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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to promote the use of solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52561/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Risk Management (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered introducing legislation to regulate new developments which pose a risk of flooding to compel developers to build catchment pools to mitigate flooding risks (details supplied). [52034/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a review of planning regulations as they pertain to solar panels; and the timeline for the completion of same. [52562/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to put in place an exemption for schools looking to install solar panels on their buildings; and if costs for obtaining planning permission to install solar on educational and community buildings will be waived or discounted. [52563/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 425. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a system of prioritisation in place for the processing of passport applications and renewals; if so, if he will provide details of the criteria used to prioritise applications; if it is policy that applicants who are waiting the longest should receive absolute priority over others; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the National Referral Mechanism; and if it will be inclusive of all suspected trafficking victims regardless of nationality and immigration status. [52036/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 747. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful citizen applicants who did not complete and return their declaration of citizenship in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [52559/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 748. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reported issues experienced by Irish residence permit applicants in completing payment for their IRP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52560/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 749. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is anticipated that her Department’s regularisation scheme will increase processing delays for citizenship and IRP applications; and the steps that are being taken to mitigate this risk. [52564/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop a national ambition to reduce pregnancy and infant loss; if he will establish a committee tasked with examining stillbirth and neonatal death in Ireland with a view to producing recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 793. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to run an awareness campaign to inform pregnant women and persons of the risk of stillbirth and the importance of foetal movement during the third-trimester. [52033/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 794. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to provide additional self-isolation supports for Roma families through the pandemic following the closure of the Covid-19 response for vulnerable people service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52035/21]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank both the witnesses. Their opening statements were very helpful, succinct and concise. They have really brought clarity to bear on the provisions in the scheme before us. It was refreshing to listen to them. I was involved as a Senator in the previous Oireachtas in seeking to achieve a workable framework to allow adopted people to access their information. We kept coming up against...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I have a quick question for both witnesses. Listening to this discussion, it feels like we have been in a somewhat parallel universe on this for some time. We have been told for so long we simply cannot legislate to give unfettered access rights to information, despite many of us arguing for years that I. O'T. v. B. had been misinterpreted, over-interpreted and so on. The witnesses are...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank our two witnesses. I hope the committee can hear me, as there is some background noise with bells ringing in Leinster House. I refer back to the earlier session we had with Dr. Fred Logue and Mr. Simon McGarr to ask whether the witnesses had the opportunity to hear their testimony and the discussion we had. They put forward a clear and succinct account informing us that the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their engagement. From listening to the other questions, there still seems to be a difference of views. We heard clear testimony from our earlier witnesses that some of the provisions in the proposed legislation, such as the proposed age limits in heads 3 and 5 and the mandatory information session, were incompatible with GDPR rights and were too cumbersome a...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: One last observation is that from an objective reading it seems requirements like the mandatory information session are cumbersome and pose a practical obstacle to the accessing of information. Having listened to the earlier witnesses, it seems hard to justify such requirements or to see how they could be justified under GDPR, which of course takes priority over the Constitution. That is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank our guests for their clarity. I agree entirely about the misinterpretation of the I. O'T v. B case but, unfortunately, every time we, as legislators, have raised this matter, it has been brought back against us, if you like. The alleged need to balance constitutional rights has been raised. I again thank our guests again for their clarity. Does Mr. McGarr wish to contribute again?

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I will continue the debate on the Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021, which we commenced yesterday. I believe I had just moved the adjournment of the debate and so had not yet had the chance to say that the Labour Party is happy to support this Bill. This Bill provides for amendments that might be described as somewhat technical but which are nonetheless important. They give...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I raise an issue relevant to the climate crisis and our biodiversity emergency. It is about water quality in Dublin Bay, in particular. Will the Government provide a timetable for the introduction of an amendment to Statutory Instrument 79 of 2008, the bathing water quality regulations? On foot of a meeting I had with a great organisation, SOS Dublin Bay, we ask that an amendment be...