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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 611. To ask the Minister for Health his views on maternal deaths during the period 2019-2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46661/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug overdoses in each county in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023, and the types of drug consumed, in tabular form; and the number of drug overdose deaths in each county in the corresponding timeframe, and the types of drug consumed, in tabular form. [46662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost for 2023 and 2024 of delivering pay parity between section 38 and section 39 staff, contracted by his Department through section 39 organisations. [46718/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express my solidarity with the communities across Cork, notably east Cork, and west Waterford, today living with the utter destruction of yesterday's flooding from Storm Babet. I want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues, Deputy Sherlock and Councillors John Maher and Cathal Rasmussen, in paying tribute to all those who took such efforts to help...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Tánaiste's replies just do not pass muster. He spoke of a need for analysis and for examination but the reality is that the Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil are in government-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----and the party has the Minister of Health portfolio.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We need to hear from the Tánaiste what the plans and the figures are that are going to work in the budget. I say this because clearly, the Government's figures in last week's budget simply do not add up. This is acknowledged. Where are the plans to help those struggling people working in the health service who are so under-resourced and overstretched? Where are the plans to help...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----and ensure that the appropriate Minister, namely, the Minister for Health, is in charge of the budget. What we are hearing makes it unclear to us whether it is the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, or the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, who is calling the shots.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Either way, there is not enough money for healthcare and it is the patients and staff who are going to suffer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That was years ago. It was two governments ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Government has cut services.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: There are record-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We need further money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I will begin by expressing my solidarity with the people of Cork and west Waterford who have been impacted so severely by the flooding yesterday. I will return to this later. I want to raise the issue of healthcare spending. Last Tuesday the Government presented a "Once upon a time, in a land far, far away" sort of budget that was full of gaps with dodgy estimates. It has been exposed in...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 4: A. After "bombing that occurred last evening" to insert "and calls for an independent investigation by the International Criminal Court"; B. To insert the following after "the appalling consequences of violence;": "— unreservedly condemns the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces; the collective punishment...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: As Deputy Howlin has said, over the past 11 days, we have all been shocked and horrified to watch the unfolding violence in Israel and Gaza. Indeed, it has shocked the world. Last week, we in the Labour Party condemned the horrific killing by Hamas of so many Israeli civilians, including women and children and, of course, the Irish citizen, Kim Damti, and the young daughter of an Irish...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Does that include the amendments that were not moved now? We also have an amendment.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Today, more than 70,000 students are getting their junior certificate results, which is a record number of students. I wish them well. For many students, the education budget announced last week will have been a serious disappointment because once-off supports for schools have been cut to only €60 million, compared with €91 million last year. There was no permanent increase...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We have all been watching the violence escalate in Israel and Gaza over the past 11 days with grave horror and distress, as civilian deaths have mounted. Late last night, we learned with increasing horror that an air strike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in besieged Gaza has killed many hundreds of people. An image which will stay with all of us is that of the press conference held by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response. The response of Ireland and the international community clearly matters. It is time for the international community to call stop. While I agree with the three calls the Government has made, we need to do more. Ireland must do all we can, not only to bring about a ceasefire, to bring about, what the Taoiseach has described, the release of...