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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm a timeline for publication in respect of the promised review by the State Examinations Commission on exam accommodations for students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties; and if she will make a statement on her engagement with the body in respect of supports for dyslexic students. [11375/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (19 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1631. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to commence each section of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11376/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 1595. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited by the National Ambulance Service in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number of paramedics who have left the National Ambulance Service in the corresponding timeframe; her plans to improve recruitment and retention in the service more generally; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (6 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been brought to reports of threats and intimidation of legal practitioners and Courts Service staff from far-right activists (details supplied); his plans to address serious security concerns arising from such threats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10264/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the Department of housing announced it had allocated €265 million for housing acquisitions but it is unclear how much of that will support the tenant in situ scheme. We know from announcements that there are some restrictions on who can access the scheme. It seems priority is going to families, older people and disabled people. Single renters slip into homelessness at a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to ensure every child who needs a special school or class will have access to that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday, namely, the crisis in special education. Last Friday, I joined a group of 50 parents, children and family members who had to resort to a 24-hour sleep-out in front of the Department of Education in Dublin in order to highlight the crisis they are experiencing. I heard harrowing stories of experiences from desperate parents...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and saying so clearly that there is no freeze on SNAs. That is at odds with the experiences reported to us by principals. I would welcome a more detailed written response from the Taoiseach on that because we have been told there is a directive from the Department that amounts to an obstacle or blockage to the hiring by principals of the SNAs that are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will next meet. [5756/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return to the issue of the recruitment of special needs assistants raised with the Taoiseach by my colleague, Deputy Eoghan Kenny, earlier. Budget 2024 provided for an extra 1,216 SNAs in the current school year. Are all those SNAs in place? Will the increase of 1,600 SNAs announced in the budget for this year in fact take effect? We are all still hearing of children who have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has acknowledged the system is not delivering for children with additional needs who require particular provision in the school system. Indeed, I joined a group of over 50 parents, and some children and grandparents, who resorted to a 24-hour sleepout last Friday in front of the Department of Education. I heard some harrowing stories there from parents and grandparents,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the way the new disability unit within his Department will function. [7612/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Work and job quality is one of the dimensions to the well-being framework. My party would have liked to see stronger commitments on workers' rights in the programme for Government. I want to raise a number of concerns around workers' rights with the Taoiseach. We introduced a Labour Party Bill to provide for reproductive healthcare leave for women experiencing early pregnancy loss in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [7362/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What about-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I raised with the Taoiseach last week my concern and that of my party about Government proposals to dismantle the triple lock. I emphasise again we in the Labour Party would oppose any attempt to dismantle or undermine the triple lock. Given President Trump's appalling attempts to humiliate Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, which we saw last Friday, it is all the more important now we stand in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----that the mission must be in keeping with the spirit of the UN Charter, but if that is the case, why rule out the need for UN sanction?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, we indicated that we would come back.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This is completely out of order.