by our dear colleague Senator Norris to the Supreme Court in 1983. In that context, have all Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [13430/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The UN IPCC climate report, published yesterday, represents a last wake-up call. Decisions made this decade will have an impact lasting thousands of years. Although the window of opportunity is closing, the report makes clear some feasible and effective options are available to us to reduce emissions. I will ask the Taoiseach about three of them. First, the report states we must phase out...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Dublin 2, 4, and 6 are great.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [13427/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [9677/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, confirmed that it will vote against the British Government's proposals on the Stormont brake on Wednesday. This is of real concern as it is a key part of the Windsor Framework agreement. The DUP's approach now indicates that, sadly, we are no closer to the restoration of the power-sharing Executive and the Stormont Assembly. This clearly has major...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Two weeks ago, news broke that building has been paused on 58 school construction projects around the country, including four urgent school construction projects in my own constituency of Dublin Bay South, two in Harold's Cross and two in Sandymount. All four are Educate Together schools whose campuses I have recently visited. I am getting so much correspondence from parents and staff in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, issued a final warning on climate change with some deeply concerning findings including the fact that temperatures have been rising faster in last 50 years than for the previous two millenniums. The science is very clear. There is an urgent need to decarbonise our economy and society. I ask that we would have a debate on...