Results 561-580 of 11,381 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2442.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the annual payments since 2020 to providers of community diagnostics under the general practitioner access to community diagnostics scheme; to confirm if the entire service is outsourced; the proportion provided in public facilities, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33001/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2623.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current surplus in the national training fund; the uses to which it can be applied; the barriers in place to it’s spend; the spending that was applied in 2023; the purposes of said spend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32989/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2624.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available for publicly built student accommodation on lands by higher education institutions; the conditions, if any, applied to those grants; the amount of capital provided by his Department for this purpose in 2021, 2022 and 2023; a breakdown of award by higher education institution for each year, in tabular form; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2625.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of abolishing the student contribution charge; the cost of maintaining the €1,000 reduction into 2023 2024 college year; the 2023-2024 cost of extending the other one-off reductions to thresholds and grants as provided for in 2022 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33011/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2626.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first year and the full year cost of permanently reducing the student contribution charge to €1,000 or €1,500 respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2627.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost of implementing a living wage for apprentices, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33013/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: First, I welcome the update on Ms Tori Towey. I very much welcome the news that the travel ban has been lifted. It was appalling to see any woman, any Irish citizen, treated in this way. We all wish Tori and her mother well on their return home. I want to raise the appalling situation facing so many vulnerable children in Ireland, namely, those who are in the care of the State. On...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Bill. It is appropriate to see these changes made to the Residential Tenancies Act in order to align student-specific accommodation leases to the academic year. I commend the Union of Students in Ireland and student unions generally across the country. They have been campaigning and looking for this change for some time. I think we all agree...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier today, I stood with Labour colleagues outside Leinster House in solidarity with staff from the national advocacy service and SIPTU members who have been left with no option but to resume strike action because of the failure by management to respect Labour Court recommendations. I heard the Taoiseach's earlier response and I listened to it very carefully. He mentioned benchmarking....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The problem is Committee and Report Stages being taken together.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: That is the problem.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We have a concern with the Order of Business in regard to the timing and scheduling tomorrow evening of the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024. Committee and Remaining Stages are scheduled for 7.57 p.m. Amendments have been tabled by a number of my Labour Party colleagues. We are concerned that there will not be adequate time to debate a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach and agree that cultural change is needed to stamp out and make what we have called everyday sexism, harassment and gender-based violence a thing of the past in different institutions. I welcome that the Taoiseach said that, where appropriate, criminal investigations by the Garda are under way. The question is what the Government will do now about this. What practical...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to start by expressing solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the wake of Russia's horrific attack on a children's hospital in Kyiv yesterday. I welcome the Taoiseach's calling out of that attack as a war crime because it was a war crime. It is another in a series of war crimes committed by Russia in its brutal invasion of Ukraine. It must be condemned by all of us and all of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has reviewed, or requested a review, of SEC rules in relation to the use of readers in State examinations; if she is satisfied at the adequacy of supports for students with dyslexia who require questions to be read aloud and synonyms of words provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29321/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale for seeking a legal order exempting a portion of State land at the Technological University Dublin college on Aungier Street from social and affordable housing provision requirements when the land transfers; his views on the shortage of social and affordable housing in south Dublin; and if he will make a...

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

Ivana Bacik: 409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 30 May 2024, the evidence which was adduced or collated to support his Department’s contention that restriction of no-fault evictions would negatively affect supply of rental accommodation in the medium to long term; and the ways in which the recent public consultation on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Tánaiste will know that the young campaigner for autism services, Cara Darmody, is continuing her protest this week outside Leinster House. I pay tribute to Cara's tenacity in organising her campaign. She is calling for access to assessments of need and services for all children, and an end to the scandalous waiting lists that far too many are facing. Some time ago, the HSE stated...

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak again for the Labour Party on the topic of gender-based violence. I am glad we have this opportunity to have statements. I thank all those who engaged earlier on the Labour motion we brought forward on the same topic and on the broader topic of support for victims of violent crime more generally. There was some really substantial engagement. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response. I certainly agree with him on the need to move away from an emergency response and from a reliance on the private sector to provide accommodation for those seeking refuge, but we have seen no sign of urgency from Government on those two issues on which we agree. For far too long, we in Labour have been pressing the Taoiseach and the Government and,...