Results 441-460 of 11,403 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I very much support amendment No. 31. It is important to see the expansion of the definition of "transport infrastructure" to include, specifically, infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians. I am delighted to see that. I hope we can all support it. I endorse Deputy Matthews’s comments on rights of way. I tabled amendments in this regard tabled on Committee Stage, as he...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I will make three points in response to the Minister's comments. First, I restate that the difficulty for all of us in opposition with the process tonight is that we have not had sufficient opportunity to debate the amendments from the Seanad. There are 627 of them in 31 groupings and we are still on the first grouping. Three hours is not enough time to debate amendments we have not had an...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Yes.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: It is the amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I know others have already spoken in general about the process. Indeed I spoke about it this morning. It is really concerning to see that we have only three hours to debate 177 pages. I am just looking at the groupings we have been given. Even if we just look at the groupings, we can see 31 groupings of amendments and we are still only on the first grouping 45 minutes into what is only a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Today I am forced to raise again our concerns about the Government’s 925-page Planning and Development Bill. It should be receiving adequate consideration tonight but we know it will not because the Government is giving us just three hours to consider 177 pages of amendments to this extremely significant legislation. These are amendments we have never had the opportunity to consider...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I cannot accept the line that the planning Bill has been considered in full. As the Minister knows, I was very engaged with it on Committee and Report Stages. This is one of the most substantial pieces of legislation the Oireachtas has ever considered but we certainly do not have enough time tonight to debate the massive number of new amendments that we have not had an opportunity to debate...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow the Government will guillotine through the Planning and Development Bill even though it is one of the most important Bills this Dáil will consider because planning will determine our capacity to resolve the housing crisis, the energy crisis and, indeed, transport infrastructure. Ironically, under our planning laws, if a council or local authority made a decision the way the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I want to cut across this to-and-fro on this, remembering that there are child victims when we discuss child protection issues and serious matters which have arisen in respect of Sinn Féin's handling of offences of child sex abuse by an employee. I propose to the House that we make time available this week for statements on child protection issues. We should simply vote, or indeed...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: The endless anti-immigrant talk is unacceptable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Bring it on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: That does not even merit a response. It is outrageous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: It is ridiculous nonsense.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: On the point raised by Deputy Duncan Smith concerning the very serious revelation about the Oireachtas Member who it appears is in the pay of Russia-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of interviewees for the scoping inquiry on historical sexual abuse in schools who had previously signed non-disclosure agreements in respect of their schooling years; her views in the prevalence of non-disclosure agreements as a chill factor for victims of institutional childhood abuse; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (8 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any persons who were reported in the scoping inquiry on historical sexual abuse in schools are still teachers, or in any paid employment, either as a staff member or elsewhere in proximity to the education of children. [39814/24]