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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for lifting the HSE recruitment freeze; his plans to reinstate recruitment for nursing home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10372/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on progress to convert into use vacant properties under the ownership of his Department and the HSE; and if he will list the units in respect of which such work has commenced, in tabular form. [10432/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 759. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove prescription fees for medical card holders; and his views on the affordability of prescription medications for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10683/24]

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. I thank the Minister for his comprehensive and helpful overview of the work that has been done following on from the publication of our report. I thank Deputy Cronin and the Minister for their kind words. It seems we are all in the revolution together. Whatever about a woman’s place being in the revolution, I am struck by the old slogan, “A woman’s place is in...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Once I can contribute again at the end.

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I would be very happy with that.

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Gender Equality entitled "Unfinished Democracy: Achieving Gender Equality", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 15th December, 2022. I am grateful for the opportunity to move the motion and speak today on this important report. I am honoured to be addressing the House as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Irish Wheelchair Association launched a report earlier this week reviewing Government plans for bus stops, footpaths, cycle lanes, pedestrian spaces and other infrastructure. It examines how disability access will be included and provided for in public transport infrastructure. It concluded that the Government approach is chaotic and irresponsible, with no evidence of any mandatory...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: That is the scale of ambition we need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: That is going back in time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It needs to raise the level of ambition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We need delivery.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The saga that is RTÉ should not distract us from the ongoing housing crisis and housing disaster. Last Friday, homelessness figures set another new and shameful record for the Government. There are now 13,531 people homeless, including more than 4,000 children - a 17% increase in one year - which is truly shocking. This is a time when, as Lorcan Sirr writes, there are more than 18,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Tánaiste and I agree on one thing, which is the issue of supply. Yet, I am not hearing from him, or indeed from any Government spokesperson, any sense of urgency about tackling that chronic under-supply. Therefore, young people - such as the transition year students who are present in the Gallery, who are very welcome today and who are listening in - are getting no sense of hope...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We are asking the Tánaiste again: what is his Government now doing to address the serious instability and insecurity that so many renters are now experiencing and to address those crisis figures of homelessness?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Last Friday marked a new and very troubling record on homelessness. We saw that 13,531 people on the homelessness list are now in emergency accommodation, more than 4,000 of whom are children. That is a really stark figure. Each one is an individual tragedy. In Dublin alone, nearly 10,000 are homeless and yet we are seeing simply no sense of urgency or ambition from Government in tackling...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, call for the Minister to take questions in the Dáil tomorrow. It is important, in particular after we saw what was, in effect, a summary dismissal of the chair of the RTÉ board on Thursday night, that is, the forced resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh. I also seek a debate on rough sleeping and what the Government proposes to do to tackle the crisis of rough...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the report by the Climate Change Advisory Council; if he will report on his engagement with the Minister for Finance in respect of the recommendation on taxation policy and transport emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8762/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with management at a company (details supplied) since it was announced that the firm would be making a portion of its workforce redundant; and if he will make a statement on job losses in the technology sector more generally. [8756/24]