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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach again referred to the revised climate action plan due to be brought before Cabinet next week after the Dáil has risen. I reiterate the concern I expressed earlier in the delay in the publication of this climate action plan. Indeed, it feels like Groundhog Day because the sectoral emissions ceiling earlier this year were not published until the Dáil had risen for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We heard today the Cabinet will not approve the updated climate action plan before the Dáil rises for Christmas. I understand the plan is to go to next week’s Cabinet meeting just before Christmas. That means we in opposition will not have the opportunity to scrutinise the plan in a Dáil debate. It means yet another delay in publishing much-needed plans to tackle the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There is more in the Bill than that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Even during a cold snap.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I already raised on Leaders' Questions our concerns about the rushing through of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill. These concerns were set out in our letter, sent by my colleague Senator Rebecca Moynihan, to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, on 1 December. I want to raise it again and our representative on the Business Committee also raised the concerns about the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We will support any measures that will see the delivery of housing. However, the difficulty for many people is that they are not seeing that outcome. They are hearing the Government listing off plans in progress, preparation being made or issues that will deliver on momentum, but they are not actually seeing the delivery of affordable homes for themselves or their children, friends and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: At the risk of another Elvis moment, I wish the Taoiseach well in our last engagement on Leaders' Questions. I wish him well in whatever his future role may be. The Taoiseach may wish to indicate at this point in what role he will be returning to the Dáil in the new year. Suspicious minds - Members can see what I did there - are suggesting that it will be in a new role as Minister for...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his very generous closing remarks and, indeed, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, for his very comprehensive response earlier. I absolutely agree with the Minister of State. I would be delighted to move forward with this Bill in a spirit of collaboration as he and the Minister have suggested. Indeed, I already indicated to the Minister that I will take...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Sure.

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Try it Minister.

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister for being here to take the Bill. I appreciate his having given me a commitment in October on the floor of the House on the need for year-round water quality monitoring. That is something I have sought for a long time. I will start by acknowledging his commitment to that and asking if we might have a timeline for when...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: All of us will want to send our thoughts and sympathies to the families of the four-year-old child in north Dublin and the five-year-old child in Belfast who died from strep A in recent days. All of us will be thinking of their families, communities and young classmates who have suffered such devastating news of this terrible loss. There are huge levels of fear, particularly among parents...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh ár gcuairteoirí freisin. Last week, I raised some stories about the human face of the housing crisis. They were stories about people at the sharp end of the housing crisis such as the 27 renters who were renting premises within a stone's throw of where I live in the south city centre off Camden Street that was not suitable for residential accommodation....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for the response. Labour has a proud record of seeking to deliver change to improve conditions for people and ensure we can deliver constructive ways to addresses crises that arise, particularly the housing crisis. What we sought to do with the HAP, about which he will be well aware, was to replace rent supplement, which had become a poverty trap, and to ensure a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I have a practical question for the Taoiseach on the housing crisis. Last week, I asked about the tenant in situ scheme, which enables local authorities to take into State ownership homes that have been put up for sale and which would otherwise leave a tenant or family at risk of homelessness. I specifically asked if the Government could legislate to enable the Residential Tenancies Board,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is a practical way to run the scheme.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for that engagement. However, I was in London to meet with Keir Starmer and other colleagues from our sister party, the British Labour Party, as well as with the Irish ambassador, Martin Fraser. While we were there, a report was published by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the charity, Save the Children, that made a recommendation central to this point of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Maybe that is what we need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Labour Party reiterates its support for the call for more time on Report Stage to debate the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill. It would be sensible to adjourn the debate rather than to conclude the debate after two hours today, and I note the Taoiseach's comments that the whips should co-ordinate on that matter. A substantial number of amendments have been...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Government body that is responsible for the maintenance of public rights of way not created under the Planning and Development Act 2000. [60988/22]