Results 61-80 of 11,864 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is unsatisfactory. I add my voice to that. We do need to raise this at the Business Committee. Clearly, the debate on the motion on the flotilla is hugely important. We all looked for that so on this occasion, there is no difficulty with moving straight to that debate. However, in principle, to have just two groupings of Taoiseach's Questions when we have all prepared for three is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I hope he watched the debate. It was very good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [50150/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The European Environment Agency's recent report is nothing short of damning. It sets out the reality for biodiversity and finds that Ireland's natural environment is in very poor condition. Some 85% of protected habitats and almost one third of protected species have an unfavourable status. It is clear that excessive car dependency, unsustainable food production and emissions that are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [48431/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach outlined some of what the Government has been doing on health. In this budget forthcoming next week, will he clarify if there will be provision to increase the level of GP coverage around the country? I think all of us, in rural and urban areas alike, are hearing about the difficulty in accessing GP services, and about GPs who report being overworked and facing difficulties in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Daft.ie reports today that the asking price for a home is nearly 40% higher than pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, 5,145 children are in homelessness. Last Friday's figures again showed a new shameful record, with the creeping up of the numbers in homelessness and a new record being set every month. Every day, we all hear from people with good jobs, many of them couples with two incomes, who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We all agree that the healthcare system, in particular children's healthcare, should be managed according to patient need, and not institutional need. As the Taoiseach has acknowledged, that has been a failing in the past. We welcome his commitment to engagement between the Minister and parents on the shape of the inquiry. Transparency must be at the heart of the inquiry for parents. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We welcome that, but how can we be confident that this change is going to deliver the transparency and the better, more effective and more patient-centred practice that we all want?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat Ceann Comhairle. I ask that we step aside from the cheap political point scoring for a moment. I want to raise a very serious issue on which I think there is commonality across this House, which is children's health. Specifically, the issue of children who have been suffering with scoliosis and spina bifida who have been failed for far too long by this State. I welcome...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department maintains a policy on the purchase of data from companies engaged in real-time bidding on location data of Irish citizens by its agencies; details of the policy, if it exists; and if his Department, or agencies under its auspices, have engaged with, or purchased data from, companies engaged in real time...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to address crime and antisocial behaviour in the southeast inner city. [51869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Legislative Measures (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 826. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the progress to amend the Equality Acts and related legislation to include socioeconomic status as a protected category in the context of discrimination. [52153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the revision of the EU Directive on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, specifically in respect of medicines related to sexual and reproductive health (details supplied); if the Government will support the removal of this provision, in line with the position of several other Member States and with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I will add that all our thoughts are with those on the flotilla. It is hugely important that Ireland does all it can on the world stage to ensure the safety of those on board. This week, we saw the US President and health secretary coming out with bizarre and unfounded assertions about links between paracetamol and autism. I want to share the horror of AsIAm CEO Adam Harris, who said...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledge Deputy Heneghan, who is on the flotilla along with other Irish citizens. We wish them all well and hope for their safety. This Government's response to me on climate is another classic exercise in deflection. We heard it earlier during the Government's response to the motion on child poverty and child homelessness. It was deflection and side stepping. Of course this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I think it is a fair critique to make. The Government is not taking climate seriously-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----and we need commitments in this budget that will reassure us and ensure we meet our targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to start by joining in the tributes to Julie Lyons. We wish her and her family well on her well-deserved retirement after 34 years and seeing off nine taoisigh. We will miss her. My colleagues have reminded me just how kind and generous she has always been, particularly to the children who visit this House regularly. That has been really appreciated, and also the way she brought...