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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We know the level of homelessness is at record highs. The key to tackling homelessness and the housing crisis is ensuring increased supply, but the number of planning permissions for new housing is falling and house prices and rents are rising. We were originally led to believe the Government's new housing plan would be published over the summer. It was then delayed, and now it is said it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [48430/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I return to the Government’s failure to provide for children. The thought of one child in homelessness is awful, but last month the number of children in homelessness in Ireland surpassed 5,000 for the first time - another shameful record. We see now more than 16,000 people altogether without a home. On the media this week, the Taoiseach sought to deflect blame from central...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is deflecting.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is deflecting blame.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: With respect, I do not need lectures on work and on jobs. We are the party of work. Labour is the party of workers' rights. We have a proud record on job creation. We absolutely agree with the Taoiseach that, of course, job creation and work is crucial, but I meet people all the time - the Taoiseach must meet them too - who tell me they are working hard, getting up early in the morning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: How?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to welcome everyone back to the House, in particular Deputy Holly Cairns on her return from maternity leave. I congratulate Deputy Emer Currie.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Sorry, I am rusty after the summer recess. It is good to be back in the Chamber and we have serious work to do here over the course of this Dáil term. For the Government, its long to-do list has lengthened over the summer months. There is so much for the Government to do. It must build homes. It must address the suffering of all of those locked out of secure housing. It must...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 66. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will next meet. [48433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagement with Tunisian authorities in respect of the treatment of Irish citizens participating in the Freedom Flotilla. [48873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 974 of 8 September 2025, if delivery of the permanent school building is due later in the calendar year or the academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48443/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of occasions on which officials from his Department met with Dublin City Council regarding the regeneration of Pearse House in each of the past three years; and the timeline for approval of the revised stage 2 plans for phase 1 of the regeneration. [48872/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 929. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of thefts of companion pets reported to An Garda Síochána in each of the past three years and to-date in 2025. [48869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 930. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to create a stand-alone offence to deal with the theft of companion pets; his plans to create new laws to consider the theft of a companion pet an aggravating factor in sentencing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported sexual assaults in Irish prisons, by prison and location of the reported assault in each prison such as cell, yard, landing, workshop, for each year 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49012/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 936. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for handling suspected and reported sexual assaults in Irish prisons; the number of instances of that process being instigated in each year from 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the outcome of each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49013/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 937. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 24 June 2025, the number of instances where a 23 or 24 hour restricted regime was in place for a period of 15 consecutive days or longer in each year 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025; if this information is unavailable, the way in which he is satisfied, and the public assured that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 938. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints made by prisoners regarding alleged discrimination, in the years 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the measures taken by the Irish Prison Service in 2024 and to date in 2025 to prevent discrimination within Irish prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 939. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been placed in prisons pending their deportation from the State since September 2024, by month and place of detention. [49016/25]