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

Ivana Bacik: -----from a false planning application, and who has quietly resigned as the Minister of State, with no further action?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 38. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [3344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility criteria for the proposed construction defects redress scheme. [3748/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On the issue of health in the context of the Cabinet committee, I raised earlier the unacceptable failures in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS. We have continued to see unacceptable conditions in our health service over the winter season, with thousands of people marching across the country at the weekend. There were especially big crowds in Limerick and Navan, which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [2119/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [2120/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications launched another new strategy in the past week. This one related to electric vehicles with a new charging infrastructure strategy that will see €100 million invested over three years. I have raised concerns with the Minister about this issue on a number of occasions because we are just seeing a far too slow delivery on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [60875/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The housing crisis, as we know, continues to worsen and Mike Allen warned on “News at One” of the growing shortage of accommodation. Last week, Threshold warned that the majority of tenants it had helped towards the end of 2022 were at risk of homelessness due to the landlord selling their property. When the eviction ban was being introduced, I repeatedly raised with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the proposed €200 million deal between Coillte and UK investment fund, Gresham House. It is incomprehensible to us in the Labour Party why a State body is going to do all the work while foreign investors will be able to reap financial profits. We have seen across other sectors, including housing, healthcare and education, our society suffering the consequences of an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I have written to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, and others over a number of months seeking an answer about the better co-ordination by the Government of services for those who come here seeking protection or refugee status, including those who come here from Ukraine. I am very concerned about today's report that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Can the Taoiseach say when?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his response but it does not sound as if he and the Government are bringing the necessary urgency to this. I am conscious, as I think we all are, that Dr. Susan Finnerty found her findings so stark that she published them as an interim report. There is an urgent need for action to address that report. As I said, it is over ten years since an expert group...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, I put several questions to the Taoiseach about ethical standards in Fine Gael, and I have just been sitting here, as we all have, listening to the exchanges between Fine Gael and Sinn Féin over dodgy donations and funny money, we might say. I know we are going to return to the issue later. I want to raise with the Taoiseach an issue that is very serious because of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the number of renters who have claimed the renter's credit to date. [2746/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland. [2121/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Protection (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host refugees in 2023; and his plans to ensure any shortfall in accommodation is made up. [2747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the maternity in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the need to require of pension providers that they disclose the portion of any pension fund available for investment here is made up of fossil fuel assets and that they provide an option to pension holders to opt for a fund which does not include fossil fuel; her Department’s role in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the policy preventing access to the working family payment for persons who are self-employed; and if she has plans to broaden access to the payment. [3348/23]