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

Ivana Bacik: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [58884/22]

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

Ivana Bacik: There remains a chronic shortage of speech and language therapy and physiotherapy services in special schools, with the waiting time for assessment by community disability network teams now being counted in years rather than weeks or months. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the funds allocated in the HSE budget under the progressing disability services, PDS, programme will be used to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We all look forward to seeing the draft list of risks, which the Taoiseach said will be published in the coming weeks. I refer specifically to the enormous risks to Ireland and elsewhere posed by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which the Taoiseach has referred to. It poses an enormous humanitarian risk to so many people displaced by war as well as posing many economic, strategic...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment 2021-2022. [58886/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of crèche closures and the lack of childcare places. I have corresponded with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, on the specific issue of a crèche closure in my constituency. This closure is indicative of a much broader problem, namely, that there is a real shortage of childcare...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I raise the increasingly desperate plight of many at the sharp end of the housing disaster. I am not just speaking about the 11,000 people we now know are on the homeless list, including many thousands of children. That is bad and shocking enough as a figure, but there are many more living in precarious accommodation, facing eviction and who do not know where they will have to move to. Last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Of course the issue I raised relates to a fire hazard. That is absolutely right and I agree with the Taoiseach on that, but the fact people were living in such circumstances shows the desperation faced by many seeking accommodation who simply cannot find decent accommodation to rent in the city because of the enormous shortfall. It is an indication of the increasing desperation of many...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am very glad to have the opportunity to close this debate behalf of the Labour Party. I thank colleagues across the House for the strong support that has been shown today for this important motion. I commend my colleague Deputy Ó Ríordáin, who is also our justice spokesperson. Long before he was our justice spokesperson, however, he led for us on the policy of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [57734/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Ukraine will next meet. [57731/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach about childcare and if the Government will move more swiftly towards a public childcare model; affordable for parents, fair for professionals and guaranteeing equality for children. I am looking at the Taoiseach and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, because I did also acknowledge the steps the Minister...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Are we likely to see the vitally important reform of planning legislation come for the House before the end of term? We are all conscious that there are only two more sitting weeks. This is a vitally important Bill that has been promised by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. The Minister previously committed to bringing the Bill before the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 139. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [58887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any payment is outstanding or has been made by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to a company (details supplied) or any other entity in respect of any works carried out on or regarding the site located at No. 2 Grand Parade, Dublin 6, in preparation for the proposed Metrolink station and or metro rail line at Charlemont St; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planned reforms to planning laws will include measures to protect access to the countryside and to reform the law governing permissive routes and rights of way to protect public use of land for walkers. [59525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that sections 206-207 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 transfer sufficient powers to the planning authorities to preserve existing public rights of way; and if he is satisfied that the provisions have been used to a sufficient degree for the public good. [59527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to update the National Monuments Act 1930; his views on the need to create an enforcement mechanism to require the maintenance of national monuments and surrounding areas which are in private ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59528/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to review methods of assessment of special educational needs. [59097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that current additional needs assessments accurately identify children with special educational needs; and if she is satisfied that special educational needs of girls in particular are accurately identified. [59098/22]