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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the publication of the review on the status of PhD researchers, that is, classification as either students or employees, has been delayed; if it will be published before the 2024-2025 academic year;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27096/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his engagement with the Minister for Justice in respect of creating a separate process for non-EU/EEA PhD researchers to apply for the 1G visa upon submitting their thesis (details supplied). [27097/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledge that today is United Nations World Refugee Day when we stand in solidarity with those fleeing war and persecution. It is all the more timely, then, to raise today the ongoing failure by the Government to provide accommodation for those who have come here seeking refuge. In recent weeks, I have repeatedly raised the plight of those international protection applicants left with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: No answer.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda automatic number-plate recognition app detects for heavy goods vehicle permit breaches; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26632/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to the issue of disability rights and autism services. As the Minister knows, Deputy Alan Kelly, our Labour Party colleagues and I have been working for some time with the amazing young autism campaigner, Cara Darmody, and her family. Indeed, we put down a motion in Private Members’ time last year on the need to address the appalling delays in assessments of need for...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Labour Party in this debate. Recent debates on immigration have been dominated by disinformation. This is regrettable because it is essential we stick to the facts. It is important to state unequivocally that seeking asylum is a human right and that under international law, everyone has the right to apply for asylum if they are fleeing...

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

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday the Taoiseach said the consensus was emerging among many EU leaders to back Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a second term. I listened carefully to his comments a few moments ago. It will be a concerning development for people in Ireland, notwithstanding what he said about Ursula von der Leyen. She has not rowed back from her initial unqualified support for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: There was extensive consideration on Committee Stage, that is absolutely right, and I commend Deputy Matthews on steering the debate there with such patience and good will. However, there was not ample time in this Chamber to debate it on Report Stage, and that it is the point. More than 800 amendments were tabled on Report Stage and I think we were at about amendment No. 200-and-something...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I begin by acknowledging the resignation of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, as leader of the Green Party. I wish Eamon and his family well on this momentous personal decision. I also wish Eamon’s colleagues in the Green Party well. I acknowledge his immense contribution to public service and environmentalism. Without a functioning planning system, we have no hope of achieving our...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Workers from the national advocacy service are striking today. They provide an essential service for disabled persons and for adults with disabilities, and yet these staff do not receive fair pay. They have exhausted all means for addressing their low-pay issues. They have been to the Workplace Relations Commission and to the Labour Court. A recommendation for a pay rise has been made and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: He is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: A September or October budget?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the Low Pay Commission recommended the abolition of sub-minimum wages for workers under the age of 20. I cannot say that any of us were surprised by the recommendation because maintaining a discriminatory system for young people could never have stood up to scrutiny when evaluated on the evidence. We all know that young workers have rent to pay and other living expenses. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: As the Taoiseach knows, we have always acknowledged any steps forward on workers' rights. We are, however, concerned to guard against any rowing back of workers' rights. As the Taoiseach acknowledged, I have engaged extensively with small businesses in my own constituency and elsewhere. I am conscious that the Low Pay Commission is statutorily obliged to have regard to the impact of its...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: On 27 February, we witnessed a historic vote in the European Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg voted to approve the first-ever EU-wide nature restoration law to tackle the existential climate and biodiversity crisis. The Socialists and Democrats group, in which we in Labour are deeply proud to now be represented following the election last night of my dear friend Deputy Ó...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I will raise an issue I have raised with the Taoiseach previously and which he spoke about earlier, that is, the ongoing failure by the Government to provide adequate accommodation for those who come here seeking refuge and are in the international protection system. I agree with him that it is inhumane and unsustainable to have people camping on the streets or in public parks, but it is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I support that call. I do not believe the Planning and Development Bill should be guillotined tomorrow night. It is a really important Bill. We have seen great concern about it. There are over 800 amendments down on Report Stage. The Minister has put down an amendment based on an amendment Labour put down on Committee Stage that will require a good deal of debate. It is an amendment to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 78.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a decision will issue in relation to an appeal (details supplied) [24739/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 355.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports in place for artists reliant on universal basic income after 2025; her views on initial data gathered by way of the six-monthly surveys; how that data is being deployed by her Department; her views on the extension of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24719/24]