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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: All this is evidence-based.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach’s response and tone indicate the problem here. The renters listening to him now are the people who are facing the certain knowledge that from 1 April, a notice of termination will take effect, they will face eviction and there is nowhere else for them to go because there is a chronic shortage of housing across the country. We listened to the Taoiseach’s...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On 9 February, six weeks ago now, the Labour Party called for an extension to the eviction ban in our motion. The Government voted it down. It voted down our proposal for a series of constructive measures that would have served to increase the number of homes available to people. Despite positive indications the Government was going to extend the ban in the meantime, at the last minute it...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 127. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the International Division of his Department. [13429/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 128. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee for Accommodation and Supports for Ukrainian Refugees took place. [13433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the allocation of capital funding for construction of schools in Budget 2023; his plans to commit additional funding to ensure construction can resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13023/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the tenant in situ scheme to introduce mandatory local authority purchase for certain tenants who are supported through the housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme. [13105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if proposals to give first refusal to tenants, where their landlord seeks to sell their property, will include measures to offer second refusal to local authorities. [13104/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on delays in response times by the Residential Tenancies Board; his further views on how current delays compare with wait times in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13100/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to allocate additional staff to the Residential Tenancies Board. [13101/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed referendum on housing will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13102/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Equality Issues (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to collate and publish data on LGBTQ+ homelessness in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13103/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the average wait-time for a response from the Residential Tenancies Board to landlords seeking to register a tenancy in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [13749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the pause placed on 58 new school buildings; if current delays are expected to affect the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13021/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her representations to the Minister for Public Expenditure in respect of capital funding pressures preventing the construction of 58 schools; and if she drew his attention to the shortfall for construction of schools in advance of Budget 2023, in particular. [13022/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons waiting for a laptop, tablet or other specialist software under the assistive technology grant; how this figure compares with previous waiting lists in 2020, 2021 and 2022; if priority will be given to students sitting State examinations in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13099/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the steps involved in making a complaint to Pobal in respect of an alleged breach of Core Funding; and if it is possible for complainants to remain anonymous. [13748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 1114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to institute a guaranteed timeframe for the completion of naturalisation applications; and his plans to clear the backlog in applications. [13830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Sign Language (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 1090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Courts Service. [13491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Sign Language (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 1091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Prison Service. [13492/23]