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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Government's rent pressure zone changes have caused fear among renters and uncertainty for investors and the Taoiseach's response to questions earlier provided no clarity. We got poetry - at least, one of the Government Deputies did - but we got no direct response. The Taoiseach said the changes to rent pressure zones will increase supply. Has any modelling been done to show how that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: But is there evidence?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Why March?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully to the answer but I did not hear anything substantive about what the Taoiseach and the Government propose to do following on from those shocking revelations. It is not just about HIQA failures. This is also about ensuring older persons have a voice. There is a blueprint there. We have a Law Reform Commission report from last year about setting up an adult safeguarding...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: When?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is 20 years since we saw distressing footage of conditions at Leas Cross nursing home. Here we are again. The scenes on last Thursday's "RTÉ Investigates" programme were deeply disturbing. Aoife Hegarty's team exposed horrifying practices in nursing homes run by one of Ireland's largest private care providers. I commend the RTÉ team and the whistleblower, Claire Doyle, on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the shared island initiative. [26916/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has outlined some of the work of the shared island initiative. Dealing with legacy is an important part of the work being done. The British Labour Government has committed to changes but no agreement has been reached yet, and there are a number of areas where families have been seeking answers and where the Government here has a role to play. I ask in particular about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It was about recognition of qualifications by CORU.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [16741/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the proposals we have seen, which I believe went to the Cabinet today, to create nearly 500 new third level places in key health and social professions, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and more. As I said, this is welcome because we all recognise the enormous shortfall in services. The concern remains that it will take years for these new places to generate more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On Ukraine, I condemn outright Russia's increasingly heavy and brutal bombardment of civilian infrastructure. We have seen more civilian casualties in Kharkiv and Kyiv in recent days. It is appalling to see that and I join with Deputy Malcolm Byrne in looking for an update on a timeline for possible accession. Ireland has been at the forefront of supporting Ukraine's proposed accession to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the European Council on 20 and 21 March. [15145/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday's arrest by Israel of those aboard the Madleen freedom flotilla ship while in international waters was a flagrant breach of international law. Those taken by Israeli forces are brave activists, bringing symbolic aid to a people who have been abandoned by the world. The activists hold EU citizenship and one is an MEP. I hope the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste will raise this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What about the meeting on 23 June?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Where is the protection?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There are 15,000 are homeless.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The reality is that many of the Taoiseach's own-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We can all agree that certainty, clarity and consistency are needed for those renting, those looking to buy a home and those looking to build and develop homes. That is precisely what is lacking in the Taoiseach's own Government's policy. He is accusing the Opposition of being caught out but he has caught out his own backbenchers. He has flip-flopped on policy on rent pressure zones,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I join others in expressing sympathies to all those affected by the school shooting in Austria of which we have just heard news. Back in February, someone in the Government was briefing the media about a proposed end to rent pressure zones. For years, the Government refused to contemplate designating the whole country as a rent pressure zone. Yesterday morning, the future of the entire...