Results 1-20 of 84 for cork speaker:Ivana Bacik

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

Ivana Bacik: ...No. 48. I am thinking of great projects like the Burrenbeo Trust project done in County Clare, the Blackwater Valley project and the biodiversity regeneration in a dairying environment, or BRIDE, project in County Cork. These are great projects which are taking that principle, running with it and showing the benefits for all. I am delighted to see recommendations around marine...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...out of consciousness from pain and exhaustion. Despite that, there was no capacity to give her timely care. These cases are not isolated. Whether it is UHL, Tallaght Hospital, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Cork University Hospital, St. James's Hospital or anywhere else, every day now, sick people who go to hospital in Ireland seeking treatment are arriving to find that it is...

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

Ivana Bacik: Last night in Dublin city centre and in Cork, we saw hundreds of delivery workers in high-vis gear on bikes take to the streets to strike and to protest against the exploitation they face because of the practices of online platforms like Deliveroo and Just Eat. We know that platform workers such as delivery drivers are paying a very high price for our convenience. These workers have been...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...quarter 3 of 2022 and the same quarter in 2023, and 18% more than the average rent for existing tenants in Dublin. Existing tenants pay, on average, €1,788 per month in Dublin, up 4.3% year on year. In Cork, the Minister's own area, new tenants now pay an average of €1,386 per month, an increase of 8.8% year on year, while existing tenants pay an average of €1,170...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the publication schedule for the 2024 Walking and Cycling Index reports for Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2239/24]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Dublin Bay South constituency for the next election. That ward has moved in and out of Dublin South Central and what was Dublin South-East, and is now Dublin Bay South, over many years. We all know different examples. We have all seen this with Wexford and Cork where constituency boundaries have been drawn and redrawn. People then no longer have certainty over the electoral area in...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Dublin Bay South constituency for the next election. That ward has moved in and out of Dublin South-Central and what was Dublin South-East, and is now Dublin Bay South, over many years. We all know different examples. We have all seen this with Wexford and Cork where constituency boundaries have been drawn and redrawn. People then no longer have certainty over the electoral area in...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... This would have been avoided if two six-seaters could have been created instead. With Tipperary split into two three-seaters, a portion of north Kilkenny was redrawn across provincial lines. Again, six-seaters would have addressed this change. In Cork we saw the most unlikely and bizarre redrawing. The town of Mallow, long a feature of Cork East constituency, has been transferred...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express my solidarity with the communities across Cork, notably east Cork, and west Waterford, today living with the utter destruction of yesterday's flooding from Storm Babet. I want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues, Deputy Sherlock and Councillors John Maher and Cathal Rasmussen, in paying tribute to all those who took such efforts to help...

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

Ivana Bacik: I will begin by expressing my solidarity with the people of Cork and west Waterford who have been impacted so severely by the flooding yesterday. I will return to this later. I want to raise the issue of healthcare spending. Last Tuesday the Government presented a "Once upon a time, in a land far, far away" sort of budget that was full of gaps with dodgy estimates. It has been exposed in...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... We know that is not the case and, in fact, the future for farming is through sustainable methods. We have seen wonderful examples of that across the country, such as projects in the Burren and the Blackwater Valley in Cork. Change in the way we farm may be required but there are enormous opportunities and benefits for farming communities there as well. This is one of those benefits....

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...only a one-year mandate, and they are not directly elected. That has led to a democratic deficit and a lack of co-ordinated thinking across our urban centres. Dynamic cities like Dublin, but also Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick, are hampered in competing on an international stage with other cities. We all acknowledge that the lack of a more substantial position of metropolitan...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...contribution to Irish music, society and culture. I also want to express my sympathies on behalf of Labour to the family of John Murphy. John was one of two men who suffered severe injuries at a Cork Stryker plant in April and he sadly died last week. Our thoughts are with his family and friends too. Last night, in an announcement that was a surprise, it is fair to say, and a shock, 650...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...be a lifeline for children and parents, but we are coming from a very low base. From all around the country I hear stories and experiences from people like those involved in the brilliant Rainbow Club in Cork or the Special Needs Action Group I met in Athy in Kildare on Monday. These are groups of parents who have come together because they are in despair at the lack of services offered...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I express my thoughts, sympathies and solidarity with the two workers injured following the explosion at the Stryker plant in Carrigtohill, County Cork, on Tuesday. We understand one of those workers remains in a critical condition on life support. I extend my solidarity and that of my Labour Party colleagues to the workers and their families. My office and that of my colleague, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...-resourcing have put lives at risk and a full security audit is now required. The INMO have called for this after the awful fatal assault on an 89 year old man in the Mercy University Hospital, Cork. Our thoughts are with his family. Will the Taoiseach commit to the holding of a security audit of our hospitals? There has not been one since 2016. For years healthcare workers have had...

Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...facilities. There are lofty public transport goals in the climate action plan, including progress on continuing the programmes of work; advancing BusConnects in five cities; MetroLink; DART+; the Cork area commuter rail programme; PSO electric bus fleet procurement, including depot charging upgrades; and investment in passenger freight rail. These are flagship infrastructure projects....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...glad to launch the conference of the Southern Taskgroup on Abortion and Reproductive Topics, START, on 1 October. START is a group of doctors providing front-line services that was initiated by Cork-based GPs, obstetricians and gynaecologists. Doctors are seeking to ensure there is a stronger network across the country, and we are seeking to ensure strengthened access to reproductive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and that notion that if a person cannot see it, he or she cannot be it, is so important. We need to have visibility of women. There is no such thing as a token woman. My great friend Kathleen Lynch in Cork used to say that all her life, she voted for mediocre men and that just once, she would like the chance to vote for a mediocre woman. That is the reality. That is why we need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...leadership in politics, public life and the workplace. We are delighted to have representatives from Women for Election and See Her Elected, as well as Dr. Fiona Buckley from University College Cork, joining us today. I welcome the following: Dr. Buckley, lecturer in the department of government and politics in UCC; Ms Caitríona Gleeson, CEO of Women For Election; and Ms Megan...