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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will task JobsIreland and the Intreo service with supporting Ukrainian refugees and others in the international protection system in assisting them in securing skills appropriate employment opportunities that matches their educational and work experience, knowledge and expertise, or if she has plans to pilot such a...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to share time with my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith. I thank the Ministers, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Coveney and O'Gorman, for updating us on the Government's response to Russian war of brutal aggression on a peaceful democratic country. I will start by commending the Government on the generosity of spirit that it and the Irish people have shown in their approach in...

Living Wage Bill 2022: First Stage (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the determination, declaration and review of a national minimum hourly rate of pay for employees so as to arrive at and thereafter preserve an hourly rate that represents a living income; and to provide for related matters. It is timely that I seek to introduce this Bill today, because last...

Living Wage Bill 2022: First Stage (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I outlined yesterday the ongoing concerns the Labour Party has regarding the ownership, governance and control of the proposed new national maternity hospital. We welcomed the publication of certain relevant documents on the HSE website and the Government delaying the decision in this regard. Having listened to the exchanges this morning, however, it seems the Government is not proposing to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will designate retail pharmacy as a critical skills shortage in Ireland. [22517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of the household benefits package to the State from 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pharmacy Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for a new pathway for experienced pharmacy technicians to become fully qualified; and if he envisages the introduction of part-time qualification courses. [22518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for an increase in the number of Irish university places for pharmacy. [22519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service that are being held purely on remand for between one and two years and two years or more. [22521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines are given to individual prisons in the drawing up of regime management Plans; and, if so, if those guidelines include reference to the need to ensure effective sentence management with a view to rehabilitation and prevention of re-offending. [22522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will be publishing the completed Office of the Inspector of Prisons reports into the Midlands Prison, Loughan House, Castlerea Prison and the Dóchas centre. [22523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 242. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the position regarding the shortage of retail pharmacists in Ireland; if he has heard reports that some pharmacies face closure and reduced services as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated cancer centres that have an established, designated service to address the psycho-social needs of patients with cancer and their families to date in tabular form; the number of positions across the designed centres that have been funded to date versus the target number; and the number of the funded positions that have been filled to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the progress of the National Lymphoedema Clinical Guidelines. [22525/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris. Before we begin, members now have the option of being physically present or may join via Microsoft Teams from their Leinster House offices but may not participate in the meeting from outside the parliamentary precincts. We know the protocol for Teams. To limit the risk of spreading...