Results 1-20 of 43 for esri speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish the updated housing targets for Housing for All based on ESRI modelling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16633/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...week. This affects more than just healthcare for people who are unwell. This week, my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith has been raising concerns about the privatisation of long-term residential care and home care. An ESRI report this month said 15 large private groups now control 38% of the almost 32,000 nursing home beds in the country. That same report says that the Government must...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...we will need to see 50,000 deep retrofit and refurbishments a year to address that vacancy and dereliction crisis that the Minister mentions. Those figures have been borne out by reports from the ESRI, by calls from Sherry Fitzgerald and Dr. Ronan Lyons. How many times does the Government need to be told its targets are not credible currently and will never meet the existing level of...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...it not adopt the credible targets for delivery for housing we just heard the construction industry stakeholders calling for in the past week? We heard the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, calling for it. Why will the Government not adopt credible targets for the delivery of housing?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...;il resumes today, the same issue continues to dominate for so many communities across the country and that is the issue of housing. The lack of rights for renters is particularly in focus today in an ESRI report showing significantly higher rents being paid by new tenants compared with what is paid by existing renters. We are told a renter moving into a new home can expect to pay 15%...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...State investment and massive ambition for change could deliver. We in Labour put forward a programme for delivery 1 million homes over ten years, based on the Government's own projections using ESRI data, IBEC proposals and constructive proposals from NGOs such as Threshold and Focus Ireland. We put forward this ambitious proposal in the hope that would be engagement from Government....

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...housing crisis can be addressed. It is simply not good enough for the Government to say it cannot address, for example, labour shortages or construction inflation. There are ways and means to do this. In December, the ESRI set out a range of measures that could be activated now by the Government to address labour shortages, such as an expansion of the list of skills on the critical...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and ambition from the Government to meet but they are necessary targets because what we are hearing, and not just from families who are forced into homelessness but also from employers’ groups, IBEC and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, is that the investment in housing by the State which we are calling for is necessary because without it, we will see a serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...obstacle to the actual delivery of homes across cities and towns across this country. We have seen this concern raised not only by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service but also by the ESRI in a report stating that State intervention is now needed to end land speculation and land hoarding and to see a speeded-up delivery of housing. In particular, we in the Labour Party...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and a real fear about rising energy bills are forcing many people to take impossible decisions between heating and eating, and putting so many individuals and households in fear. In June this year, ESRI data revealed that energy inflation had increased the number of households in energy poverty to 29%, the highest recorded rate, with a concern that this will increase further over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is very helpful. As Senator Warfield said, we dealt with this issue in last week's hearing with the ESRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...witnesses to our public hearing. I welcome Professor Helen Russell, a member of the expert advisory group to the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI. Professor Russell is accompanied by her colleagues from the ESRI, namely, Dr. Paul Redmond, who is very welcome, and Dr. Dora Tuda, who is joining via Teams. Our other witness,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There is a lot to respond to there. I will invite Professor Galligan to comment first. The first questions Senator Higgins had were on the gender quotas in the boards. I will go to the ESRI for a response after that and I see that Dr. Tuda wants to come in on that as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is a strong response to Senator Higgins's points and to Deputy Cronin's earlier points as well. We are running short on time and Senator Higgins asked some specific questions of the ESRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: .... Later in the term, the committee will hear from Waking the Feminists and we will ask its representatives about their ideas on that but I ask Professor Galligan to say a little on it. I thank Dr. Russell from the ESRI for the detailed data she provided. I will home in on the gender pay gap work she has done. I have done a good bit of work on this and I introduced a Private Members'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think those questions are for the ESRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We will get a follow up from the ESRI on some of the points made by Senator Higgins.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...whether the budget will increase social welfare payments in line with the rate of inflation? Will he introduce a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies at a time when, according to the ESRI, one third of households are in energy poverty? We believe a windfall tax would fund more targeted measures to address this. We also know that when announcing the summer economic statement...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise again the issue of the housing crisis, the crisis that our President has described as a disaster. Yesterday's Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report has confirmed yet again the scale of failure over successive years to ensure that people have adequate homes and the right to a home. Since this Government assumed office, rents have increased by 15%, house prices...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We know that there is a housing crisis, indeed a housing disaster. We know from today's ESRI report that there is a particular crisis for those who are renting and for those who are now facing the bleak prospect of having to rent at increasingly unaffordable levels right into their older age and therefore face no security of tenure, no security of accommodation. The ESRI report is just the...