Results 461-480 of 11,555 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the gender breakdown of her Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5847/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 755. To ask the Minister for Health the gender breakdown of her Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5855/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5854/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5859/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, has had a string of bad luck with ministerial issues. It is a sort of reverse Midas touch. In his previous role, he had to deal with bike shelter and security hut overspends by the OPW. Now, weeks into his new job, we find out about this extraordinary and alarming spend of nearly €7 million on a failed IT project at the Arts Council. This enormous...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. I am glad he has acknowledged there are clearly questions for the Department as well as the Arts Council. I listened to the Minister expressing his anger and disappointment on the radio this morning, but we need more than just expressions of anger and disappointment from the line Minister. We need greater clarity on when he became aware of this....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I reiterate my call for a Dáil debate on this.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mining Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will supply the complete notification received in respect of the Sperrins gold mine; if he will make a statement on the notification in respect of water abstraction and discharge; and if he will make a statement on the need to request a transboundary consultation due to the River Finn SAC. [5225/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise with the Taoiseach gaps in the education system for children who require additional supports. We are all very conscious of the serious shortfall in this area. In particular, I want to speak about children who are failed because the education system lacks support for those with dyslexia or dyspraxia. In schools and in our State exams, people continue to be let down. During...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is both issues; reading schools and reading classes.

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This Labour motion offered the first opportunity in the Thirty-fourth Dáil to address and debate the question of housing. The motion set out a constructive and ambitious set of proposals and a pathway to reform housing policy and ensure Government could provide a resolution to undoubtedly the biggest challenge facing it and all of us and the biggest civil rights issue of this...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We were not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I will supply those.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We have a serious issue with waiting times for ambulances arrivals - 500 times in six months last year, ambulances took longer than an hour to arrive on the scene of a high priority case. These can be cases of life and death, literally. The Minister for Health may wish to respond. I have just been informed of a very sad case in my constituency in which an elderly woman suffered broken...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: He would not accept our proposals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: They were not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister spoke about an uplift in housing delivery, but the only uplift likely this year it seems is an uplift in the rents people are being forced to pay. People tell all of us that they can barely afford to meet their monthly rents. Can the Minister give certainty to renters that RPZ laws will be retained or that there will be an equivalent safety net? There is nothing coming from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I return to the biggest immediate challenge facing the Government, namely housing. Despite the bluster from Government, it has admitted that last year it built nearly 10,000 fewer homes than it previously stated. We all hear from our constituents in communities around the country that housing is the single biggest issue facing families and individuals. We hear this from people who are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Court of Justice (11 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position with respect to Ireland joining case C-829/24 at the Court of Justice of the European Union (details supplied) on Hungary’s so-called “foreign agents' law”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4660/25]