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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (19 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of firms instructed by the State to defend slop-out and in-cell sanitation cases; the amount in fees paid to such firms for their services; and the number of such cases assigned to each firm, in tabular form. [18422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 687. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has made representations to ticket sales and distribution companies on fees charged to customers for sporting, music and other cultural events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17635/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to the enormous contribution of a Labour Party colleague, former Minister for Education Niamh Bhreathnach, who, sadly, died earlier this year but who, in her time as Minister, introduced pioneering reforms, notably the abolition of third level fees and the Breaking the Cycle programme, which she introduced in the 1990s. This programme would later be developed into the DEIS programme. As...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...housing that recognise the difficulties and discrimination still faced by so many women, in particular. It is not just parents who are being failed. While there has been a welcome reduction in fees, there is a huge problem now for childcare and early years professionals. I met one young early years professional last week who told me she is forced to emigrate to Brisbane in Australia...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and Youth the number of complaints received by Pobal in respect of reported breaches of core funding for both the underpayment of wages under the agreement, and the failure to implement a fee freeze for clients, in tabular form; the number of disputes which have been resolved for both the underpayment of wages under the agreement and failures to implement a fee freeze for clients; and the...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...of homelessness. We need more State action and urgent intervention to address the real and glaring problems with the childcare and early years education system. We need delivery of the promised reduction in fees for parents and a genuinely universal and publicly funded childcare system. We need the roll-out of free general practitioner, GP, care from the Department of Health,...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...lack appropriate school places, or any school places. Too many parents are unable to find an affordable home or a suitable childcare or early years place, with no sign of promised reductions in crèche fees and crèches closing. Too many workers remain on low and insecure pay or stuck in traffic jams without decent public transport options. As we face into winter, too many older...

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the constituency who are affected by defective construction in their buildings and homes. Many are already out of pocket because they have expended money on remediation works, either personally or through fees to their owner management companies, and we should not forget that many more who have not spent that money yet are living in danger. A home should be a safe place. Housing is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...system and to call for a change in policy to ensure we no longer have the postcode lottery that so often determines the availability of places and their affordability. High, exorbitant and rising fees are a huge issue for many parents. Several parents have come to me to say they simply cannot afford a childcare place even where there is one available. Let us remember Ireland has the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...towards building that model and the provision of core funding. I want to ask about one specific aspect. Last week, the Taoiseach said that the budget will support a reduction of 25% in childcare fees for parents. In reality, however, and certainly in Dublin, it looks as if the fee reduction parents are likely to see next year will not come close to 25%. Fees in Dublin are significantly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...difficult news. I know of friends, neighbours and constituents who are in a situation where two partners are both working for tech companies. They have massive mortgages and enormous childcare fees. They are locked into these commitments and are facing an uncertain future in which they see prospective job losses. I absolutely accept there has been enormous expansion in the sector,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and Youth his plans to make public the list of signatories to the new core funding model; and the consequences for organisations that sign up to the scheme but do not pass on the benefit of a fee freeze to parents. [47750/22]

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

Ivana Bacik: ...yesterday. Free GP care should have been extended to all children but that did not happen yesterday, which is a real shame. The measures introduced on childcare were equally underwhelming. The Government states it will fund a reduction up to 25% in weekly fees for those availing of the national childcare scheme, but the proposed reduction will not amount to that level of reduction for...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...could have taken in this budget to alleviate hardship. I refer to a €9 per month public transport ticket to heavily subsidise public transport for all, a €200 per month cap on childcare fees and access to free GP care for all children under 18. Those are the sort of measures that could have been adopted by the Government in the budget, but that were not. We believe they...

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

Ivana Bacik: A cigarette break might be desired by many after listening to some of the debate. Any reduction in fees of this sort is welcome but it is clearly just a tokenistic measure. Anyone working in the night-time economy who is looking to develop arts and cultural spaces, creativity and trying to ensure a really vibrant future for live entertainment for music and nightlife will see this as far...

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

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier about the rising costs of childcare. A constituent has contacted me because, despite staff seeing a very welcome pay increase at the crèche her children attend, a sizable fee increase has been imposed upon parents. The concern she and many constituents, and others throughout the country, have is that crèches and childcare facilities may have signed up to the new...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...to help struggling households and families. Those three measures include, first, to cap childcare costs for families. Every week I hear from constituents who cannot afford the sort of increases in fees for crèches that they are being charged, and from parents who simply cannot access crèche places at all. We are calling for a massive investment by Government in the national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...out that the system is failing staff, parents who lack affordable and sometimes any childcare provision, providers who cannot make ends meet and are faced with the dilemma of having to increase fees if they increase pay and ultimately children from a children's rights perspective. We are failing everyone involved. I have called for a "Donogh O'Malley moment", in that we would start to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Childcare is a massive issue for parents in every constituency. Ireland has some of the most expensive childcare costs in Europe and we need clarity on how it is proposed to reduce fees for parents, to improve pay and conditions for staff and to improve the availability of places for children. In Limerick on Monday, I visited two brilliant childcare and early years education services,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...that if that is indeed the optimal site, the optimal approach to acquiring that site for the building of the hospital is to acquire it freehold, to ensure it is either gifted or sold at a nominal fee to the State. That is why we renew our calls today, as we renewed them last night with the Minister, for the State to consider the compulsory purchase order, CPO, option. If this is the...