Results 1-20 of 81 for carers speaker:Ivana Bacik

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

Ivana Bacik: Health is an holistic issue and we deserve a Government which recognises that. We need to ensure that staffing emergency departments, creating healthy workplaces and implementation of disability rights are taken seriously by this Government. It is welcome to see the incoming Taoiseach's re-commitment to ratifying the UNCRPD optional protocol, but we need meaningful measures to make change...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...to care and to social protection. We also should recognise the intersectional issues around care because while women overwhelmingly carry out care, many of those women who carry out care and, indeed, the men who are carers, are also disabled. Disabled people, in particular disabled women, are responsible for a huge portion of caring work in Ireland. It is one of the reasons the care...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the family, especially for the more than 15,000 cohabiting couples and their children - until recently, my family was one of those families - and for many other families, such as single-parent families, families where grandparents are carers and so on. It will have an important and positive impact on families like the family of John O'Meara, the father of three children from County...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the missing piece. Time and again during our extensive committee hearings, we heard from older people, disabled persons and persons who receive support and care from a whole range of different carers in a whole range of different settings and the concern was that an exclusionary definition of care would not provide sufficient valuing of the immense work that carers do, both paid and...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...should be recognised and valued both within the home and in the wider community. That was very clear in their recommendations and we took that up, explored it, had extensive engagement with different groupings – carers, women’s groups, groups representing disabled persons. We had extensive engagement and with cross-party support we devised a wording which we regarded as...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...children. We are appreciative of the immense work that has been done and the huge amount of preparatory work that has gone into this by the Minister, by his officials, by the committee, by the citizens' assembly chaired by Dr. Catherine Day and by all the civil society groups that have been working on this. I acknowledge that those groups are present in the Gallery. We have Ms Orla...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...also affecting other policies and other services the State should and could be providing. We have a chronic shortage of teachers in our schools. We all know this. We have a chronic shortage of carers and educators in our childcare settings and there is a real difficulty recruiting medical staff for our hospitals. The reason in large part is that so many people cannot afford to live...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...which I think we need. We are also very conscious of the need to ensure that the word "care" would be used to encompass consideration of the rights both of those being cared for and of those providing care so that we do not set up a hierarchy where carers rights are protected above the rights of those seeking care. We are concerned that the Government's proposed text on care is far...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...hear all the time from the parents of children who cannot get a special needs place or supports to enable their kids to fulfil their potential in our education system. Earlier today, at a Family Carers Ireland event, listened to the poignant testimony of a parent who cares for a child with special needs. It was profoundly moving to hear the hoops she has had to jump through and the...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...ageing and disabled population which is significantly increasing levels of caring responsibilities, while adding significant pressure on informal family and community networks; - as highlighted in Family Carers Ireland report entitled "State of Caring 2022", the lived experience of those providing informal care in Ireland reflects a stark reality where carers are experiencing significant...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...we proposed in the Joint Committee on Gender Equality and what the citizens' assembly recommended. In particular, we are concerned to see that, rather than offering a meaningful recognition of carers, it is reported that the draft will merely "strive to support the provision of care", which is a rather ineffective phrase. Furthermore, we understand from the reports in the newspapers that...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...speak for themselves and the Minister of State is well aware of them. Some 6,000 people on the waiting list have been assessed for home support but simply cannot access it. There are 18,000 care home carers but only 5,300 of them are directly employed by the HSE. The majority of home carers work in the private sector, often with poor pay and conditions. We need to see a real rewrite of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...saving treatments next year due to the decision not to provide dedicated funding for new drugs. We know that more than 6,000 people throughout the country are desperate for access to home care due to a lack of carers available. Almost 900,000 people languish on some form of health waiting list, more than 100,000 of whom are children and young people. Today we heard at the Committee on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...workers in section 10, section 39 and section 56 organisations. They do not want to go on strike. At a briefing organised by my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith yesterday, Martha Buckley, who is a carer for older people, said, “I’m going to be crying on the picket line, but we have no choice.” I have heard from constituents whose children will be desperately badly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Taoiseach back. My question to him today is who cares for the carers. We in the Labour Party are not sure that his Government appreciates the crisis in care. A protest is currently taking place outside the Dáil by childcare and early years education providers. We all hear all the time from parents, staff and workers in the childcare sector who are being failed. Parents...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...young children. She says her mind has gone to a very dark place due to her inability to secure a safe, affordable home for herself and her children that is near to her parents for whom she is a carer. These are just two of the families. I know all of us in the House hear from families with similar distressing stories and experiences because the chronic housing shortage is causing real...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ..., throughout the country. This includes the issues that have arisen in respect of difficulties getting diagnoses, difficulties with accountability in the HSE and, crucially, a review of the carer's allowance to ensure that it is fit for purpose for the many parents who are caring 24-7 for children with profound needs.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...bills. We know one-off payments cannot mitigate against the failure in the previous budget to increase sufficiently the minimum wage and minimum basic social protection rates, including pensions, carer's allowance and the fuel allowance. Why will the Government not increase the minimum wage to at least €12 per hour in this mini-budget and why will it not increase social welfare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Higgins wants to get in on a third round. At this point, I wish to ask a question relating to recommendation 11. We have covered a broad range of issues within the remit of the witnesses and the remit of the committee. Mr. Hession said that while recommendations 10 to 12, inclusive, on the care of older people and the care of people of disabilities do not fall directly within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is very interesting. When we looked at this when we had the carers’ organisations in with us, we saw this huge increase in the State recognition of the numbers of people caring and the implication that has for policy, as well as the gendered implications.