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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43864/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Tusla owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant, in tabular form. [43595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Adoption Authority of Ireland owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant, in tabular form. [43598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43676/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if IPAS owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43698/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43858/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if the Food Safety Authority owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43863/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Higher Education Authority owns properties or sites which are vacant or derelict; if so, the number and addresses of such properties; if they are recorded on the vacancy or dereliction registers; and the reason for which they are vacant or derelict, in tabular form. [43860/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the students in the Gallery, who are politics students from High School, Rathgar in my own constituency. They are very welcome. I want to return to the issue of housing, the civil rights issue of our generation and most particularly of the generation of the students in the Gallery who are with us today. One key way to increase the number of homes available, that are so badly...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: How many Department of Defence homes, that could be used as homes for our Defence Forces and others, are lying empty?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We are up to the challenge.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Everyone should have a home and far too many people in Ireland today do not. Housing must be a key priority for the Government in next week's budget because housing is the civil rights issue of this generation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Indeed, it is affecting every generation and community. It is why we are seeing students marching today with the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, and calling for an increase in student accommodation. It is why we are all hearing from employers who cannot recruit staff, schools that have teacher shortages and hospitals that cannot retain healthcare workers. This is because of the housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I represent the Labour Party, the party of work and jobs, so there is no need to lecture our party on employment and full employment or even on being beyond full employment. Clearly, however, what is holding back the creation of jobs here now is the lack of availability of housing. It is holding back delivery of our public services, like education and healthcare, and is holding back our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----who simply cannot afford a place they can call home now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It was the Taoiseach's party's partner in government that wrecked the economy and brought about huge unemployment in the country.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (4 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that all homes within the scope of the vacant homes tax are compliant with the tax, in view of the fact that the tax is self-reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42926/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Last Thursday, I raised with the Tánaiste the scourge of vacancy and dereliction throughout the country. He indicated this was really a matter for local authorities to tackle but it really is a matter for central government to take a lead. This is such a blight on our communities throughout the country. It seems that State agencies and public bodies are directly involved. Yesterday,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier, our justice spokesperson, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, raised with the Taoiseach the crisis in the criminal justice system today, noting that the business of the criminal courts has been halted due to the withdrawal of services by criminal barristers and solicitors because of the lack of pay restoration moves. We have also seen a crisis in An Garda Síochána, with the...