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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the news that the Taoiseach will be meeting Ukraine's President Zelenskyy today. It is very important that we reaffirm our solidarity with Ukraine, particularly at a time when US President Trump is intent on tearing up the international rules-based order with his appalling positions on Ukraine and Gaza. Recently, President Trump announced that he is intent on imposing a 25% tariff...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am very disappointed by the Taoiseach's response because he did not address the substantive points I raised about the need to ensure a State-led response to the crisis in apartment financing. Instead, he engaged in dismissing Labour Party proposals. At least the previous housing Minister, Deputy O'Brien, accepted that we offered constructive opposition on housing in this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We supported the LDA. We put forward proposals for transforming the LDA into a genuine vehicle for delivering homes at the scale that is needed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Fianna Fáil refused to engage with us and the Taoiseach's dismissive and increasingly tetchy attitude in this House really indicates exactly why-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: He is increasingly tetchy, positively frothing with rage over some of the proposals we have made.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is true. The Taoiseach may laugh, but it is increasingly-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is increasingly evident.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach knows that in the Labour Party manifesto we put forward-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----careful proposals to transform-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----the building of homes in this country. He would not engage and he continues to dismiss our ideas.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We are proposing a better idea.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I never disagreed with that

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We have no issue with that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Every week brings yet more news of Government failure, as the housing crisis further spirals out of the Government's control. This week, we saw daft.ie report that rents have risen by a staggering 43% since the pandemic. At the weekend, right on schedule, we were treated to the latest top-of-the-head idea from the Government. First it was tax breaks, then it was beds in sheds and, this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier on the huge risks posed to the international rules-based order by the Trump presidency. It is a very important time for us to stand in solidarity with those campaigning for democracy. I am thinking of those in Ukraine and those of course in the democratic opposition in Belarus and in other countries around the world. Here at home, the Taoiseach said yesterday that Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 38. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [7361/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Last week I raised the chronic shortages of staff across the healthcare sector with the Taoiseach and clearly that is contributing hugely to delays in the system and to the numbers on trolleys. Today the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, reported 669 people on trolleys, and 9,738 so far in February alone. This is clearly not just an issue around weekend cover or workplace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [5758/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The programme for Government refers to the establishment of the Cabinet committee on water quality in the context of the nitrates derogation and to evidence-based solutions to assist farmers to improve water quality. The Taoiseach stated the committee is due to meet shortly for the first time. I ask that the remit might extend beyond that issue and hope that it will. There are many...