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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 132: In page 18, lines 38 and 39, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 133: In page 19, lines 1 and 2, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 135: In page 19, lines 5 and 6, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 199 is the substantive amendment I seek to make. It is to give effect to the recommendation we made in the pre-legislative scrutiny report to replace the mandatory information session with a requirement that the authority sends a registered post, or other recorded delivery, letter to applicants setting out the relevant information. I apologise because I had to leave in the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful the Minister did that.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We are agreed that there have been lots of variations of this and that the understanding of how best to balance rights has changed and developed. The problem remains that the mandatory information session strikes many adopted persons as an unduly paternalistic approach. It is still balanced too much on that side. It harks back to when the view was taken that we could not give people access...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on behalf of the Labour Party. The recent report of Amnesty International that we are debating was unequivocal in its findings as to the extent of land seizures, unlawful killings, restrictions on movement, denial of citizenship of Palestinians and other breaches of...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we debate this Bill, the people of Ukraine are suffering the brutal invasion and bombardment by Russian forces. We are seeing the deaths of children and civilians. That makes us all reflect on the importance and privilege of being able to debate legislation in a debating chamber in a parliament in a peaceful democratic republic. We must all reassert the true value of democracy. The war...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I confirm I am on the Leinster House campus. I thank the Minister for the engagement on these amendments. There was a clearly expressed desire by survivors to see a specific outline of the sorts of records, data and information covered in the legislation. I welcome the Minister engaging on this and the opportunity to come back on Report Stage on these points, given there are so many...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: My amendment No. 104 is in this grouping and it seeks to capture, as Deputy Cairns said, the lived experiences of survivors. As others have done, I pay tribute to the many survivors who have taken the time to email or contact us to describe their experiences and express their desire to see this legislation through and effectively give them a right to information. We are trying effectively...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 104.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: They are all grouped.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I apologise if I am cutting in. I am happy to propose my amendment No. 104.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Irish Water and the Environmental Protection Agency since he assumed office in respect of the level of sewerage that is pumped into Dublin Bay; and the steps that can be taken to address this and to ensure adequate water quality for swimmers. [11672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air and Water Pollution (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read reports that reduced activity during initial Covid-19 lockdowns prevented more than 800 air pollution-related deaths; and his plans to tackle air pollution in Ireland. [9444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will devise an all-island anti-fracking strategy; and if he has spoken with his counterpart in Northern Ireland in respect of the importation of liquefied natural gas. [9445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Flood Risk Management (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of the increased threat of floods in coastal areas due to the climate crisis. [9443/22]

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak on behalf of the Labour Party in a debate that purports to address twin crises - the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. I have indeed spoken previously about these twin crises that we are all facing in society. All of us across the House are hearing from constituents, families and individuals about the astronomical increases in the cost of living and the bills...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: First, on behalf of the Labour Party, I welcome the establishment of these two citizens' assemblies. We are glad to see this being carried out, but we are also anxious to see progress being made on the citizens' assemblies on drugs and on the future of education. Indeed, my colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, has been to the fore in seeking clear indications from the Government and...