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Ceisteanna - Questions: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has any plans for reform of the Office of the Attorney General; and the legal actions under way against his Department [6928/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach said he has no plans for fundamental reform of the Office of the Attorney General. I ask that the Taoiseach look at the Bill my colleague, Deputy Nash, and I drafted to reform the Office of the Attorney General. The Bill in question is currently with the Bills Office for review. In it, we propose several much-needed changes to the Office of the Attorney General. First, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I do not think so. We have advice to the contrary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Acting Chair for his forbearance. There is a severe lack of competition in parts of the Irish banking sector. While new fintech platforms like Revolut have mounted a challenge to the existing banks, there has been a concentration of power in the hands of fewer big banks in respect of areas like mortgages and business lending. This is a concern. There are also serious...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [8205/23]

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

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the serious news that Google has announced that it plans to cut 240 from its Irish workforce. My thoughts today, like those of all of us, are with those individuals who are affected by this announcement and with their families. Of course, the job losses will impact those employed by Google within my own constituency of Dublin Bay South, in particular, where Google has a very...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I express, in strong terms, my disappointment and concern at the way this has been done. For those of us who signed up in good faith to the original text of the motion - I have now read the Government's proposed motion that just came through - it is most inappropriate that there is such a short timeframe for Opposition leaders to prepare significant enough speeches of five or ten minutes....

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to express my disappointment at the way this is being handled by Government. As it happens, the Labour Party was happy to sign up to the original draft of the motion circulated to us by Government. We believe it is very important that all of us, on a cross-party basis, express solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the way that was originally intended. When that motion was not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We can disagree about the name of the package of measures the Government announced yesterday. However, I would like us to at least be able to agree that those in rental accommodation should be given some clarity about when the announcement will be made regarding whether the eviction ban will be extended. Will it happen before the St. Patrick's Day recess, for example? People deserve to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, the Taoiseach revealed to me in this House that the Government will make a decision on whether to extend the eviction moratorium in the next two to three weeks. The current moratorium will end on 31 March. By the Taoiseach's own account, the Government is giving itself until 15 March to make a decision. However, people across the country...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the purchase of €4.1 million carbon credits from Slovakia; his further views on the increase in greenhouse gas pollution in Ireland in the third quarter of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Resources (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the 75% loss of wetlands in Ireland in 300 years; his plans for the preservation of wetlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the need for a public information campaign in respect of the national response to the arrival of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland. [9028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has read reports of refugees and asylum seekers experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea due to inadequate catering services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9032/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on progress to give statutory recognition and protection to the designation of "counsellor"; if he will provide a timeline for the opening of the planned register for counsellors; and his views on the adequacy of existing and planned measures to regulate rogue crisis pregnancy agencies. [9099/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 230. To ask the Minister for Health his views on rogue crisis pregnancy agencies performing transvaginal ultrasounds in early pregnancy; and his plans to regulate the practice. [9100/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedge Cutting (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to remove the exemption which allows for the destruction of up to half a kilometre of hedgerows without assessment or special permissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9031/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [8206/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise two specific issues. In October, the Labour Party brought forward a motion calling for pay rises for workers in the community and voluntary sector, in line with Building Momentum. Indeed, the Fórsa national executive has backed a proposal for strike action in section 39 agencies funded by the HSE. At the weekend, the Minister for Health announced €81 million in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We welcome the establishment of the citizens' assembly on drug use, but I ask the Taoiseach about the status of the commitment to establish a citizens' assembly on the future of education. Is there a timeline for its establishment and will it examine both the future purpose of the education system and the issue of separation of Church and State within the education system? Second, building...