Results 41-60 of 11,654 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Recycling Policy (18 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount added to the Exchequer by the sale by NAMA of what is known as the former Irish Glass bottle and fabrizia sites, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33018/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Attorney General (18 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce the Attorney General into the regime of codes of conduct for office holders that are provided for in the Standards in Public Office Act 2001. [32861/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: In December 2022, I wrote to the Taoiseach, who was the then Tánaiste, and the then Taoiseach, former Deputy Leo Varadkar, seeking updates on the national security strategy and also seeking briefings for Opposition leaders on national security, as is standard in many countries. That was in the context of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, the cyberattack on the HSE and reports of Russian...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The hotel bed tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I think it will be €12 million.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The closure of services.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [26917/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department’s interdepartmental group report on the Dublin city task force recommendations. [22232/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I have two questions about the task force. We see a huge number of issues in Dublin that need to be addressed urgently. There is a deteriorating public realm, vast numbers of vacant sites and derelict buildings, mouldy and damp social housing, including issues with social housing complexes in my constituency, and a lack of joined-up thinking about keeping spaces safe. Given the need for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: These are Taoiseach’s Questions, not questions to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [16740/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: There is a real concern that we will be simply unable to meet our targets. Figures from the CSO, published last week, show 22% of Ireland's electricity in 2024 was consumed by data centres and that demand had increased by 10% in one year. We recently saw the Secretary General of the Department of the environment raising concerns about the potential conflict between expanding data centres...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: There are some indications that, for example, data centres themselves can drive change and ensure they become net zero but we need the Government to take the lead on this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: We are not seeing that happen currently.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the pressing issue of institutional abuse. We know that survivors deserve justice and fair redress but for far too long institutions, and religious-run orders in particular, have been able to evade accountability for abuse carried out under their watch. Last year, we saw the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church recording more allegations of abuse...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: It will be introduced.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I will write to the Taoiseach.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: The Government has to take responsibility and deliver the homes people need.