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Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., for instance, or who know, through family folklore or history, that this happened. They should be brought within the scope of the legislation. It is sensible that the Bill reflects the period examined by the commission but we are all conscious that there are concerns remaining about the exclusion of some survivors from the proposed redress scheme because they were incarcerated in...

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...House who recognise that. We in the Labour Party have also called for the introduction of a penalty-free derogation on VAT applied to energy. Our motion on 26 January included that measure. The Government must examine the need to reduce the VAT wedge on energy and fuel bills. This is eminently achievable and is an approach that is being adopted by EU member states led by socialist and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish an expert review group to examine and issue recommendations on the minimum essential qualification of special needs assistants and on the need for continuing professional development. [9989/22]

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the scheme but then discovered he was not eligible for the scheme as it pertains to windows and floor heating as those grant amounts can only be drawn down through the one-stop shop scheme. I ask the Minister to examine the matter to ensure that people will be eligible to apply through the one-stop shop for those sorts of measures. I refer to people who live in older and draftier homes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to examine the concept of trauma-informed practice in education; and if there are plans to roll-out a national framework for trauma-informed education. [7098/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...or severe speech impairment is not growing at the same rate. It is clear the access programmes for students in those particular groups are not having the same effect and that needs to be examined. There are several related issues in respect of facilitation in studying abroad and engaging in work placements, all of which would be of significant support and benefit to any student who is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his engagement with organisations (details supplied) with respect to the examination of academic support activities of PhD students. [5978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...incoming senior cycle students whose education experience at a junior cycle level has been severely disrupted due to the pandemic particularly in the context of their inexperience in sitting State examinations. [6702/22]

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...floor of this House and the Seanad, that this right had to be balanced with the right to privacy of mothers. We were also told that the right to information could not be provided for in an unconditional way. We examined this closely in the committee. I looked at what we said at the committee again today. We made the point that on the basis of the evidence we had heard and on the...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...any forum that would research and scope out the best model of employment services for those outside the labour market and without seeking sufficient engagement with a stakeholder forum to build a robust new model. When we examine the kinds of models that exist, including the partnership in Dublin 12 and the service at St. Andrew's, Pearse Street, we see genuine engagement with local...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: .... The witness evidence in the report really exposed the violations of human rights of so many. We know a total of 56,000 mothers and 57,000 children passed through the institutions in the decades examined. Thousands more were residents in other institutions outside the terms of reference of the commission. A shocking mortality rate for infants was exposed in the report and 9,000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the scheme of reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations does not provide comprehension assistance to students who have been assessed as requiring assistance by her Department’s educational psychologists; and the supports that are in place to support students with this form of dyslexia in junior certificate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to review the State Examinations Commission reasonable accommodation at the certificate examinations scheme; if she will amend the scheme to allow readers to explain the meanings of words or phrases to students who struggle with reading comprehension due to dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...Minister for Education and Skills further to correspondence (details supplied), if there are plans to use a statutory instrument to amend the scheme of reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations to be more inclusive of students with word processing difficulties. [54226/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop a national ambition to reduce pregnancy and infant loss; if he will establish a committee tasked with examining stillbirth and neonatal death in Ireland with a view to producing recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52032/21]

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ..., that was very difficult to achieve. We have seen research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin, among others, which has examined the effect of school closures in Ireland and found evidence of a widening of inequality and of significant learning loss. We have all heard from individual families and constituents about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 488. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the human tissue (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display) Bill; and his plans to progress it through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [49195/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the review of the security of energy supply of Ireland’s electricity and natural gas systems; and if the review will examine the cost of a ban on the importation of fracked gas within the timeframe included in that review. [45137/21]

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...I am glad that we have moved beyond that and are looking at a much more straightforward right to information being provided in the Government's legislation. This is long overdue. It is extraordinary to examine the legislation in neighbouring jurisdictions and other European jurisdictions in this area. Just across the Border in Northern Ireland anyone aged over 18 has had the right...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined. [43695/21]