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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Dialogue (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [18694/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 55. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [18695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children looking for placements in special schools in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W and 8 respectively, in May in each of the years 2020,2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [29617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children looking for placements in special classes in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W and 8 respectively, in May in each of the years 2020,2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [29618/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new, targeted measures that have been introduced since the publication of the 2023 Funding the Future – Options Paper on the Cost of Higher Education to directly reduce the financial burden of graduate entry medicine tuition fees for socio-economically disadvantaged students; and if his Department considers general supports such as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department holds or has requested data on the socio-economic background of applicants and entrants to graduate entry medicine programmes over the past five years; and if so, to publish a breakdown, by income decile or deprivation index, to allow analysis of equity in access. [29045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a formal mechanism within his Department to monitor socio-economic equity in access to graduate entry medicine programmes; and if not, whether he intends to establish one in light of consistent Higher Education Authority data showing the underrepresentation of disadvantaged students in medical education. [29046/25]

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I commend my colleague, Deputy Ged Nash, on bringing forward this important Bill. We are all aware of the spike in the cost of living. In four years, the cost of a basket of groceries has risen by more than 35%. This is having a huge impact on families and households. Organisations like Barnardos report that parents are forgoing medicines to put food on their children's plates. We are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise my concerns about the future of Irish rivers, in particular in the context of a plan apparently being put forward by the Fianna Fáil housing Department to redesignate a large number of rivers as heavily modified water bodies. I refer to rivers like the Boyne, the Barrow, the Corrib, the Dodder, the Liffey, the Lee and the Shannon. Concerns have been raised by Friends of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all of those across the House who supported Labour's important motion on Gaza today and I thank the Government for not opposing it. I look forward to working with the Government and the Opposition to bring about an end to the suffering and genocide being perpetrated upon the people of Gaza. Ireland has shown leadership but we can do more. We want to work constructively and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Of course, the answer is supply. We all acknowledge that but the issue is that the Government is not doing anything to bring forward supply or to increase the delivery of homes. I watched the Minister for housing give an interview last night. I heard no new ideas to address the situation facing the family I have described, a family who are in the same situation as far too many others....

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Israel is perpetrating a genocide; a genocide upon the people of Gaza. This motion recognises that. As we watch in horror the new atrocities being committed upon Palestinian civilians each day, there are more children and babies killed and injured and starving before our eyes and families being wiped out like the family of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar. We must do more and we can and must show...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to you Lucia and the O'Farrell family, Jim, Gemma, Pia, Amy and Hannah, for your unwavering quest for justice for your son and brother, Shane. You have fought so insistently and so strongly for so long. Shane's life was cut short so cruelly 14 years ago on 2 August 2011 and I know from meeting with you so many times over the years just how much your grief and sorrow at his...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It was Deputy Byrne.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: In the context of trade and the proposed CETA agreement, I understand the Cabinet was to approve an arbitration amendment Bill today due to serious concerns about the investment court system proposed in CETA. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the legislation was approved today? If so, when will the draft heads of Bill be published? I also want to ask about concerns that the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [15144/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [13747/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the report on the engagement with the US President and, indeed, on the issue of Gaza. I note that he raise that with the US President. The Palestinian ambassador and Palestinian representatives specifically asked that Ireland would use all diplomatic means at its disposal, including our connection with the US, to raise the need for peace and for a ceasefire for the...