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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (6 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (6 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide additional capacity for the study of occupational therapy; and if he has engaged with the Minister for Health on the matter. [3734/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Right through the election campaign, the Taoiseach and Government Ministers claimed that 40,000 homes would be built in 2024. We now know that this was a wildly exaggerated claim. In fact, the actual number built last year was almost 10,000 short of that figure. That 40,000 was a bogus figure. Earlier today, the Taoiseach rejected the suggestion from Opposition parties that he was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It was very constructive.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am happy to respond to that.

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

Ivana Bacik: We all appreciate just how ferocious this storm was. I join with the Taoiseach in expressing sympathy to the family of the young man, Kacper Dudek, so tragically killed. It is simply unacceptable, however, that we still have 18,000 homes, farms and businesses without power so many days on from the outbreak of the storm. It is clear that much more urgent action is necessary from the...

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

Ivana Bacik: Today at last and after an unnecessarily long break, we have arrived at the first Leaders' Questions session of this new Government term. I want to raise the emergency situation affecting communities all across this island, that is, the ongoing fallout from Storm Éowyn. At the outset, my thoughts and those of my Labour Party colleagues are with all those families and households that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1161. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to make a drug (details supplied) free; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1162. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to make a drug (details supplied) free. [2695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1163. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to reduce the cost of breast cancer and endocrine medication. [2696/25]

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I offer personal congratulations to the new Ministers. We wish them well in their portfolios. We need to see positive change delivered by this new Government. There is one very negative change: we see a reduction in the number of women in Cabinet from four to three. There are as many men named James as there are women in this incoming Cabinet. That is a negative change, and we do not see...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish Deputy Martin well as the presumptive incoming Taoiseach. Today will likely be a proud day for him, his family and his supporters, and I acknowledge that. I also wish Deputy Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach and incoming Tánaiste, well. Increasingly, this feels like Groundhog Day, or groundhog week, not just with Deputies Martin and Harris swapping roles and not just with...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am very glad that we have reached agreement today and the Chief Whip read out an agreed form of words acknowledging what was a self-evident truth, namely, that a TD could not be in government and in opposition at the same time. That was the core democratic principle that we, across the Opposition, united on yesterday. The situation in the Dáil yesterday was deeply regrettable but it...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: As Trump might say, "Roads, baby, roads." That is what we are going to see from this Government.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Members of the Government have buried their heads in the sand when it comes to the impact of data centres and left the door wide open for polluting LNG. It seems the private sector will continue to be relied on to deliver essential public services like childcare while workers' rights are only getting derisory treatment. The Government has abandoned initiatives such as drug policy reform and...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: To compound the discomfort that so many of us feel, the Lowry leg of the stool was, until today, intent upon pulling off an old-style political trick by setting up in government, having secured Ministries and commitments, and also in opposition, making a mockery of our democratic process. Bertie may not be back but grubby deals are, and this looks like such a deal. I am glad that we have...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: As we always have, we in the Labour Party will work constructively from opposition with those who share our vision to achieve the change that we believe in over the course of this Government. We will hold the Government to account, fiercely and fairly, with integrity and transparency, as we have always done. I look forward to the challenge ahead.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, I welcome your ruling this morning. I welcome the statement by the Government Chief Whip this morning and, in particular, the acknowledgement by the Government that there is a need to ensure clarification in differentiating between Members of the Opposition and the Government. That is the core democratic principle that we, across the Opposition parties and groups, united...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on funding to Education and Training Boards; and if she will make a statement on recruitment and teaching hours. [1166/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (22 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 of 15 May 2024 and 372 and 374 of 24 September 2024, when the Pobal early learning and childcare data website will be updated to include data gathered in relation to the 2023-2024 programme year; if he will provide details of what fee levels were charged by each...