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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise a housing issue which my Labour Party colleagues, Senator Moynihan and Councillor Darragh Moriarty, have been highlighting locally. I refer to the shocking findings by Trinity College recently that residents of Oliver Bond, the oldest and largest social housing complex in the State, have worse health outcomes than their neighbours in Dublin 8 due to the conditions of social...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Pearse Street.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Everyone, regardless of where in Ireland they live or how much is in their pocket, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect when they are sick. Everyone deserves to have timely access to the medical treatments they need. I know the Taoiseach appreciates that, but his Government’s policies are hurting people in hospitals, not helping them. I am talking about the current HSE...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his words for Conor Sheehan. I absolutely agree with him regarding the immense hard work and commitment of medical staff throughout the country but he has given me a standard response on the recruitment freeze. The reality is that lifting the freeze for certain contracts and grades will fix nothing. It will not entice healthcare professionals back from Australia,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 40. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of briefings he received from the Climate Change Advisory Council in 2023. [3187/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of adult and child passports issued in 2023, in tabular form. [3190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to encourage safer cycling at night-time in both rural communities and in cities. [3188/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department possesses data on the number of reported incidents of LGBTQ+ bullying in 2023. [3189/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public defibrillators in each county. [3192/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has undertaken an assessment of the cost of providing the flu vaccine free of charge to all people over 18 years of age. [3193/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 228. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of animals held in pounds at year end for each of the past seven years and per local authority area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 229. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of animals euthanised by pounds in each of the past seven years and per local authority area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3182/24]

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. It is regrettable we are seeing the debate descend into a shouting match-----

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----given the seriousness of the issues we are debating and discussing. We have all been watching, over the past 100 days, with increasing distress and horror the carnage in Gaza and the utter devastation of a civilian population as a result of the brutal Israeli bombardment. Since the attack by Hamas on 7 October, which was itself brutal and resulted in appalling death and the taking...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Each year it is estimated that 14,000 women in Ireland experience pregnancy loss yet currently, as we know, there is no provision in law for any leave for women who experience an early miscarriage - a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks - or for employees who seek time off work to access reproductive healthcare treatments like IVF. We in the Labour Party brought forward a Private Member's Bill...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday we saw a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court in the case of Johnny O'Meara. I commend the courage of Johnny O'Meara in challenging the inequality in law relating to cohabiting couples and to note that judgement. I also note that the Government is committed to passing legislative change to give effect to that ruling to ensure cohabitees in the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase the SEAI better homes grant in order to allow for more substantial energy upgrades of homes, the costs of which are beyond what is currently covered by the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in 2023; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in all local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what provision is made for divorced or separated couples in the Fresh Start initiative. [2516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide grants to refurbish houses which are not vacant, for the purposes of the vacant homes grant, but which require substantial repair in order to be habitable and energy efficient, given that in many cases the current SEAI better homes grant are not sufficient to cover the costs of this refurbishment; and if...