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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Alert Programme: Muintir na Tíre (4 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The witness gives west Cork as an example. I grew up in Cork and I know west Cork well. Excluding cities such as Dublin, does Muintir na Tíre have a role or does it have a different approach in small towns or urban centres around Ireland? There are growing concerns about late-night public order offences in town centres. Can any of the work done by Muintir na Tíre in rural areas...

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 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...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Ivana Bacik: In answer to Senator O'Toole and speaking as someone who grew up in Cork, the interests of God and Munster are often conflated.

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]

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Like other colleagues, I will begin by expressing my condolences to the families and communities in counties Limerick and Cork for the terrible tragedies that have happened there. I echo the words of other Members who have spoken of the need to ensure the maintenance of funding for mental health services. This is without making any specific connection but all Members are conscious that this...

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...generally across the House and by NGOs. Everyone with an involvement in penal reform or prison work will be aware of the unfit, inhumane and sub-standard conditions currently pertaining in Cork prison and the urgent need to ensure those conditions are improved and the prison is rebuilt. There is general welcome for the Bill from all, including the Penal Reform Trust and the Jesuit...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...funding frameworks and assurances as to adequacy of pay and pay increases for staff employed through the mechanisms I have described - Tusla-funded section 56 organisations in that case. I was in Cork on Monday and heard from parents of children with autism and other disabilities about the difficulty accessing services through organisations that are finding it difficult to retain and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Order Paper contains a motion regarding the construction of Cork Prison that will be taken without debate. I welcome the fact that a new facility will be built on a site that has been condemned for many years for its poor prison conditions by international and national inspectors. I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on the greater and more general issue of prison building and...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Ivana Bacik: ...Reform for a debate on prisons policy? It is generally overlooked as the cliche is that there are no votes in prisons. People are locked up for long periods. Last night, three young mothers in Cork were locked up for long sentences. The question never asked is what purpose does this serve? While the Minister is proceeding on the prison building programme at Thornton Hall, left to him...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...stag hunting, which seems to raise passions. Before anyone accuses me of being involved in the urban-rural divide, I grew up in the country and remember people following the fox hunts on foot in Cork, so I know it can be part of a community. However, there are other ways of doing it, such as drag hunting and so on. It is important to remember that the Greens, while they are supporting...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...-surgical evaluation capacity. Separately, the HSE has advised that the Beaumont Hospital and the executive are working jointly to fill the posts necessary to support the service development. In Cork, the service plan for 2013 is currently being drawn up and the HSE advises it will be finalised in the coming weeks. The provision of additional staff for that unit is being considered as...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...-surgical evaluation capacity. Separately, the HSE has advised that the Beaumont Hospital and the executive are working jointly to fill the posts necessary to support the service development. In Cork, the service plan for 2013 is currently being drawn up and the HSE advises it will be finalised in the coming weeks. The provision of additional staff for that unit is being considered as...

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...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...greater equality and diversity in our politics. I thank Ms Gleeson and Ms Reilly from Women for Election; Ms Farrell and Dr. Maher from See Her Elected; and Dr. Buckley from University College Cork. We are grateful to them all for sharing their experience and expertise. We really appreciate and value their input.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Deirdre Hargey, Lord Mayor of Belfast (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...Seanad welcoming in a Lord Mayor from a different city. I hope we will continue to do so. I note this is the start of a series of engagements we will have with lords mayor from other cities, Dublin and Cork, but I hope also Galway, Limerick and, indeed, Waterford, my father's own home city. I would like us to continue this engagement, to extend it beyond Ms Deirdre Hargey, as we are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...Taoiseach for the report on the Cabinet committee on education. A number of relevant questions arise. First, when will we see a date for junior certificate results? I note a events company in Cork is suggesting it will be around 12 October. Approximately 130,000 students and their parents are waiting the results but no date has been set. I would welcome a response on that issue. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...matter. We are seeing an inconsistent level of services being provided for children with autism across the State. Yesterday, I had the privilege of visiting the wonderful Rainbow Club in Mahon in Cork. The Taoiseach is familiar with Karen and Jon O'Mahony and their great work in providing supports to parents and, crucially, to children from a young age right through to teenage years...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure others will want to join me in commiserating with everyone who has been affected by the appalling weather during the past 24 hours. The pictures from Cork and other places that were affected are extremely dramatic. ESB crews have been out in all weathers trying to restore power and many householders and business owners have been trying to protect their properties from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: An agreement with the Catholic Church on patronage was reached in March to cover five towns that currently have no multidenominational primary school provision and to cover the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway and encourage greater levels of divestment in keeping with parents' wishes. The proof, however, will be in how many schools change their status, given the Catholic Church...