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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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the introduction of public provision of childcare, as recommended by the expert group report entitled Partnership for the Public Good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18120/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: ...in my constituency, and this arose at the hearings as well, has to do with the lack of availability of places. This lack is still not sufficiently addressed in the Government’s response to our report. The citizens' assembly and our report called for HSE-equivalent pay and conditions for home care workers and an examination of the intersection of care and social protection...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Irish Wheelchair Association launched a report earlier this week reviewing Government plans for bus stops, footpaths, cycle lanes, pedestrian spaces and other infrastructure. It examines how disability access will be included and provided for in public transport infrastructure. It concluded that the Government approach is chaotic and irresponsible, with no evidence of any mandatory...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...catch-up. The Rental Tenancies Board, RTB, and indeed local authorities simply do not have the enforcement powers they need to hold people to account. Renters live in fear of eviction. Recently, in the Irish Examiner, Michael Byrne said that nobody renting privately in Ireland now has a secure home. That is the truth, because a notice of termination may come through the door on any...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...? In particular, will the Government put an end to the dangerous recruitment embargo in the HSE? How will it address the projected deficit of 49,000 nurses by 2041, as reported by Sean Murray in today’s Irish Examiner? When will we see an end to the unfair low pay model in the community and voluntary sector, which is causing such problems in the delivery of homecare to those who...

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: ...the process that has led us to this point by way of setting a context before turning to the wording in the Bill. As I said, we published our report one year ago. Our committee had been tasked with examining the report of the citizens' assembly. That assembly, chaired by Dr. Catherine Day, met during Covid pandemic times between January 2020 and April 2021. In 2021, it produced a final...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (12 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has examined the prospect of instructing the Dublin Port Company to not submit a planning application for the proposed €450 million expansion of its operations on the Poolbeg Peninsula until the current review of the Government's national ports policy is complete; his views on the adequacy of the site adjacent to the site...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Christmas recess with this Bill, I very much hope we will not see that exercise repeated. Significant improvements to the Bill will be needed. I want to identify some of the areas we have examined, albeit that we have had a relatively limited time to peruse the 715 pages in the Bill. At its core, what we have been presented with, despite undoubted levels of engagement from...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...We are not hearing anything from the Government about what it is proposing to do for those facing eviction and families and children facing homelessness this winter. That is a serious issue. We need to move into a space where examining policies around basic renters' rights protections is something the Government will take on, rather than it always being contained in Opposition motions....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers still awaiting remuneration for invigilating and marking State examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46208/23]

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

Ivana Bacik: The Tánaiste's replies just do not pass muster. He spoke of a need for analysis and for examination but the reality is that the Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil are in government-----

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

Ivana Bacik: ...in a properly resourced health service. The Tánaiste is in government and it is simply not good enough to hear him speaking as if he were a commentator and saying there is a need for analysis and examination. He should do something about this situation, ensure the health service is properly resourced-----

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...had reduced for four consecutive months. It was a reasonable proposal but one the Taoiseach stated he, unfortunately, could not accept. Government figures have made it clear there is no intention even to examine the idea of an evidence basis for resuming the temporary no-fault ban. Some comments from members of the Government have revealed they do not understand what a no-fault eviction...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...families, friends and all those affected by the tragic deaths of Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall in Ios last weekend. The devastating losses of these two boys who had just finished the leaving certificate examination at St. Michael's College, Ballsbridge, has impacted so many. I offer my sympathies in particular to the school community at St. Michael's College, where I attended a...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...which is an extra and additional check on the framing of the offence. There is a valid concern around the evidential requirement about the recording of the warning. The Joint Committee on Health examined this matter in detail. Section 4(3) requires that a garda, when recording the warning, must also require that the person given the warning has to state his or her name and address. The...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...those losses were so we can assess what better use that money could have been put to elsewhere. Turning to the review the Minister announced today, we very much welcome that announcement. We welcome the Minister's statement that it would be a root-and-branch examination. It is going to be conducted in two strands and chaired by Professor Niamh Brennan and Dr. Margaret Cullen. We...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to grant extra time on examinations to candidates with dyslexia to complete State exams, both Junior and Leaving Certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28507/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is on target to complete action 2.10 of Housing for All to examine a system of holding rental deposits by the end of Q2 2023; and if he will make a statement on the anticipated process following its completion.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27196/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...those in my own constituency – parents who are facing eviction and desperately seeking a new home but who cannot tell their children they will very soon be losing their homes until they get through the State examinations. These families in my constituency are not alone. The latest figures, published by the Residential Tenancies Board just yesterday, record an increase in...