Results 161-180 of 880 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party has been unsuccessful. Despite their stated aims, they are simply not delivering the desired and necessary outcomes or results. Fianna Fáil has long professed itself the party of home ownership and of house building. Yet, since the Government took office, the housing crisis has deteriorated, rents have increased by 15%, house...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...to address this. We also know that when announcing the summer economic statement the Minister said there would be scope for additional one-off measures on budget day that would not result in a long-term increase in Government spending. How much exactly has the Government planned for these cost-of-living measures? Will the Taoiseach commit to a windfall tax on energy profits and increase...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...gives me great pleasure to second this Bill on behalf of the Labour Party. I commend my colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, on speaking so passionately in proposing it. He has fought so hard for so long on the rights of children with autism in education. As he said, we are very glad to be joined today in the Public Gallery by many parents who have spent so long fighting for the...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...rapid increase in gas prices, although the brutal war has clearly exacerbated energy security and supply issues internationally. We also appreciate that the current crisis represents a failure of long-term planning in this country on the transition to renewable energy sources. Throughout last summer and into the autumn, the pressure on electricity supply grew due to the growing demands...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...would create a coherent framework for addressing the needs of children with autism. The need for this sort legislation has become patently clear in recent weeks and months. That need has been clear for a long time for the parents of children with autism who have been waiting for so long to see proper and effective provision made for their children. Last weekend, I had the pleasure of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you. I did not want to interrupt but you have a long opening statement and I wanted to make sure that everyone gets a fair share. I call Ms Hassett.

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...violence and that this directive will be the first to address specifically this type of violence. It is remarkable that is still the case in 2022. I suppose it reflects the reality that, for a long time, domestic violence was not taken as seriously as other forms of violence within the criminal justice system not just in Ireland but elsewhere. Many of us who have practised criminal law...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Answering that is no easy task. That was a long question.

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...to be taken to ensure that we meet our ambitious but necessary climate targets. The first Bill I published when I was first elected to the Oireachtas 15 years ago, in the Seanad which seems a long time ago in some ways, sought to impose a cap on Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. It was the first Bill of its kind in Ireland. Although that took place relatively recently, it seems a...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...war in Ukraine, waged by Putin, is a wake-up call for Europe on our dependency on Russian fossil fuels and the urgent need to decarbonise. It is not credible to argue now is the time to restart the long-term exploration and exploitation of fossil fuels in Irish waters. Let us not forget that this motion is not about oil that is sitting there ready to be extracted as though a tap can be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...have died every day from Covid since the TRIPS waiver was first proposed, the majority in low-income countries. I am conscious of the immense devastation Covid has caused here, with reports growing of long Covid and a lack of treatments for people suffering from it. However, I am also conscious, as all of us are, that the implications and impact have been so much worse from those who...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (14 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to produce Ireland’s Long-Term Strategy (LTS); if there are plans to submit the LTS in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29579/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...two-parent family, the father will not be involved in the pick-up or drop-off and will not be rung by the childcare provider. It comes back to the point Deputy Clarke is making about where parents have a long commute. This is a major issue in commuter counties around Dublin too, more generally. Should the crèche or childcare facility be near the workplace, the home or the school?...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...outside hospitals around the country yesterday. I was glad to join members of the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association in hospitals in my constituency. We are all conscious that there are long-running issues that had driven the medical laboratory scientists to take this action. In some cases, these issues have been ongoing for 20 years or more. I refer, for example, to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the national maternity hospital for both the Opposition and the Government is that of full public ownership - freehold ownership, not the conditional ownership represented by leasehold, however long it may be. I ask the Taoiseach again to take into account the clear and overwhelming majority of those of us in the Opposition who wish to see the hospital built on publicly owned land, who...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...two-week delay did not lead to any change or substantive improvement in the deal that was on offer and we should have learned by now that there is a need to get this right because we have such a long legacy in Ireland of church and State interference in the exercise of women's right to reproductive healthcare. Many of us fought for decades to see the eighth amendment repealed and when we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...colleague Deputy Howlin, who has extensive experience, has advised that this is a realistic option. It is time that we stood up to the religious orders and their successor companies. For far too long, the State has been submissive in enabling ownership of land to continue in the hands of religious organisations, and the lay-run trusts that have succeeded them in property ownership, in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...is to be built, to put beyond doubt the future ownership and future availability right into the next century of all necessary maternity and reproductive healthcare services for women. For too long women in this country have been failed by the State and by the church authorities, often working in tandem. We need to call them out on it now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to raise the issue of the long delays in the roll-out of free GP care for children. In 2015, funding was secured for the extension of free GP care to all children under 12 but this was not rolled out. Again in 2020, the then Minister, Deputy Harris, announced free GP care for children aged 12 and under on a phased basis, with six- and seven-year-olds first. In the most recent...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., and many church groups across the constituency and other community groups organising events, and we are seeing similar across the country. We are also looking at accommodation needs. I, along with my colleague, Councillor Dermot Lacey, have identified the long vacant Baggot Street hospital as a State-owned building. I think it is on the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien's radar that...