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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 528. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recognise underactive hyperthyroidism as a long-term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 529. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recognise foetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a long-term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46207/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Section 39, section 10 and section 56 workers have been denied pay parity for far too long. We are going to see a massive impact on the community and voluntary sector and on the people who rely on that sector from next week if this is not resolved. It is a glaring gap in this budget. There are glaring gaps on housing, pay provision and on health, but there are also two other glaring...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...in childhood bedrooms well into late adulthood. One in five workers is still on low pay. Even those with good jobs and their own homes are unable to access decent public services. They face long waiting lists for services for children with autism, disability services and they are unable to find a crèche place or home care services for older relatives. Far too many have fallen...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... One is that, of course, Palestinians have the right to assert and defend their human rights in the face of decades of oppression and occupation. I personally, and the Labour Party, have a long track record of supporting Palestinians' right to self-determination, but the actions of Hamas, in deliberately targeting civilians must be condemned. Israeli citizens have a right to go about...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Networks Ireland must play a crucial role in our transition towards renewables, and towards a carbon-neutral energy infrastructure and a broader green economy and society. Ireland’s gas network is more than 14,500 km long. It supplies more than 30% of our total energy, including 40% of our heat and almost 50% of our electricity. We have debated in this House already the huge...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (26 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...list in each test centre in September 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will report on his representations to the National Car Testing Service in relation to long waiting times in certain areas. [41041/23]

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Elena Secas and Joe Leddin, who have provided me with a very important input and observations on this topic. As the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, will be well aware, the Labour Party has a long history and a proud tradition in Limerick. I think of our wonderful former representatives such as Jan O'Sullivan, who remains very actively engaged in local politics, and the late Jim...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...at Temple Street Children's Hospital. The revelations have also cast a focus on ongoing failings in the provision of surgery for children across children's hospitals in Ireland. There are long delays still in the system years after commitments were made by previous governments to address those delays. We in the Labour Party are seeking a commitment from the Government for a debate on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (20 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of guidance for local authorities in relation to assisting victims of domestic violence with emergency and long-term accommodation needs. [39714/23]

Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...tackle vacancy. His proposal that the derelict sites register be subject to online publication and that there would be a duty to notify the Minister after two years on the derelict sites register along with the strengthening of local authorities to CPO vacant and derelict buildings are all really important measures that could and should be taken up by Government. Regarding current...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I will start by paying tribute to our colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, for his immense passion and his immense and long-standing commitment to the game of football and for the incredible eloquence of his "Football is Ireland" speech earlier, which everyone has commended. I thank colleagues across the House for supporting the motion. I welcome those joining us in the Gallery from...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... These protests amount to an undermining of the democratic will of the people in requiring us to provide abortion services and access to abortion services for women. We have unfortunately a long history of denying services to women. I am thinking of contraception services, which were denied to women and men until the 1990s, around the time when I was in college. We had a condom...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to speak on behalf of the Labour Party on this important Bill and to express our warm welcome for it. I thank the Minister for introducing it in the House. As he said, it is in keeping with a long-standing commitment. It is long-awaited and long overdue. We have just marked the fifth anniversary of the repeal vote. The need for safe access zones and the introduction of such...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...of Trade Unions, ICTU, biennial delegate conference and welcomed this review. He said it was a welcome first step in restoring public confidence. It will also be greatly welcomed by those working within RTÉ, including the staff and the many freelancers who for so long have been kept at arm's length by the organisation, while providing vital work and being as much part of the talent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...clearly one too many, but to see the numbers of homeless people rising every month under this Administration in 2023, when the Government is running budget surpluses, is appalling. The effects of insecure housing on families, in particular, are severe and long lasting. We know from these figures there are 3,699 children in homelessness. They are being deprived of the safety and security...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...vision for Dublin Bay, but I will also acknowledge the immense work that has been done by local organisations, for example, the Half Moon Swimming and Water Polo Club, which has a strong presence and long history on the South Wall at Poolbeg. It does a large amount of work. Mr. Murray's Liffey Sweeperand the Irish Nautical Trust are well known to everyone in and around the Ringsend and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...abuse from protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital just down the road from here, so I welcome the Government announcement today of the legislation on safe access zones. This law is long overdue and, indeed, a Private Members’ Bill on this was first mooted back in 2021. I hope we will see swift movement on this Bill. I ask for a timeline for its passage into law and,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Seven years ago, my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Nash, introduced a Bill in the Seanad to put a disregard scheme in place. Since then, Deputy Nash and all of us in the Labour Party have worked alongside LGBTQ activists such as Kieran Rose and Karl Hayden on the establishment of the working group and the disregard scheme. We are very pleased with the announcement by the Government this...

Flood Insurance Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Minister of State also referred to. It is important that this issue is addressed and it is disappointing to see a further delay being proposed by the Government, given this legislation has had a long genesis, as the Deputy said. The background to this, as we all know, is that the planet is getting hotter. Unfortunately, severe weather events are becoming more extreme and frequent and...