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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is the conditionality that is the difference.

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to introduce the Labour Party Living Wage Bill 2022. I propose to share time with my colleague, Deputy Nash. For many years, the Labour Party has campaigned for the introduction of a living wage in Ireland. To do so effectively requires a legislative framework and for that reason we have introduced this Bill. It could...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of staff allocated to access or disabilities offices to support students with disabilities in each of the further and higher education providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of employing one dedicated full-time access or disability support staff member in each of the further and higher education providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of expanding the SUSI grant to students registered with disabilities services studying on a part-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23710/22]

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I welcome the opportunity to speak today to mark Europe Day. It is a particularly auspicious date as today we also mark 50 years since the referendum to join the then European Economic Community was held and passed in Ireland. Since then the EU has driven social and economic change across Ireland, for the most part for the better. In particular, the equal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We all share the view the Taoiseach expressed yesterday that it is now incumbent, following the elections, that political parties in Northern Ireland would form a functioning Executive. There are seriously worrying developments, with the DUP demanding the removal and replacement of the protocol, it appears, before it returns to the Executive and with reports stating that the British Foreign...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [22895/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [21060/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to raise the issue of the long delays in the roll-out of free GP care for children. In 2015, funding was secured for the extension of free GP care to all children under 12 but this was not rolled out. Again in 2020, the then Minister, Deputy Harris, announced free GP care for children aged 12 and under on a phased basis, with six- and seven-year-olds first. In the most recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I also raise the issue of better services for children with educational needs, in particular for children with autism. I was glad to join the Families United for Services and Support protest outside the Dáil last Friday. I heard some powerful testimonies from parents and from young adults who had been failed by a system that simply could not provide them with the supports they needed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [21856/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am seeking clarity on the issues and I am certainly not questioning the Taoiseach's bona fides. All of us want to see a new, state of the art, modern National Maternity Hospital but we want to see it done right. We do not want to see the mistakes of the past repeated whereby the State has poured millions of euro into maintaining publicly funded hospitals and schools on land that remains...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We protested in 2016.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We have consistently raised this for five years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----we believe the hospital must be built on publicly-owned land. Without that freehold public ownership, our concerns about control and governance remain. They are concerns that arise from any close reading of the text of the documents that have been published. They are around the €850,000 penalty rent clause, the right of the landlord to appoint directors, the right of those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----then why not put the matter beyond legal doubt and place the site in public ownership? Seek that the site be gifted to the State or to be sold at a nominal fee to the State, as was the original plan. Why, back in 2017, did the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, decide to proceed with this convoluted legal arrangement, rather than insisting then, as the Labour Party said he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am asking about this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Developments over recent days have just compounded our concerns about the proposed new national maternity hospital. Our concerns persist. They are valid and legitimate concerns that remain around the ownership, control and governance of the proposed hospital. The core question for the Labour Party remains that of ownership. It is freehold ownership. We are talking about ownership in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 151. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. [22898/22]