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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (31 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the number and overall proportion of patients undergoing radical radiotherapy treatment who commenced treatment within 15 working days of being deemed ready to treat by the radiation oncologist, excluding palliative care patients in each month in each of the years 2018 to 2022. [4064/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (31 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Cancer Strategy 2022 implementation report will be published. [4065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 628. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant nurse oncologist posts each quarter across all hospitals in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [4066/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We all appreciate the immense work done by the staff in the community and voluntary sector in caring for so many across society as they support people in homelessness and addiction, and in staffing refuges and rape crisis centres. Yet, such workers are paid much less than equivalent staff employed directly by the State, despite many of them propping up many State services. In October last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: When is the state aid application going in?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is not. We are agreed on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In a few minutes, the Save our Forests - Save our Land coalition, which Labour is glad to support, will gather outside Leinster House to voice our opposition to the Coillte-Gresham House deal. It is a deal which we believe is wrong on many levels. I have already voiced my grave concerns about it in this House, as have my colleagues, Deputies Kelly and Sherlock. It will fundamentally be an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The inadequacy of the plans is baffling. It seems that the Government cannot see the wood for the trees, if I may say. Failures in the licensing system have made the large-scale planting of trees and woodlands an impossible endeavour for many farmers and nurseries. The delays are leading to many dropping out of the system. I have been told that approximately one third of those approved...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister has accused me of misrepresenting the Government's position but the reality, as he admitted himself, is that there is a forestry strategy which is not operational. It is not having any impact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The key problem is that it is not having an impact. We are hearing from those involved in forestry and nurseries, including farmers and environmentalists, that it is simply not operational. The Minister of State, Senator Hackett, told the Seanad earlier this week that the state aid application has not yet been submitted. The Minister said it himself. He plans to go to Brussels but has not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Coillte deal is not the answer. The Minister said that himself. His Government colleagues have been critical of it too.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the slow-down in the construction of social housing, and on the implications of this slowing-down for renters reliant on the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3749/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I ask for the Minister's views on the slowdown in the construction of social housing and the implications of this slowdown for renters reliant on the housing assistance payment, HAP, the repeated failure to meet housing targets for social homes for the past three years in a row and the implications this has for recipients of HAP in particular.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We all await those figures for quarter 4 with great interest. I agree with the Minister and I have raised many times the need to ramp up the tenant in situscheme, and I think there is cross-party agreement on that. However, listening to the figures that the Minister is giving and looking at the Housing Commission report today, it is hard to see the value of the targets being set by the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Listening again to the points about targets, the Minister acknowledged there has been under-delivery for years. The reality is that no matter what targets are set and what figures the Government gives, the experience of people who approach my office and the offices of other Members every day is that they simply cannot find homes, particularly people seeking help to find a social home. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work and status of the shared island unit. [3342/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: There have been a number of recent media reports about the treatment of staff at a college in south Dublin, the Spiritan-run Templeogue College. Last month, two dozen teachers raised concerns about a non-inclusive culture regarding LGBT+ issues and the taking down of a Pride flag in the student canteen. Clearly, we need to ensure staff and students from the LGBT community and minority...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [60876/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: When does the Taoiseach propose to bring in Deputy Brendan Howlin's public sector standards Bill to ensure that the necessary reforms to SIPO will be enacted? In that context, last week I raised with the Taoiseach the issue pertaining to Deputy Damien English, the Taoiseach's party colleague, who resigned from his ministerial post due to the revelations that he had submitted incorrect...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2023)

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