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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Ms Joyce very much. That is a very strong point on which to finish. It is good to finish on the local politics level as well. I will draw our meeting to a close. I thank my colleagues for all the great engagement. Our guests can see how committed we are to ensuring that the recommendations of the citizens' assembly are implemented as our work draws to a close. On behalf of the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for outlining the developments at the meeting of the European political community on 6 October. We know the meeting this week of European leaders, on 20 and 21 October, comes at a pivotal moment in the plans for tackling the energy emergency and cost-of-living crisis, as well as the ongoing response of Europe to Russia's brutal war against the people of Ukraine. What...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The "Prime Time" special on O'Connell Street last night revealed the reality of what so many of us already know, which is that we have allowed the main street of our capital city to fall into decline. We also know, however, that policing is a problem across the city centre and not just on O'Connell Street. Indeed, in my area, in the south inner-city, many constituents have expressed serious...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [51661/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [51663/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, I raised the tenant in situscheme with the Taoiseach. Will NESC and the Government look at how to strengthen that scheme as part of the package of measures, including the eviction ban, that will be necessary to keep people out of homelessness and to secure homes for families and individuals into the future? Currently, the tenant in situscheme has too much red tape and there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I asked about the thalidomide issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There was considerable controversy during summer in agreeing sectoral emission targets for the agriculture sector in particular. My colleague Deputy Sherlock called on the Government to convene a citizens' assembly on the future of agriculture and food production in Ireland. Would the Taoiseach and the Government agree with such an approach? It would enable a good conversation to take...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I raise the terrible situation for women and girls in Iran. For nearly five weeks now, the Iranian regime has been using particularly brutal violence against its own citizens following the brutal killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on 16 September by the so-called morality police. We have seen the start of a new episode in a long and dark chapter of Iran's history. We have seen hundreds of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----of the Iranian regime. I ask the Taoiseach to cut diplomatic ties with Iran, expel the Iranian ambassador-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----and take significant action internationally against the Iranian regime.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly. [49900/22]

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Labour welcomes this motion and I commend Deputy O’Rourke and his colleagues on bringing it forward. The principle is irrefutable: no one should be left unable to heat their home or run their fridge or other appliances because they cannot afford to pay. If there is consensus on that matter as we enter into this bleak winter ahead, then the Government has the task of examining every...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [49903/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is welcome to hear the Taoiseach had constructive meetings yesterday. At the recent Ireland's Future event, in which I was glad to participate, concern was expressed by all present about the vacuum in Northern Irish politics with the continued failure of restoration of the institutions of the Executive and the assembly and the looming deadline of 28 October set by the British Government....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [49904/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, the Dáil debated the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022. It is welcome that it will be amended to provide for domestic violence leave, but the Labour Party is asking that it also be amended to provide for reproductive health-related leave. We introduced a Bill in the Seanad last year which would provide for paid leave of up to 20 days for women who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier today, I raised with the Taoiseach the plight of owners in the Carrickmines Green development. Returning to that subject, when is it planned to introduce the redress scheme for homeowners? I think the Taoiseach said it would be done before Christmas. Does this mean that we will not see provision being made for such a scheme in the Finance Bill, which is to be introduced on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [49899/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise the plight of householders in the Carrickmines multi-unit development in south County Dublin. As we know, after the financial crash the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, took over the estate and became the developer through its appointed receiver. A range of defects became apparent in the development and while some remedial works were carried out, in 2017 the owners'...