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Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: You created the crisis.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What an extraordinary attempt at deliberate deflection that was by a Minister who has nothing of substance to say in response to our careful, thoughtful and constructive motion. The Minister asked us about figures from the Labour Party side. There is one very stark figure that should be uppermost in his mind and uppermost in the minds of all his Government colleagues, and that is the 5,000...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is an utterly shameful figure. It represents a record high in the numbers of children who are without a home under the Minister's watch. He can deflect and seek to scapegoat others all he likes, but this is under his watch. He is the Minister for housing, and it is simply not good enough to say he will be taking decisive decisions to reduce and take children out of homelessness. How is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: All of us are appalled to learn of the stabbings of a teenager and of a tourist in his 20s in Dublin over the weekend. We all think of those who have been injured and of their families. News of these attacks put fear into people. Knife crime is a real concern for many, particularly in Dublin city centre. An Garda Síochána, to much fanfare from the Minister's side of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It has been spent. No new acquisitions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Our motion tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Of course increasing supply is a huge part of resolving the housing crisis. We will be putting forward constructive, costed proposals in our alternative budget next week, just as we did in our manifesto last year, on how to increase the supply. The reality is that the Government has not met its own targets on house building. The Minister knows that. On the tenant in situ scheme, of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The families of one in five children in Ireland, which means more than 225,000 children, now live below the breadline. Ours is a relatively wealthy country and yet more than 5,000 children are homeless. Those are 5,000 children in emergency accommodation who are doing their homework on the floors of hotel rooms or family hubs. Far too many are living in overcrowded homes with multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the need for all OPW-managed sites to have life-saving equipment. [49895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide details of the pension security for persons who remain at a disadvantage due to unpaid caring responsibilities; if his Department will carry out fresh analysis on the class and gender impacts of this feature of the social protection system; and if he will report on his stakeholder engagement in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Emergency Services (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to tackle theft and damage of life-saving equipment in public places; and his views on the need to ensure that good samaritans are not penalised for using such equipment in good faith. [49897/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to roll out restorative justice service provision as promised in the Programme for Government; his plans to provide year-on-year additional funding to ensure all counties have community-based restorative justice programmes; his plans to increase referrals through the restorative justice system; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to progress the Criminal Justice (Promotion of Restorative Justice) Amendment Bill. [50262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to prioritise international protection applicants who are sleeping rough; his plans to prioritise provision of accommodation for single male international protection applicants who have not been granted accommodation since December 2023; his views on the adequacy of processes currently in place for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 620. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the need to provide life-saving equipment in addition to AEDs and life rings; and her plans to issue new guidelines on appropriate life-saving equipment to provide to schools, sports clubs and other such bodies. [49896/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in each month of 2025 who have been discharged from nursing homes; the proportion of same who were recipients of fail deal supports; and for a breakdown of the reasons for these discharges, in tabular form. [50346/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I again express my solidarity with the Tánaiste and his family in the face of the horrible threats made against him, which I have condemned. Indeed, they are profoundly anti-democratic. We know that the online space plays a huge role in fomenting this sort of hate. In that context we should all be concerned to see the exposé on RTÉ's "Prime Time" tonight, which will show the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for that comprehensive response. I would welcome a briefing on the occupied territories Bill - anything to move things on there. I absolutely agree with him on the need for transnational and international action, but we can and should also act unilaterally because we have a strong voice of moral authority. There are like-minded states. I know this from my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Like the Tánaiste, I acknowledge the very sad news emerging from Donabate. We all think of the little boy concerned, Daniel Aruebose. Our councillor Corina Johnston expressed this morning on the radio the great sadness and distress of the community of Donabate at the sad find. The genocide taking place in Gaza reached intolerable levels of cruelty and carnage over the summer. More...

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...