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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday, namely, the crisis in special education. Last Friday, I joined a group of 50 parents, children and family members who had to resort to a 24-hour sleep-out in front of the Department of Education in Dublin in order to highlight the crisis they are experiencing. I heard harrowing stories of experiences from desperate parents...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and saying so clearly that there is no freeze on SNAs. That is at odds with the experiences reported to us by principals. I would welcome a more detailed written response from the Taoiseach on that because we have been told there is a directive from the Department that amounts to an obstacle or blockage to the hiring by principals of the SNAs that are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will next meet. [5756/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return to the issue of the recruitment of special needs assistants raised with the Taoiseach by my colleague, Deputy Eoghan Kenny, earlier. Budget 2024 provided for an extra 1,216 SNAs in the current school year. Are all those SNAs in place? Will the increase of 1,600 SNAs announced in the budget for this year in fact take effect? We are all still hearing of children who have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has acknowledged the system is not delivering for children with additional needs who require particular provision in the school system. Indeed, I joined a group of over 50 parents, and some children and grandparents, who resorted to a 24-hour sleepout last Friday in front of the Department of Education. I heard some harrowing stories there from parents and grandparents,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the way the new disability unit within his Department will function. [7612/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Work and job quality is one of the dimensions to the well-being framework. My party would have liked to see stronger commitments on workers' rights in the programme for Government. I want to raise a number of concerns around workers' rights with the Taoiseach. We introduced a Labour Party Bill to provide for reproductive healthcare leave for women experiencing early pregnancy loss in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [7362/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I raised with the Taoiseach last week my concern and that of my party about Government proposals to dismantle the triple lock. I emphasise again we in the Labour Party would oppose any attempt to dismantle or undermine the triple lock. Given President Trump's appalling attempts to humiliate Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, which we saw last Friday, it is all the more important now we stand in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----that the mission must be in keeping with the spirit of the UN Charter, but if that is the case, why rule out the need for UN sanction?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, we indicated that we would come back.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This is completely out of order.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach had rejected my original proposal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I think we can agree on one thing: climate change is existential. The threat of climate change is clearly existential. Ach níl an Rialtas ag déanamh gach iarracht. The Government is not making every effort; clearly not. The trajectory of this Government is on course to miss climate targets, and to say otherwise flies in the face of the evidence that is being presented to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: That is €26 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the climate crisis with the Taoiseach. Today, we see the devastating report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Climate Change Advisory Council. They tell us that on its current trajectory, the Government will clearly miss our legally binding 2030 climate targets. We all know the consequences of that failure will be enormous. That is set out in the report:...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 178. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Action, Environment and Energy will next meet. [7613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of individuals in the prison population living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; the supports that they are provided with by the prison service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9127/25]