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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: No amount of spin can hide the reality, which is that we are just not building enough houses. The Minister's answer acknowledges that. Construction industry stakeholders themselves point out that without credible targets, we simply will never meet the delivery we need to do for our growing population. We have heard it from across industry, with the Construction Industry Federation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I wish all in the House a happy new year. The Minister and her Government are presiding over an abject failure on housing. This failure is devastating, particularly for those 13,514 people, including 4,000 children, who are in homelessness. That is a record figure and a shameful record. The housing crisis is also impacting on the hundreds of thousands of young adults living out of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on fuel poverty in the private rented sector; his plans to ensure that rented properties are included in thermal retrofit programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56724/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legal actions and actions of instances being taken against his Department for failure to implement EU directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are retrofitting grants that are specific to apartment complexes; if not, his plans to put such specific schemes in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57137/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is possible for apartment owner management companies to access individual energy upgrade grants for an entire apartment complex; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57138/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to reports that many, possibly most, one-stop-shop operators will not quote or engage with apartment owner management companies; if he will consider putting in place specific one stop-shop services for apartment complexes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57139/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 12 December 2023, the timeline for completion of the assessment of vacant housing stock referred to. [57147/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising switching from diesel and petrol cars to electric cars. [56719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising modal shift from cars to public transport. [56720/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising modal shift from cars to bicycles. [56721/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the approval by An Bord Pleanála of the Liffey Valley to Dublin City Centre BusConnects scheme, when construction of this scheme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 319. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of the vacant homes tax and residential zoned land tax respectively will be retained centrally by the Exchequer or returned to the relevant local authority where it was raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56679/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 320. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have claimed the renters credit in each month since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the evidence used to measure its efficacy in easing financial burdens on those renting. [56694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in each county which availed of mechanisms to warehouse tax debt; the types of businesses which availed of the measure by county, in tabular form; the size of businesses which availed of the measure by county; and if he will provide a list of businesses which availed of the measure, in tabular form. [1106/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 347. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail his engagement with the restaurant sector in respect of the warehousing of tax debt in each year since 2021; and his plans to engage with the sector in 2024. [1107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 348. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the terms of reference of the repayment of warehoused tax debt by businesses due to Covid-19 with respect to the provision of a timeline for repayment, the payment of a lump sum, and engagement with the Revenue Commissioners on the matter, respectively. [1108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 349. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department possesses forecasting on the anticipated effect on businesses of the May 2024 deadline for repayment of warehoused tax debt with respect to job losses, future loss of tax payments, business closures and other matters; and, if so, if he will supply that forecasting. [1109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 350. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the anticipated effect on businesses of the May 2024 deadline for repayment of warehoused tax debt with respect to job losses, closure of businesses and any other relevant matter. [1110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 413. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of breaches of the minimum wage legislation in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023; if he is satisfied at the enforcement of the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56709/23]