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Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This Bill and the amendments from the Seanad give us an opportunity to address that bigger issue of the Land Development Agency. We in the Labour Party certainly supported the Land Development Agency in principle. We think it is a vital vehicle to deliver homes at scale, affordable homes that we badly need. However, as Deputies Ó Broin and Boyd Barrett have pointed out, there are real...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Education is the great liberator, but that is if you can get an education. In Ireland in 2024, as we have learned today, 44 pupils across the country are being taught at home because there is no school place available for them. A further 150 young people are receiving home tuition because of anxiety or mental health issues but also in many cases because there are just not enough staff in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Oh shut up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Apologies, a Cheann Comhairle, but I have really had enough of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his constructive response. A Cheann Comhairle, I apologise for my language earlier but I am sick of taking insults and abuse on cycling from Deputies who believe that God above is in charge of the weather and who have no record of taking the climate crisis seriously. I have no time for that nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I have no time for that nonsense when we are----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, I want to address the Taoiseach's response to me. Government policy is taking teachers for granted, notwithstanding his response. We still have some of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in Europe. The Government promised a citizens' assembly on the future of education which seems to have been quietly dropped. We want to know when the Taoiseach will address the teacher...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith who has led for us on this important motion. As Deputy Smith has said, this is the last Labour Party Private Member's motion in the lifetime of this Dáil. It might even be last Private Member's motion. In any case we thought it was vitally important we would put it down on the issue of healthcare and especially healthcare staffing. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Taoiseach's comments this morning that he is looking for a pathway to progress the occupied territories Bill. That is welcome. I also note, however, that he said it will be challenging to see it passed before the election, whenever that will be. On this side of the House, I think we would all be willing to facilitate the speedy passing of the Bill, given the ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate for the Dublin Bay Bill 2021. [42821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of work to develop a new migrant integration strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43220/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 754. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a crèche at the new national children’s hospital. [42822/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Next week, the Labour Party will table a motion on the crisis in healthcare for patients and staff. Throughout the country, trade unions representing healthcare workers are holding lunchtime protests because the new de facto recruitment embargo is leaving vital positions unfilled and, therefore, putting patient safety at risk. It is taking up to a year to fill vacancies and when someone...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of courses that have been cancelled by Solas in 2024 to date that were offered in 2023; how many in total were offered in 2023 and 2024 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many adult education tutors were employed in 2023 and 2024 respectively; the amount spent on teaching hours in ETBs in 2023 and 2024; if there has been a reduction in the number of funded hours for adult education and a reduction in the number of courses offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been reduction in funding from Solas to ETBs; if less funding from the NTF is being provided to fund courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42132/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We are all aware of the terrible impact on children of long waiting lists, particularly for those with scoliosis and spina bifida. As we head into flu season, all of us are thinking about healthcare and the health of our children, and we all know how much we need a new national children's hospital. Last week, the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and members of the board of the...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: In any discussion of child protection, we must think first of survivors and victims of childhood abuse. Their needs and rights must be front and centre. Child protection procedures are in place to protect children. That may sound self-evident but it can sometimes be lost in translation. In my previous life as a practising lawyer, I had the experience of representing survivors of abuse in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is some weeks since the budget but those locked out of securing housing are realising how little it does for them because house prices and rents are still going up and availability is not keeping pace with demand for homes. I know the Taoiseach will agree on this because we are all so aware of the chronic housing shortage and the impact it is having on so many people and communities. The...