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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: If so, if they did not tell him anything about this, does he feel that he has been left in the dark?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Bicycles are the transport of the future. They are good for the planet, good for cities and towns and good for our health. Right now, far too many people in Ireland are reluctant to cycle. They feel it is not safe to do so. There is too little provision for cycling and too little commitment to ensure more safety of cyclists. While I welcome increased provision of cycle routes and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ..., is uniquely difficult because the early years of a child's life are central to his or her development, physically and emotionally. It is when they take their first steps and when they learn to feel safe and secure. It is a tragedy for them to learn that the Government has turned its back on them. Will the Taoiseach commit to passing our Housing (Homeless Families) Bill so that no...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...-round trolley crisis. Our overcrowded healthcare service has become unsuitable for both patients and workers. We hear harrowing stories from the INMO and from individuals on the front line, who feel they cannot provide adequate care in the circumstances. All workers deserve to work in a safe environment where they are supported to deliver the highest standard of care. It is no wonder...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...cliff edge from Saturday. It reads as if it is again an attempt to give cover to those Deputies on the Government benches, but also Independent Deputies, who backed the Government last week and are feeling the pressure for doing so in their constituencies, because they are now understood to have supported an indefensible decision to lift the eviction ban without seeing the necessary and...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...relating to temporary emergency generation in the context of ensuring we mitigate the security of supply risk for winter of 2023-2024 and subsequent years. However, we will be forgiven for feeling this is like Groundhog Day and that a similar approach was taken to the winter we are still coming through. This Bill will further assist with allowing for works at Shannonbridge and Tarbert...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to joining with so many others from across the State on Saturday afternoon for the Ireland for All solidarity march, which will show the extraordinary warmth and generosity people across the county feel for those who have come here. However, issues with the accommodation of people arriving here have arisen. As the Taoiseach acknowledged in his opening remarks, some are now being left...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...ban. Avoiding a deluge of evictions means bringing in emergency measures of the sort we call for in our motion. I have heard from many landlords in my constituency too. Many of them are what we might describe as accidental landlords who own just one property that they bought to equate to a pension for themselves. They feel under threat and unfairly scapegoated, but this is not in any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...plan due to be brought before Cabinet next week after the Dáil has risen. I reiterate the concern I expressed earlier in the delay in the publication of this climate action plan. Indeed, it feels like Groundhog Day because the sectoral emissions ceiling earlier this year were not published until the Dáil had risen for the summer recess. There seems to be almost a strategy of...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...group with a considerable number of supporters that launched some time ago a petition called SOS – Save Our Sea in Dublin Bay. The petition now has more than 20,000 signatures, which again shows the strength of feeling on this issue. The group was formed arising from concerns about water quality in the bay area. I have also worked with swimmers from the Half Moon Club in...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...a genuine issue across the country. Undoubtedly, the terrible war being waged by Russia against Ukraine has had a significant effect on energy prices across Europe and worldwide. However, it feels as if we are being held to ransom here in Ireland by energy giants and market speculators. While households here are resilient and looking to where they can cut costs, and cut energy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...grows as more and more people are detained on bogus charges. I met last week with representatives of the Irish-Iranian campaign group Support Equality and Freedom for Iran. They said to me how best they feel Ireland can use its diplomatic power to effect change. I ask that at every opportunity when the Taoiseach engages with other EU leaders, if he might: reinforce calls for new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...all her life, she voted for mediocre men and that just once, she would like the chance to vote for a mediocre woman. That is the reality. That is why we need quotas. I am sorry I have gone rather but I feel passionately about this. The citizens' assembly clearly endorsed the quota model rather than voluntary targets. Some comments on that would be welcome. I will go first to Ms Duffy...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...change. We believe there should be more emphasis on placing responsibility on the company or provider of the service and not on the consumer of the service. We want to restore trust to ensure people do not feel ripped off when they access services and ensure that companies are not allowed to discriminate against existing customers by offering cheaper rates that are only available to new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...owed an apology by the State and an acknowledgement of the wrong done to them because many mothers and women who had babies who were born with disabilities as a result of thalidomide are themselves feeling guilty. That is utterly unacceptable. It is very clear, from the programme last night and what we know, that the State bears responsibility. The State bore a particular...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...year once the short-term measures have faded away. When speaking to the media this morning, the Tánaiste effectively acknowledged that. With the cost-of-living crisis biting deeply, many people already feel they are on that treadmill and are running simply to stand still. They cannot see a future of prosperity for them or their children. This budget will not change that. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...for next year will, in truth, do little or nothing to transform this country or the lives of those who are struggling. I refer, for example, to the young people trapped in spiralling rent prices who feel forced to emigrate because they see no future here because they cannot aspire to ever owning their own homes. Once January arrives, it now looks like a mini-budget may well be necessary...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...providers including dynamic young nightclub owners and live music operators, and the domination by a small number of big providers. That is really unfortunate. The real concern is younger people feeling priced out of the city centre with rising rents pricing them out of living there and rising rents for businesses pricing them out of having the sort of creative nightlife we all would...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...of costs to parents? Parents are hearing, even from the Tánaiste just now, about reductions in cost that will come about but we need to know when and how that will happen. When will parents actually feel the benefit? When will their children be able to access affordable childcare?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...Ireland. There is a sense that while some people are doing well, for many and increasing numbers of households there is simply this paradox of plenty, where Exchequer figures are positive but they are not feeling it in their own pockets. What they are feeling is deeply pinched and squeezed by rising costs. That is why we are focusing on social wage elements and the need to ensure that...