Results 121-140 of 11,381 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: No, that is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The Opposition is not obstructing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [9457/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It is deeply distressing to see the resumption of Israel's brutal bombardment on the people of Gaza and horrific to hear Netanyahu describe Israeli airstrikes as "only the beginning". We have already seen horrific levels of deaths of civilians, including children, and what little hope was left for the population of Gaza seems to be gone, with barely any aid reaching civilians. Our moral...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Many of us in opposition are very concerned to hear the Government suggesting that we are somehow delaying the formation of committees.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It is the Government that is seeking to change Standing Orders. The Ceann Comhairle ruled on the Lowry lads’ status to the effect that they are not a technical group in opposition. We in opposition are abiding by that ruling of the Ceann Comhairle. The Government is seeking to change it. It is looking to bring in changes to Standing Orders that we have not seen. Our Whips have not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach says he is open to new ideas on housing but every time anyone in opposition raises a new idea with him he never misses an opportunity to denigrate it and belittle it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: As he well knows, the Labour Party's proposal clearly set out in our manifesto was to scale up the existing Land Development Agency, which we have supported in opposition, in order to ensure the State could bear the risk of building upfront. What I am hearing from builders and developers throughout the country is they desperately need upfront financing and that the absence of that is what is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: With respect, people will take with a large pinch of salt the Taoiseach's claim to be willing and open to taking up new ideas to deliver more homes more quickly. People see for themselves that homes are not being delivered by the Government, nor were they by the previous Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Scale it up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It is how it is spent.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Yes there was.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It is in our manifesto.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: They say every day is a school day. While the Dáil rose last week, we all learned something new. We all thought we knew why we had a housing crisis in this country - the number one issue facing this country, as the Taoiseach just said. We thought we had a housing crisis because of the Government’s policies and flat refusal to restrict evictions and stop families falling into...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 11 June 2024, if he will report on matters previously raised (details supplied). [10854/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 514. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on recent reports on the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland in respect of threatened legal action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10853/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when extension and refurbishment works will commence at a school (details supplied); and the reason for repeated missed deadlines for same. [10855/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (19 Mar 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will facilitate the replacement of existing prefabricated portacabins at a school (details supplied). [10856/25]