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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier this week I raised with the Taoiseach the desperate case of Micheline Walsh and her husband, who are in their late 70s and facing eviction. I said then they were not alone and, very sadly, today we see a report from Alone and Threshold on older and ageing persons in the private rental sector. The report notes 40% of older people who are now renting expect to have to continue renting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for the response. I commend the authors of the report from Threshold and Alone, because they have shone a spotlight on what is, as the Minister has acknowledged, a problem we are going to see increasing with an ageing population and the ticking time bomb resulting from the chronic housing shortage. However, the Minister's Government needs to do something about this....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the North Sea Summit. [21486/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return also to the issue of offshore wind. I have raised already the frustration among stakeholders with the delays in getting the infrastructure up and running, particularly for floating offshore wind. We constantly hear from the Government about the enormous potential of offshore wind, but there has been such immense delay in getting these projects started. What is the State...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise another problem with the tenant in situscheme that has come to my attention, along with the difficulties with a lack of capacity in local authorities. Owing to the chronic shortages in housing in Dublin, including in my constituency of Dublin Bay South, many people are in house-shares with different types of tenure and lone parents, older people and a mix of full private rent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21480/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I join with others in calling for a re-municipalisation of waste services, including green waste services. I will host a briefing by the Fórsa union in the audiovisual room at 3 p.m. on precisely that topic. Fórsa will present research it has conducted into this issue. I ask the Taoiseach to engage with the union on that. I also raise the issue of offshore wind and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [21481/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know if the Taoiseach has ever read the classic text The Ragged Trousered Philanthropistsby the Irish author, Robert Tressell. We celebrated Tressell’s legacy in Liberty Hall at the weekend, with Mick Lynch, the leader of the British union, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT, speaking at the event and reminding us of the money trick under...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [21488/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Radio Spectrum Management (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 94. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the decision by RTÉ to cease the broadcast of long-wave radio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the tenant-in-situ scheme will apply to mixed tenancies, joint tenancies and tenancies in common; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the tenant-in-situ scheme will apply to single unit apartments within a larger building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21926/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the tenant-in-situ scheme will apply to a group of apartments where all tenants are served an eviction notice by the same landlord on the same grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the tenant-in-situ scheme will apply to households based on non-traditional family structures for example, friends, and cohabiting couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21928/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise the issue of Russians ships off our coast, as others have done. I express concern about this. It is of a particular concern when we note just how brutally Russia continues to bombard Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities this week, more than a year after the brutal invasion of Ukraine. I express solidarity with the people of Ukraine as this awful war continues. What is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21485/23]