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Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This amendment can be described as being in that spirit of ensuring the legislation will be as inclusive as possible and that all information an adopted person seeks will be supplied to him or her and there will not be anything missing from the list of items that may be sought.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think all of us share that frustration about the language. We will have an opportunity, I think, to debate this issue further when we come to the later group of amendments concerning the new mechanism for the Minister to authorise the agency or authority to conduct a review or trace where a person believes he or she has been the subject of an incorrect birth registration. I hope we can...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This is a large group of amendments, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said, and some of the amendments in it are mine - I think I am right in saying amendments Nos. 35 to 38, inclusive, 45 to 47, inclusive, and 49. However, the amendments that are mine in this group in fact relate really to my substantive amendment No. 59, which is on the mandatory information session, so it may be better to...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. I will reserve my fuller comments until then.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, am glad the amendment has been tabled and that it reflects a discussion we had on Committee Stage. We need to acknowledge where progress was made on Committee Stage and thank the Minister for taking on board comments made. Obviously, we will be critical where those comments have not been taken on board, but it is worth acknowledging where comments are taken on board and the...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, welcome the amendment and thank the Minister for acknowledging the debate on Committee Stage.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The amendment is welcome because so many adopted persons made the point to us that the legislation needs to be as inclusive as possible. We had a lengthy debate on that issue on Committee Stage and, in the same spirit of inclusivity, it is welcome to see the amendment.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As Deputy Funchion stated, this is an issue that came up extensively on Committee Stage. Indeed, we submitted an amendment to make a distinction between falsely or otherwise incorrectly. The Minister took that point on board. I, too, would welcome clarification on how amendment No. 2, tabled by the Minister, as well as his later amendments which I am delighted to see he has brought forward...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the amendment. As Deputy Funchion said, it reflects the discussion we had on Committee Stage to ensure the Bill will be as inclusive as possible. I very much welcome the fact that, as the Minister said, this provision will ensure that persons who were the subject of what he described as more informal adoption arrangements, in particular those effected outside of the State, will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [16209/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [17879/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [17878/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17875/22]

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We know the spike in the cost of living is hurting households throughout Ireland as inflation has surged to a 22-year high of 6.7% and looks set to continue its increase. We see the cost of fuel, food, housing and basic services is now out of control. Everyone is feeling the pinch, most of all those who are already struggling to make ends meet. The horrendous war in Ukraine has undoubtedly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I previously raised with the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste the urgent need for an increase in the national minimum wage to address the cost-of-living crisis confronting households. With inflation rising, it is clear Ireland needs a pay rise and that people need to see the pay in their pockets go further. The 30 cent increase in the minimum wage that came into effect in January has simply...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [16208/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I note the importance of the Shared Island dialogue. Indeed, we recognise the merits of this initiative. I note, as the Taoiseach said, that an important all-Ireland women's forum was held under the auspices of the National Women's Council in March, aiming to address the under-representation of women in politics on the island. I should say as Chair of the Joint Committee on Gender Equality...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest Shared Island dialogue initiatives. [17877/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I raise with the Taoiseach the issue of ongoing concerns about the independence, ownership and governance of the new national maternity hospital in light of recent reports by Jennifer Bray and by Justine McCarthy that the HSE board has approved the legal framework and constitution of the new hospital, yet two members of the board have dissented from that decision due to unresolved concerns....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is agreed.