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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I too welcome the good news about the progress overnight in Northern Ireland towards the long overdue restoration of the Stormont institutions and the executive. Is í tithíocht an cnámh spairne is mó sa Stát. Tá géarghá le níos mó tithíocht a aimsiú agus a thógáil go práinneach ach teastaíonn go leor...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I begin by thanking the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, Deputies Brady, Shortall, Duncan Smith, Wynne and the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, for their contributions during the debate. I also thank colleagues who expressed support for the Bill. First, I will address the points made by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, around the delaying mechanism in the amendment, which, as I have said, we cannot...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Thirteen months.

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you.

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." On behalf of the Labour Party, I am delighted to be bringing this Private Member's Bill to the Dáil for Second Stage debate today. Before I begin, I thank the advocacy groups, many of whom have joined us in the Gallery today, including LGBT Ireland, Equality for Children and Irish Gay Dads, as well as Labour LGBTQ+, who are sitting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Last night was a missed opportunity in the context of the votes on the atrocities in Gaza and the proceedings before the International Court of Justice, ICJ. Our national Parliament had the chance to achieve unanimity in standing up for international law and against war, death and destruction. It is unfortunate that the House divided. I was particularly disappointed that the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: That was our amendment.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: What steps will the Tánaiste take?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is the assessment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Quality (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the systems for monitoring air pollution from aviation in the vicinity of Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3569/24]

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all the words after "agrees to:" and substitute the following: "— insist on an immediate ceasefire and full, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access to Gaza and support the UN in their efforts to increase the flow of humanitarian goods into Gaza; — support any decision of the ICJ on preliminary measures, which are final and binding on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a housing issue which my Labour Party colleagues, Senator Moynihan and Councillor Darragh Moriarty, have been highlighting locally. I refer to the shocking findings by Trinity College recently that residents of Oliver Bond, the oldest and largest social housing complex in the State, have worse health outcomes than their neighbours in Dublin 8 due to the conditions of social...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Pearse Street.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Everyone, regardless of where in Ireland they live or how much is in their pocket, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect when they are sick. Everyone deserves to have timely access to the medical treatments they need. I know the Taoiseach appreciates that, but his Government’s policies are hurting people in hospitals, not helping them. I am talking about the current HSE...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his words for Conor Sheehan. I absolutely agree with him regarding the immense hard work and commitment of medical staff throughout the country but he has given me a standard response on the recruitment freeze. The reality is that lifting the freeze for certain contracts and grades will fix nothing. It will not entice healthcare professionals back from Australia,...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. It is regrettable we are seeing the debate descend into a shouting match-----

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----given the seriousness of the issues we are debating and discussing. We have all been watching, over the past 100 days, with increasing distress and horror the carnage in Gaza and the utter devastation of a civilian population as a result of the brutal Israeli bombardment. Since the attack by Hamas on 7 October, which was itself brutal and resulted in appalling death and the taking...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Each year it is estimated that 14,000 women in Ireland experience pregnancy loss yet currently, as we know, there is no provision in law for any leave for women who experience an early miscarriage - a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks - or for employees who seek time off work to access reproductive healthcare treatments like IVF. We in the Labour Party brought forward a Private Member's Bill...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday we saw a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court in the case of Johnny O'Meara. I commend the courage of Johnny O'Meara in challenging the inequality in law relating to cohabiting couples and to note that judgement. I also note that the Government is committed to passing legislative change to give effect to that ruling to ensure cohabitees in the...