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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It just came out this morning. The PBO tells us that child poverty will increase next year as a result of the budget measures. The Tánaiste said that we should look at the Government's documents. I have looked at this document. We see middle-income households are also hit. The guide provided at the back of the tax policy change document shows this. It shows the changes for...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach said the Opposition was anti-enterprise and not supportive of job creation. The Labour Party-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Excuse me. Labour is the party of jobs. We have a proud record, uniquely in opposition, of job creation. We have a proud record of standing for workers' rights. We do not take economic growth for granted. We welcome measures to support innovation, Enterprise Ireland and the development of AI. We absolutely welcome these, but these positive moves the Government has made are overshadowed...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I first want to thank the Tánaiste for updating the House on the situation with the five Irish citizens illegally detained by Israel on the flotilla. We all think of our colleague, Deputy Heneghan, but also the writer, Ms Naoise Dolan, and the other citizens who were detained. Israel must be held accountable for the breaches of international law. The Tánaiste might please keep us...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There was €600 million in the hospitality package.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Not substantial.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday’s budget was a deep disappointment. There is real anger out there. The Government made choices in this budget that are impacting really adversely on so many people. As my colleague Deputy Nash said in what I think was the line of the day yesterday, this is a budget that is giving handouts to burger barons and big builders, but broken promises for everyone else. People...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Certainly, in last year's budget there was a very different approach taken. It was a giveaway budget to buy people's votes. This year, the Government has made very different choices. Let us be clear about those choices. The Taoiseach referenced child poverty. We in Labour put forward last week a children's budget; a costed set of proposals that would have made meaningful steps to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: No reference to the shocking figure of 5,000 children in homelessness. No reference to the proposal to introduce a second tier of child benefit, which is a really meaningful way in which we could have tackled child poverty. As Deputy Sherlock said, this could have been the game-changer for children and child poverty. Instead, the Government has chosen to give over €600 million in a...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is an increase.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons in receipt of sub-minima rates of pay for those aged 17, 18 and 19 years, in tabular form. [53298/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Post Office Network (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his engagement with An Post in respect of the Rathmines Post Office since May 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53302/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 17 September 2025, to provide an update on the response of the school in question to the instruction that only one waiting list should be in operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 244. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagement with An Post in respect of the Rathmines Post Office since May 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53303/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied by the adequacy of measures in the Planning and Development Act 2024, intended to disincentivise and criminalise the practice of seeking or offering money to withdraw planning objections where persons do not have a genuine interest in amending or objecting to plans. [53297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on departmental reviews of the temporary release of persons convicted of certain offences and section 29 of the Judicial Council Act 2019. [53301/25]