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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The figures show it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to speak with the Taoiseach about provision for children. First, I welcome the intervention by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, in response to our Labour Party motion on services for autistic children and children with disabilities. I commend the Minister of State on committing to bring our Labour Party proposal to Cabinet. If six regional testing teams are not functional by...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: "Nobody is treating this like the house is on fire". Those are the words that 12-year-old Cara Darmody used to describe her frustration at the lack of supports for autistic people and children in Ireland. She used them when addressing the Joint Committee on Autism in November alongside her dad Mark, when they spoke about their experiences seeking services for her brothers. I welcome Cara,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier on the Ukrainian action briefing I had the pleasure of hosting today. I am very grateful to the members of Ukrainian Action in Ireland who gave us an overview of the findings of their second national survey. It is very welcome to see just how well the majority of Ukrainian people here are doing and how integrated they are. Nearly a quarter of those who responded to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: For several weeks we have raised the issue of price gouging in the retail sector. In the two weeks since the retail forum met, nothing has changed. My colleague Deputy Ged Nash has published a Bill to address the lack of enforcement powers for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC. We ask the Taoiseach and the Government to take up our Bill, adopt it, and ensure we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22862/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I join with others in raising the issue of services for autistic children, children with autism. Yesterday I met with a group of parents in Athy, County Kildare, and heard directly from them about their difficult experiences in seeking to access education and services not only for their children but for those whose children had turned 18. Services for young adults are sorely lacking. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22860/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It has been well over a year since the start of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine. I have just come from a briefing that I hosted with members of Ukrainian Action. They gave us valuable insights into the experiences of those many thousands of Ukrainians who have sought refuge here and who have been joined by people from other countries fleeing conflict and persecution. They have received...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We need a debate about the accountability of social media companies. I think everyone is aware that Meta has just been fined a record amount of €1.2 billion for breaches relating to the transfer of personal data, the largest ever EU privacy fine. The Date Protection Commissioner disagreed with the decision in this regard but was overruled by other EU countries. This comes in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a clause in the enhanced help-to-buy scheme which allows separated or divorced people who are not first-time buyers to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how she proposes to ensure effective enforcement of the rights afforded to film directors in the Irish film industry under SI 567/2021, which enacted the EU Copyright Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24820/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide information regarding the reasoning behind the decision by the Citizens Information Board that volunteer information officers would not return to their normal work when citizen information centres reopened in autumn 2021 and Covid rules were relaxed, and the decision that from 31 August 2022 these...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I will return to the issue of accommodation for refugees, which I raised earlier this week as well as last week. I visited Mount Street Lower again yesterday and was concerned to see so many people still forced to sleep there in tents. I was also concerned to see the unacceptable protests and blockades against refugee accommodation in Inch, County Clare. I think we are better than that. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party have always sought to support any constructive and progressive measures on climate advanced by the Government. Equally, we are hugely critical of the fact that the Government has missed targets. There is a lack of urgency to tackle this worrying rise in emissions from Ireland. This is happening at a time of record budget surpluses. The Government has a unique...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It absolutely was.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I join with colleagues in condemning yesterday's brutal attack on the young child in Navan. I express my sympathy and solidarity on behalf of Labour with the family and young boy concerned. I hope he makes a speedy recovery. It was an appalling attack. We all join in sympathy with him and his family. Yesterday, we learned that global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his response. This issue was raised with me by one of our most experienced councillors in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Denis O’Callaghan. He tells me a co-operative housing scheme of 42 units is under construction in the area by Co-operative Housing Ireland, of which 34 will be rental and eight built as co-operative home owned. Eight families opted...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The levies work out at approximately €13,500 per house. They are placing a huge burden on the eight families. The councillor has asked the planners to waive the levy but they will not. I am concerned about whether policies adopted by Government are being passed consistently onto councils. We see, unfortunately, serious inconsistencies in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The answer the Minister of State has given exemplifies the difficulties with the Government's approach to planning. There is a serious element of passing the buck between central government and local authorities. We have seen it in the tenant in situscheme, in Government proposals around the first refusal scheme and in the lack of planning and co-ordination between central government and...