Results 661-680 of 11,403 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the continued vacancies of two positions on the board of the Road Safety Authority since 1 January 2024; when the vacancies will be filled; his views on the board's capacity to manage recent increases in road deaths with a barely quorate seven members, instead of the full complement of nine; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the funding awarded for schoolbooks was reduced to €80 per pupil from €96 in 2023; the savings to her Department from this reduction; if schools are allowed to pass on higher costs to parents; if she plans to reduce it further; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the current maximum remediation option grant of €420,000 by 10% as provided for in the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to account for increased building costs; when he intends to review the level of the grant; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will implement the updated costs report from an organisation (details supplied) received by his Department on 29 March 2024 to ensure that grants under the defection concrete blocks scheme account for increased construction costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24056/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes he plans to make to the defective concrete block scheme; if he will ensure the cost of replacing foundations is provided for; the action he intends to take to address the presence of pyrite and pyrrhotite in aggregates within poured concrete foundations and the risk that these will cause future damage to rebuilt...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason parents of twins and triplets only receive one entitlement to parent's benefit until the child attains the age of two, given that 130 days' parental leave is provided per child. [23639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 435. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 640 of 8 May 2024, if he will list all the preparatory steps which are required prior to commencement of the Public Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023; and if he will offer a progress report in respect of each of these steps. [23668/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 491. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend BreastCheck screening to younger age cohorts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24054/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I again raise the plight of thalidomide survivors. They have been waiting more than 60 years for justice and have become desperately frustrated. They are urgently seeking a Government commitment to re-engaging with them to achieve a resolution to seek a State apology and a compensation package, a fair deal. I have been raising this consistently for some time. The Minister met Finola...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is a drop in the ocean.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We are in the middle of a housing disaster. It is the greatest crisis facing the country and the greatest civil liberties issue of this generation. It is really unedifying and unhelpful to listen to a shouting match between two men in this Chamber, shouting and trying to score points off each other. That is not helpful for the more than 13,000 people in homelessness and the 4,000 children...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I am always happy to do so. We need to learn, in this House, how to disagree agreeably and how to make substantive points in debate in a respectful, courteous and civil manner. The report of the Housing Commission has dominated headlines and debate - rightly so - since it was leaked earlier this week. It was welcome to hear the Taoiseach say he does not appear to challenge its findings,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I do not hear any sign of the necessary ambition or urgency from the Minister when he effectively says to people to wait and see, that we will publish those revised targets but just not yet, even though everyone, including the Housing Commission, says the targets are simply too low. Let us take vacancy and dereliction as an example. So much more needs to be done to tackle the scourge of...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate Housing for All. When it comes to housing as a public good, we in the Labour Party believe in three pillars for a housing system that works for all. The first is social and affordable housing. The second is security of tenure for renters. The third is a more ambitious home-building programme. For us, the marker of the Government's Housing for All...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Reports indicate that Ireland, along with other EU member states, may recognise the state of Palestine as early as tomorrow. I welcome that, particularly as we see the horrendous death toll in Gaza rising and International Criminal Court arrest warrants being sought in respect of Netanyahu and Israeli and Hamas leaders. We must see an end to Israel's genocidal action in Gaza and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is too low.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I said "weeks".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for acknowledging the need to increase housing targets. Indeed, his predecessor also accepted that building targets were too low, but we are still waiting for those increased targets that are so badly needed. More than a year ago, we in Labour said that Ireland would need to see output of 50,000 new builds per year to meet the scale of need. That is now endorsed and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We do not now when the Minister might have received a previous draft. It would be helpful to hear from the Taoiseach more clarity as to when the Government proposes to implement the recommendations in the report and to take that emergency action that is so necessary. More than 4,000 children are in homelessness. That is a key group of the population and society who cannot wait any longer...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: A radical strategic reset of housing policy is what the Housing Commission has called for in its leaked report, excerpts of which have been published today. I think we all look forward to reading it but it is within Government's gift to publish it. It should be published and I am glad the Taoiseach says it will be published this week. What we know from what has been leaked is that it...