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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I raise with the Taoiseach the ongoing issue of policing levels in our communities. Across the country, we all hear from communities who have immense concerns about the shortage of gardaí on the streets, a lack of community gardaí and problems of low morale within the Garda. In my constituency of Dublin Bay South, this week alone we have seen an appalling incidence of antisocial...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to ensure we have visible and effective policing of our streets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There is so much to challenge in what the Taoiseach just said, with respect. First, he cannot stand over his Government's figures on delivery of homes when it promised 40,000 homes last year and the actual delivery was 10,000 short, a shocking shortfall. It is utterly indefensible. No one, even in the Government or in Fianna Fáil, will stand over that figure. Second, the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I hear every day from renters in my constituency-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----who are desperately worried because of the review of RPZs announced by the Government. The reason is there are so few homes available to rent. If they cannot afford to pay their rent any longer, they have nowhere else to go. It comes back to delivery of homes. The Government is ignoring the crucial recommendation of the Housing Commission that the Government should introduce a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----of homes through the Land Development Agency, ramped up-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to provide State-built homes, as was done in the seventies, which the Taoiseach keeps referring to as the golden age of house building.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: He promised 40,000 homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: You said they were not high enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Last Friday, we learned 15,418 people were recorded as homeless in March, another shameful new high. Nearly 5,000 children are now growing up in Ireland without a home. Each homeless child is a tragedy. There are now 22 more children homeless than there were last month. This is a national scandal. It is the civil rights issue of our generation. As legislators, we must do all we can to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This move looks like nothing more than an exercise in the evasion of accountability. What will this body actually do?

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I second the motion and commend my Labour colleague, Deputy Eoghan Kenny, who has devised this motion and tabled it with such passion and strong advocacy. I welcome those in the Public Gallery who join us for the debate. We have quite a number of parents and groups campaigning on behalf of children who have been deprived of their right to an education by the State. I will single out from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [13745/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I was curious to read today about apparent opposition from some in the Taoiseach's party and in Fine Gael about the prospect of expanding parental choice in education. I very much welcomed the proposals from the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to create more multidenominational schools in Ireland. The Labour Party has always stood for increased choice in schooling. I have campaigned successfully...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach gave some figures. Of course there are some good news stories throughout the country. I have visited schools that have superb facilities. I acknowledge that. There are some new builds that are really impressive. As the Taoiseach stated, however, there are still immense challenges. In the Dublin area, there are immense challenges. The Taoiseach referred to growth and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: As we know, childhood is short, and children being failed by the State today do not have the luxury of time. There are massive negative consequences for any child who receives inappropriate schooling or, worse, no schooling at all, yet across the State we see systemic failures in provision for children with additional needs. That is why, once again, we in Labour will be using our Private...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I join the Ceann Comhairle in welcoming our colleague from London, Mr. Liam Conlon, MP, for Beckenham and Penge, to the Distinguished Visitors’ Gallery. He is here with Donal Sheehan from his office. I commend Liam for his work on bringing forward Philomena’s law in Westminster, legislation that will secure additional justice for survivors of mother and baby homes, many...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The horrific killing is continuing in Gaza with reports of 29 more people, including several children, killed overnight in Gaza City by Israeli bombardment. The Gaza Strip lies in ruins with no sign of any renewal of the ceasefire. I support the calls for an independent international inquiry arising from the cold-blooded killing of 15 humanitarian workers at the end of March in Gaza who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There were 233 children on a waiting list for spinal surgery at Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, hospitals at the end of February. Of those children, 43 who had been approved for surgery had been waiting more than six months and 15 of those had been kept waiting for more than a year. These children are in agony. It is a national shame on us all that they are kept waiting so long....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for clarifying that there has been engagement with Daniel Collins's family. However, I understand there is still no surgery date. We all wish Daniel and his family well. However, the reality is there are far too many families and far too many children still awaiting necessary surgery dates. Quite apart from the trauma all those families and children are going...