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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Northern Ireland Assembly elections will take place on Thursday. I had the pleasure of canvassing on Saturday in Belfast South with Matthew O'Toole and Elsie Trainor of the SDLP, along with Claire Hanna, the MP there. The concerns that so many people share in the North are about what will happen after the election takes place and, in particular, what approach the DUP, which is likely to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the British government and Prime Minister. [21059/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for reporting on his engagements with the President of the US. I commend him on his strong words condemning the recent Russian video purporting to show a nuclear attack on Ireland. I am conscious, as we all are, that the war in Ukraine was a significant backdrop to the Taoiseach's visit to the US and was the subject of many of his engagements. I also note his...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the President of the United States of America. [17880/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The homelessness figures published on Friday showed an increase of 23% in the past year. These are alarming figures. We know a major cause of homelessness is the lack of protection for renters against evictions and simply a lack of supply of sufficient homes for rental. In my constituency of Dublin Bay South, we have a particularly high proportion of households and individuals who are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: If I may, the Ceann Comhairle suggested a good compromise.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious we have had an exchange on the national maternity hospital issue, but the key question is why we do not see it moving into public ownership if it is, indeed, to be in public ownership in all but name, given the 299-year lease. That question has not been satisfactorily answered. Might we amend the Order of Business to take some time to tease out that question and debate why we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: All of us want decent, proper, effective healthcare for women, and particularly for women requiring access to reproductive healthcare, maternity care and gynaecological care. I am not questioning anyone's bona fides and I do not think it is helpful to do so but legitimate concerns remain around ownership, governance and control. Positive changes have been made over the years, largely as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We are all very conscious of the legacy of our schools and hospitals that have been funded by the State but remain in the ownership of religious orders or their successor or proxy companies. We are all very conscious of that. We need to do better with the new national maternity hospital and with the €1 billion of public money that is to be put into it. We need to ensure women, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----and to improve healthcare for women in this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is the other way around.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Why not simply move to State ownership?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The people have spoken.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Rights can be undone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Why is it not simply in public ownership?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I too want to raise the issue of the National Maternity Hospital. I welcome the decision by Cabinet last night to delay, as I understand it, by at least two weeks, the making of any final decision. I welcome the Minister's commitment to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, as we had asked. Indeed, I welcome the ongoing publication of documents on the HSE website. I read...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 67. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [21859/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: My amendment No. 51 is about the right to repair, and specifically around diagnosis, maintenance and repair of electronic equipment. The amendment, which I submitted for the Labour Party, forms the basis of a Bill we were preparing to bring forward, that we say is an integral part of any sort of circular economy approach. We are hopeful that the Minister of State might agree to it in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his response and for acknowledging the information and power imbalance between consumers and manufacturers that the right to repair principle seeks to address. As he said, it is a critical part of any circular economy approach. We had an exchange previously in the Dáil Chamber and the Minister of State referred then to ongoing developments at EU level...