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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----and she has been tireless in her campaign. I am asking for commitments on her behalf today.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to an issue I raised yesterday, namely the Taoiseach's comments at the weekend which appeared to draw a connection between migration and homelessness. I know the Minister made a statement rightly pointing out that international protection applicants do not have a right to HAP or State housing supports. The reality is that the principal reason for homelessness is the lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----that will see at least some aspect of the Bill come into law?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to the desperate situation unfolding in Lebanon and the ongoing carnage we are seeing in Gaza and the West Bank. I heard Munier and Gadier Zabad speak on "Morning Ireland" this morning. They are among the Irish families fearing for their safety and are now trapped in Lebanon with no way out while under brutal Israeli bombardment. We are seeing an horrific escalation of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has said in recent days that homelessness is heavily impacted by the fact that many people are seeking asylum and protection here. This is wrong and I want to express my concern about the language. What is impacting most heavily on homelessness is Government policy and the Government's failure to provide enough homes for people. That needs to be acknowledged by Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Clearly, children need this hospital built. We all need and want to see it built. We want to see it open and delivering the necessary services. It is just not good enough, however, for Deputy Donohoe, as Minister for public expenditure, or for the health Minister to simply say what the board is doing and not to reassure people what the Government is doing to ensure an outcome here. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to ask about political accountability for what is happening with the children's hospital or, rather, what is not happening. I read the coverage of the letter sent by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to the Taoiseach about the latest delays relating to the building of the new hospital. Perhaps that correspondence could more accurately be described as a letter from the Minister to the...

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

Ivana Bacik: 372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 May 2024, for data underpinning the figures provided in Table 1 (details supplied). [37579/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: 374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 May 2024, if any exercise to determine average weekly figures for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 programme years has been carried out by any State agency in order to compare to the figures for 2020-2021 as provided in the reply; if so, the data underpinning...

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

Ivana Bacik: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the annual early years sector profile survey was completed by Pobal for the programme year 2023-2024; and when the results of this survey will be added to the Early Learning and Childcare Data website. [37580/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: 375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parent statements provided by each partner service for the programme years 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 will be made publicly available; and the reason these documents have not been made publicly available heretofore given that section 7.4 of the Core Funding Partner Service Agreement Year 1 provides...

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,...