Results 1-20 of 880 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...tell us they want to pivot from building offices to building homes and they want supports for that. They want supports to enable them to build the houses and apartments people so badly need. So long as building targets remain inadequate and low, they are left playing a waiting game. I appeal to the Minister again to act on the Housing Commission's' report and to publish the revised...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...for Irish survivors of thalidomide Bill, which was listed in the spring legislative programme, apparently been dropped from the summer legislative programme published in April? Is the Government no longer preparing that Bill? Are we seeing a further delay in any meaningful engagement with thalidomide survivors, who have been waiting so long for justice?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...We have been proud of Ireland's steadfast support for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the horrendous killing in Gaza and the return of all hostages. Yet, those actions are undermined as long as Ireland remains financially embedded in Israel's economy. While trade ties remain with Israel, we are indirectly funding all that we find so abhorrent, such as the incursion into...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the unjustifiable delays in getting tests for new drivers. Those tests are a very important component of road safety. I am glad to see the electric scooter regulations being introduced. They are long overdue and will be another important component of road safety. In particular, our motion calls for greater enforcement of road traffic laws by the Garda, a matter that Deputy Smith...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...recorded as homeless in official statistics in March, including 4,174 children. It is a truly shameful figure. That excludes all the desperate people who are forced to sleep in tents, including those along the Grand Canal about whom we spoke earlier in this House who came here seeking refuge but who are sleeping in tents because the Government has made such a mess out of the asylum...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the reports by pointing out the real risks of delay, particularly if there is a legislative change in the funding structure. He also points out that the shadow of bogus self-employment has long lingered over RTÉ and, indeed, that it is not confined to RTÉ. While I very much welcome the Taoiseach's provision of a timeframe for the decision on the sustainable funding model,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the long-awaited publication yesterday of the three external reports examining governance, human resources and finances at RTÉ. As we review the content of those reports, however, people around the country are amazed and alarmed that our national broadcaster, the organisation to which they pay the TV licence fee every year, continues to be mired in controversy. In more than...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...across the country, it is slowing down responses from local authorities to those facing eviction and it means that many people are still on the sharp end of this housing crisis. When will the Government accept that it is unacceptable to wait so long before we see publication of the higher targets? When will it accept there is far too little urgency or ambition on the delivery of housing...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the fact that at last we have seen a full and reserved State apology offered by the Taoiseach this afternoon. That apology comes following last Thursday's historic verdict, in the State’s longest running inquest, of unlawful killing, which has been so significant for all affected. The length of the inquest hearing, of course, pales in comparison with the long quest for truth...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...area of Dublin Bay, we are seeing real problems for our accredited UNESCO biosphere and the loss of blue flag status because of sewage outflows. Again this needs to be sorted. The Dublin Port Company has for a long time dominated plans for Dublin Bay. We are looking for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to veto planning applications by the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...in these amendments, which it argues will simplify the compulsory acquisition process. This relates to the bigger problem of the current compulsory purchase order, CPO, process taking far too long. That is generally agreed. With thousands of properties lying vacant and a scourge of vacancy and dereliction countrywide, there is an understanding that we need to streamline and simplify...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Minister for his comprehensive response and for providing some clarity on the publication of the proposed land value sharing and urban development zones Bill. We are conscious it has been long awaited. It is on this basis that we proceeded with these amendments. As I said, we had already produced a Bill that passed on Second Stage in the Dáil in June 2021 on this very issue....

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

Ivana Bacik: ...Rabbitte, on the issue of the reimbursement of payment for private assessments of need. I am also glad to hear that the Minister of State will soon launch the national autism strategy. It is long overdue. Will the Taoiseach give us a timeline on that? The reality, of which I think we are all aware in this House, is that parents of children with neurodiversity or autism have to fight...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on approving student accommodation schemes, in light of the approval of the long-term student accommodation policy approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...duration of a planning permission from five years to three years. I have listened closely to the Minister's responses on amendment No. 779 and Deputy Boyd Barrett's points. Five years is too long. If the Minister is saying that two years is too short a time, then three years seems a reasonable period. The purpose would be to incentivise the commencement of active planning permissions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...stand over that, however, because while I think all of us focus on housing, as that is where the biggest need is, namely, the need to see the delivery of homes, the reality is that having an overly long duration facility for planning also has a knock-on effect where that relates to non-residential sites. What we are seeing, therefore, is vacancy leading to dereliction. There are vacant...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...to his party's Ard-Fheis on Saturday. With just 50 weeks until a general election must be held, that speech presented an opportunity to set out a new programme for his party and indeed for the Government. It was a long speech, and in less than one year, the Minister, Deputy Harris has promised to do more than his party achieved in those eight wasted years of prosperity I referenced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing delivery targets for 2024 under the various leasing initiatives; if he will provide a breakdown by Part V, SCHEP long- and short-term leasing, and the targeted leasing initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15174/24]

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....

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

Ivana Bacik: ...a 10 per cent increase in Dublin; and — the regulation of short-term lets is being blocked by the European Commission, while analysis last week shows over 18,000 entire homes for short-term rental on Airbnb compared with only 2,007 for longer term rental on Daft; further notes that: — tenants live in fear of receiving a notice to quit from their landlord, and there is...