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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications and approvals for a student visa from students in Türkiye in each of the years 2014-2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [26266/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 29. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [25316/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent discussions with President Zelenskyy. [16742/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the briefing. First, I wish to express my own deep solidarity and that of the Labour Party with the people of Ukraine as they face what the Taoiseach has rightly described as an existential threat to their country and, indeed, to European democracy as a result of Russia’s brutal war and bombardment. I want to ask about three specific ways that we can show...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will next meet. [18693/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to ask about Government policy on accommodation and international protection. On Friday, we saw the Government confirm it would not proceed with opening an IPAS centre in Coolock on the former Crown Paints site. We are all aware there has been a very violent and nasty campaign against the opening of an IPAS centre there. There were local public representatives who bravely stood in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The news from Gaza is getting worse and worse each day and as famine takes hold, we all fear that Israel's announcement that it will allow aid into Gaza is as illusory as it was the last time. Gaza needs 600 trucks every day and just five were let through. Meanwhile, more and more children are being killed and maimed with surgeons speaking about the horrors of having to amputate the limbs...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Will you meet Cara?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Good.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully when the Taoiseach said the issue is not one of resources but one of capacity. Then he threw out a number of hypothetical ways in which capacity could be addressed. However, the Government has not done anything to address capacity. I sat yesterday in my own constituency with two desperate mothers who are desperate to get school places for their children. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Today, as the Taoiseach knows and as we all know, marks the beginning of the 50-hour protest by young Cara Darmody. Like others, I welcome Cara and her father Mark to the Gallery. Cara is an incredible campaigner for the rights of children with additional needs, and she is only 14 years old. She is staging this protest, as the Taoiseach knows, to raise awareness of what is an emergency,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what we have seen. It is two years to the week this week since we in Labour brought a Dáil motion, with the great support and encouragement of Cara Darmody, setting out a constructive plan to take on and address these waiting lists and to treat the chronic delay in diagnoses like the national emergency it is. Many of us will recall that on that day in this House, the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Co-operation (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 185. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the shared island initiative. [25319/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 186. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [25320/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Anti-Racism Measures (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 189. To ask the Taoiseach further to his comments to representative groups regarding addressing antisemitism in Ireland (details supplied), if he will provide details of his plans to appoint a national co-ordinator to oversee efforts to counter antisemitism. [25964/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Human Rights (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the arbitrary detention of a person (details supplied) who has been wrongly imprisoned in Dubai for seventeen years; and if he will meet with their spouse who is an Irish citizen and is campaigning for their release. [25158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Anti-Racism Measures (20 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 26 March 2025 and his plans to engage with community representatives, if he will meet with representative groups (details supplied) on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise concerns with the Taoiseach about the Government's so-called free HRT scheme. I pay tribute to Joe Duffy, who has announced his retirement from "Liveline", for shining a light through the programme on the experiences of women in menopause, women dealing with a cancer diagnosis and others whose lives have been made liveable by access to hormone replacement therapy. As we all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On 4 March, the Taoiseach told me, rather tetchily, "There is no resiling or rowing back from our commitment to addressing the issue of climate change". All I had done that day was to raise concerns that the new Government was not serious about climate action. That view was grounded in my reading of the programme for Government and the Taoiseach's ministerial appointments. He was quick to...