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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It soon will be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That concludes our public hearing. On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister for his constructive engagement with us and I thank his officials for attending. We will send him our interim report on constitutional change and, at the start of December, we will publish our final report on all 45 recommendations of the citizens' assembly. We will forward both to him in his role as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the nominating bodies and appointees to the early years service joint labour committee. [47749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the early learning and care services that are in receipt of the graduate premium for lead educators and the graduate premium for graduate managers; and the sum allocated to each service, in tabular form. [47748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to make public the list of signatories to the new core funding model; and the consequences for organisations that sign up to the scheme but do not pass on the benefit of a fee freeze to parents. [47750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a list of all special care units in operation in Ireland is maintained and published; and if the location and details of certain units are kept confidential for security reasons. [47756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 217. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of Health and Information Quality Authority inspection protocols of special care units; and if he will report on the standard criteria applied to such inspections. [47757/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We knew facing into this budget that we face an unprecedented series of crises – in the cost of living, in energy security and in housing, described as a disaster by our President. We knew that increasing numbers of households are facing stark choices between heating and eating and that up to half of all households are likely to be in energy poverty during the bleak winter ahead....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, budget 2023 was published after what seemed like the longest lead-in ever. With so many leaks, over so many weeks, we were led to believe that this would be a substantial package of measures designed to get struggling communities through this bleak winter and beyond. Unfortunately, that was not what we saw yesterday. What we saw was money spread so thinly that it will go...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party welcome any measures that will alleviate hardship for families and households over this winter. We agree that a combination of measures is necessary, but we have proposed three immediate actions the Government could have taken in this budget to alleviate hardship. I refer to a €9 per month public transport ticket to heavily subsidise public transport for all, a...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think that was because of Covid-----

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think that might have been in a very exceptional circumstance of Covid to take money out of the fund.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "if and when adequate notice is given of such a proposal, and provided that adequate time is provided in order to debate the matter, Dáil Éireann will consider whether to approve, pursuant to section 5(4) of the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019 (No. 18...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in Labour also called for this increase in the small benefit exemption from €500 to €1,000. We welcome a provision enabling an employer to provide an extra €500 in tax-free vouchers to staff. It is one way of ensuring that workers will get a pay rise. However, not enough has been done in this budget otherwise to ensure that workers get the pay rise they need, in...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: A cigarette break might be desired by many after listening to some of the debate. Any reduction in fees of this sort is welcome but it is clearly just a tokenistic measure. Anyone working in the night-time economy who is looking to develop arts and cultural spaces, creativity and trying to ensure a really vibrant future for live entertainment for music and nightlife will see this as far...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Oh, I am not stressed.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party support this resolution. We support it as a public health measure. The evidence is clear about the deterrent effect that this has on smoking. We can all agree that it is good to see fewer people smoking and to see that direction in public health practice.

Allocation of Time: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We, in the Labour Party, also have concerns around the final motion on the National Surplus (Exceptional Contingencies) Reserve Fund. Indeed, we wrote to the Ceann Comhairle this evening to express our objections to the proposal to consider this motion this evening without notice and without an opportunity for debate. We have also submitted an amendment to require adequate notice and...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.