Results 2,541-2,560 of 11,403 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

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

Ivana Bacik: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of his Department in the Transport Working Group review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; if he can provide an update on when its proposals will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the adequacy of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger scheme in particular. [61005/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reviews (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his Department’s progress reviewing the disabled drivers and disabled passenger scheme as part of the Mid-Term Review of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021. [61004/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rights of Way (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role of his Department in maintaining public rights of way for the purpose of recreational walkers.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60987/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the concerns raised by organisations (details supplied) in respect of the effect of a lack of housing on the delivery of education services. [60149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the shortage of teaching staff in Ireland. [60150/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the effect on teaching recruitment of the criteria of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of employment permits for non-EEA nationals; her views on the online advertising requirement for vacant education posts required by the Employment Permits Act 2006; and if she has made representations to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to introduce increased training for teachers to promote awareness of dyspraxia in the classroom; if she plans to increase supports for dyspraxia pupils; and her views on the need to transition to an evidence-of-need approach to the allocation of accommodations from the evidence-of-deficit approach which is currently in place....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to financially assist persons who have anaphylactic food allergies to support them to purchase foods that are safe for their consumption, in view of the cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of mobility supports for persons with a disability and on the adequacy of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger scheme in particular. [61006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy. [61008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Land Issues (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the need to provide for orderly and lawful methods of ensuring public access to recreational lands that are held in private ownership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60989/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 579. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to make more timely dyspraxia assessment services. [60390/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 703. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of mobility supports for persons with a disability. [61005/22]

Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I welcome the Bill. I commend the Minister of State on all the work that has been done on its provisions and on the engagement and consultation with the different groups involved. In my role as vice chair of the women's caucus, I am appreciative of the consultation with our members. We had long expressed a desire to see provision made for maternity protection...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uachtarán. It is my honour, on behalf of the Labour Party, to welcome her here to address our Oireachtas. I express our appreciation for her warm and optimistic words by way of address to us today. I also thank her for not only quoting our iconic first woman President, Mary Robinson, but also that iconic band the Saw Doctors. We all appreciated her quoting...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uachtarán. It is my honour, on behalf of the Labour Party, to welcome her here to address our Oireachtas. I express our appreciation for her warm and optimistic words by way of address to us today. I also thank her for not only quoting our iconic first woman President, Mary Robinson, but also that iconic band the Saw Doctors. We all appreciated her quoting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: At the Taoiseach's recent meeting with the US congressional delegation, were the ongoing human rights abuses in Iran raised and, in particular, was there agreement on international action to be taken against the Iranian regime on the basis of its dreadful ill-treatment of protesters there? On that note, will the forthcoming proposal to reopen the Irish Embassy in Tehran be reviewed? This...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the recent US congressional delegation. [58888/22]