Results 501-520 of 11,403 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure that parents are made aware of how they can request a fee review of the fees policy of their partner service creche; and his views on his Department’s plans to direct all 30 childcare committees to provide a dedicated section on their websites advertising their role in this process...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the way parents can compare fees being charged by their partner service creche to those frozen from the 2021-2022 programme year, noting that these frozen fee levels are not available from the National Childcare Scheme or from local childcare committees. [37584/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We continue to see appalling loss of life in the Middle East and a really concerning escalation over recent days with the awful killings in Lebanon. All the while, Israel's brutal bombardment of Gaza and horrific human rights abuses in the West Bank continue. If Israel is behind the deaths in Lebanon, as we all assume, there must be consequences. We believe that stronger action is needed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: And the targets?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Mine is a simple question today. How can the Minister say his Housing for All policy is working when over 4,000 children are homeless? Everyone deserves the dignity of a roof over their head, and the basic responsibility of the State to provide shelter and homes is even more pressing when it comes to children and young people. On the formation of the First Dáil, the first document...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully to the Minister's response but no matter how many figures he throws across the floor at me, on the key metrics his housing policy is failing. Rents, house prices and homelessness are all up. The Minister said the number one challenge is ensuring that people can exit from homelessness, but the number of exits is simply not keeping up with the number of entries into...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Over the summer, new grim records were broken in July's homelessness figures. We see now 4,401 children left without a home, a really shameful figure, and we have learned that rents have increased by nearly 27% over the three years since the Government's Housing for All policy was launched. The Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, tells us that more than 4,000 eviction notices were served...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Government's commitment to establish a commission of investigation in the wake of the awful revelations about abuse of children in religious-run schools as illustrated in Mary O’Toole’s scoping inquiry. I also pay tribute to Mark and David Ryan. Can we have clarity from the Taoiseach on the timing of when the Government will introduce the terms of reference,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of the State-backed local authority loan mortgage protection scheme; if a verdict of death by suicide by one member of a couple who have taken out such a home loan invalidates the mortgage protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 193.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting times for driving tests in each county; and the longest waiting time for driving tests in each county, in tabular form.[33900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 194.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants who had to retake the driver theory test due to their learner permit expiring; and if he will make a statement on extending validity of the learner permit from two years to three years.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 832.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate to ensure that so-called co-living tenancies come under rent pressure zone laws; his views on the need to ensure high protections and standards for those living in such dwellings, given the decision to end the building of new co-living developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34883/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 970.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €20,000 cap for scholarship income for the purpose of claiming disability allowance (DA) will be revised in line with Irish Research Council stipends; and if the cap of ‘scholarships of up to €20,000’ should be read as indicating that funding in excess of €20,000 is counted as means,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1128.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the turnaround times for the printing of naturalisation certificates; the average waiting time in each of the past three years for receipt of a certificate; if there are unusual delays occurring in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1181.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the 120- to 150-day waiting period for those waiting for labour market access letters to access further education and her plans to ensure that those waiting on such letters will be enabled to upskill in relevant institutions.[35357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1385.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early years education providers that have withdrawn from core funding in each month since its establishment; and the number of early years education providers that have withdrawn from core funding for a reason other than closure of the premises, in each month since its establishment, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1554.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a schedule of fees, broken down by crèche, for all childcare providers that avail of the core funding scheme for 2021; where parents can access such information for their individual provider for the purposes of comparing with the fees charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35903/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1643.To ask the Minister for Health if Section 26C of the Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023 addresses the policy concerns regarding prospective non-clinical conception; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34073/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1691.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the exclusion by the HSE of health and social care professionals, HSCPs, from representation on the senior management team in the new HSE health regions; if his Department maintains a policy on integrated care and the HSE restructuring; if he will detail his engagement with HSE management in respect of same; his plans to intervene to see HSCPs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2001.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the 120 to 150 day waiting period for those waiting for labour market access letters to access further education and his plans to ensure that those waiting on such letters will be enabled to upskill in relevant institutions.[35356/24]