Results 161-180 of 10,619 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on conditions for international protection applicants sleeping in tents in congregated areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13153/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1250. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include pharmacists in the MMR catch-up programme, given the current GP shortage, which may delay the provision of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bereavement Certificate (20 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1298. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent legislation passed in Westminster to create an optional bereavement certificate for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks' gestation; and his plans to introduce a similar initiative here. [11946/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Reports from Gaza this week reflect the utterly horrific and worsening suffering of people there. It is not only the 30,000 dead under the brutal Israeli bombardment but now we are seeing children in Gaza dying of starvation. It is appalling, a man-made famine unfolding before our eyes in Gaza, with despairing families and aid workers, and stalling on peace talks. We still see this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Two days is how long the son of pharmacist Niall O’Sullivan waited on a trolley in University Hospital Limerick emergency department before receiving treatment for a fracture. Mr. O’Sullivan spoke powerfully of his son's experience on RTÉ radio this morning. This is not the first time I have raised the human impact and dangers of hospital overcrowding with the Minister....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister's response could be characterised as "Nothing to see here". That is clearly not an adequate answer for all the patients who are languishing on hospital trolleys, for the overworked staff and for those whose procedures at UHL have been cancelled without any indication of when they will actually take place. Every time we raise the reality of overcrowding in hospitals and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The patent fact is that the spending is not enough to meet the demand. That is evidently true from HIQA reports and from the experiences of patients and of overworked staff in understaffed hospitals. Where is the sense of leadership? Where is the sense that somebody is steering this ship, that it will be all hands on deck to ensure the crisis in hospitals is addressed and that we can...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, could we get a copy of the Minister of State's speech? He is rattling through it and it would be great if we could a copy of the speech.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Government housing targets are simply too low, and not delivering the necessary number of affordable homes; — as we approach the one-year anniversary of the lifting of the temporary no-fault eviction ban, Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) data shows 19,011 eviction notices were issued in 2023, and 61 per cent of these were...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Guím Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan sona ar gach éinne sa Teach. I wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. On behalf of the Labour Party, I am glad to mark International Women's Week and, in particular, International Women's Day on Friday. The need to mark it is self-evident because, while we have made great progress on women's rights in Ireland, we are of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Today, more than 1,000 people are seeking international protection here and are sleeping rough on the streets of our capital city, many of them in tents less than 1 km away from here in Mount Street. Leaving people on the streets in poor weather risks lives. Emergency measures were put in place when there was public outcry during the snow last week. However, on Monday, those vulnerable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday's dramatic statement by the former chair of the RTÉ board, Siún Ní Raghallaigh, clearly raises more questions for the Minister, Deputy Martin, and, indeed, the Government to respond to. I echo the calls that have been made for statements, questions and answers to be scheduled before the Dáil this week so we can finally put this matter to rest, because this has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the news the Government will not be opposing the Labour Party motion. That is welcome. That is constructive. However, not putting down a Government countermotion will be an empty gesture if there is no movement or delivery and no attempt to implement the important measures we have proposed. I agree with the Taoiseach when he says that change is not coming quickly enough. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Once again, the RTÉ soap opera is distracting vital attention from the disastrous situation facing those who are at the mercy of our broken housing system. Right now, 13,531 people are recorded as homeless, including more than 4,000 children, and 18,000 homes are being advertised for short lets on Airbnb, while just 2,000 are available on Daft.ie for longer term rents. Rents are...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Properties (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that housing in barracks around the country is used. [10214/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the implementation of the next phase of the Dublin Network Redesign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10637/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a statement on the need for additional social and affordable housing in Rathmines and surrounds, including by way of Part V housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10215/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tourist Accommodation (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made representations to the EU Commission in respect of the need for regulation of online short-term tourist letting companies; and if he will report on the preparations his Department is making for when legislation to regulate such companies is passed and implemented. [10426/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a statement on the need to support older persons to downsize. [10427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private houses that local authorities are renting and subletting as social housing by local authority; the annual cost of renting these houses in each of the years 2018 to 2023 and to date in 2024, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10429/24]