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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...

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

Ivana Bacik: I am sorry to hear that. I swam there on Sunday and I have no infection.

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

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

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

Ivana Bacik: We will see you on the South Wall.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Minister to provide information on the status of the carbon budgets and a clear timeline for the publication of the carbon budgets and the climate action plan. With just over a week to the start of the crucial climate talks at COP26 in Glasgow and with only nine years to the 2030 deadline for the achievement of our ambitious and welcome 51% reduction target, what is lacking is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I entirely agree with the Minister about the necessity for urgency and the scale of the challenge facing us. I am somewhat dismayed to hear that it will be 3 November and later in November before we will see consideration by the Government of the draft climate action plan and publication of the carbon budgets. That appears to be quite significant slippage, particularly as COP26 will have...

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality. I listened with great interest to the Minister's speech. It is really good to see us having this debate. I was delighted to read the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly in April. What it has done in setting forward the 45 recommendations is present a visionary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2022 (20 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 288. To ask the Minister for Health the legal rationale underpinning the age limit of 17 to 25 years of age for those accessing free contraception as set out in the €31 million women’s health package in Budget 2022;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51700/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if undocumented workers who report illegal employment practices as described in Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 7 October 2021 will be referred to immigration authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50449/21]