Results 161-180 of 892 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and expeditious manner. Given that the evidence they gather is not admissible in similar criminal proceedings, they were supposed to be effective, efficient truth-finding mechanisms. Also, given how long the report has taken on just this one aspect, reading the report could be said to be like examining a long-buried time capsule with a story from long ago. If it is taking too long to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...is simply not enough to protect people and keep them in their homes without the introduction of temporary eviction ban this winter. We believe that the latter should and could be introduced. As long as the renter's credit is in place, every renter should be entitled to it. Could the Taoiseach clarify if those renting under licence agreements- licensees rather than tenants under...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the NHS can offer as a direct public service are far better. We call on the Government to establish a renewed relationship between not-for-profit organisations and the State based on a shared long-term vision and plan and to ensure a multi-annual funding framework to provide certainty for providers, their staff and, crucially, for people like the parents I met in Cork with FUSS...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for his constructive words. I do think it is fair to describe services as having been outsourced. Indeed, as the Tánaiste acknowledged, the State has a long history of outsourcing vital public services such as health and education to voluntary bodies, notably the Catholic Church and religious orders resulting in a shadow welfare state. Now in 2022, we need to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his response but he might clarify when he will get back to the Irish Thalidomide Association. It has been waiting for a long time. It is very anxious, in particular, about the few mothers who are still left alive. They are owed an apology by the State and an acknowledgement of the wrong done to them because many mothers and women who had babies who were born with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...documents at the time show that authorities had considered making a public announcement earlier on the risks associated with the drug and did not do so. It remained in circulation for far too long in Ireland after international withdrawal. The reason can only be assumed or surmised. Clearly, the State bears responsibility for what happened to those children at the time and their mothers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Later today, along with our finance spokesperson, Deputy Nash, I and my Labour colleagues will be introducing our alternative Labour budget and our proposals for budget 2023. We are doing so at a time when we are facing unprecedented crises. There is a crisis in the cost of living, and there are exorbitant price increases in food and fuel and in basic household necessities. We are also...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...from families and individuals who are struggling to make ends meet and whose incomes, until even six to eight months or a year ago, were enough to meet the costs they were facing but are no longer enough to meet those spiralling costs. In Ireland we have a surplus budget figure of €6.3 billion for the eight months of this year and nearly full employment, a paradox of plenty because...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the progress of the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrant scheme. [45879/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...interested in the data showing that the gender pay gap in Ireland has reduced to 11.3%. Will Dr. Russell comment on the reason for that? She pointed out that in Britain, where the legislation has been in place for longer, there has been a reduction in the pay gap. However, the reduction is not due to a movement of women into larger firms or towards higher pay, as we would have hoped,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: .... The State is currently investing millions into a mostly privately run, for-profit sector, but we are still no closer to the sort of public, universal childcare service for which the Labour Party has long advocated. Our current system is failing parents, professionals, providers and, most importantly, children. Every day, I hear from constituents who cannot access any place in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, I spoke of the Government being long on ambition but short on delivery in a number of areas, notably on the climate catastrophe. Europe’s temperatures are reaching record highs this week across the Continent. Human activity has warmed our planet at a rate not seen for 2,000 years. The consequences are unthinkable and the imperative to act is indisputable. Last week, I...

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.