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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Ireland is now facing". We cannot sign up to that. Housing for All is clearly not equipped to deal with what are described euphemistically as our "housing challenges". The words "crisis", "disaster" and "chaos" feel far more appropriate, particularly to those we all meet every day in our communities for whom housing is the single biggest crisis. Of course, the Minister is entitled to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Alpha may be the first to have worse outcomes than their parents since the foundation of the State. A National Youth Council survey shows that a third of respondents under 30 rarely or never feel optimistic about their future, citing the housing crisis and mental ill-health as reasons for this. I will continue to raise the housing crisis in this House - we know the serious impact it...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...for the first time is shocked. It is that visceral response we need to think about during the debate over the next week. I will be engaging in a number of debates and putting the yes-yes side. As one colleague told me, it is a matter for us to reflect on how we would feel on International Women’s Day, and two days later on Mothers’ Day, if there were a no vote on the...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the application was made by me. Because I am not the birth mother, I am not recognised as my son's parent and may not claim Irish citizenship by descent for him. You will appreciate how this made us feel, coming especially at Christmas, when thoughts of family are paramount. We were shocked that this is the case for same sex couples in Ireland... All we ask is that our children are...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...same-sex female couples will be similar to the rest of the population. While there is no need for such couples to obtain the services of fertility clinics, which can be costly and medically invasive, we know that some couples may feel this is not sufficiently private and personal for conception. All families are different, so a variety of reasons may underpin a preference for...

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...issues. I will finish by recounting something that was said to me by a woman who experienced or suffered or endured what we call an early miscarriage. She said that language of early miscarriage does not reflect her feeling or the feeling of her partner in losing what was a much-wanted pregnancy. As she said to me, often that so-called early miscarriage has followed many years of...

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...men who have disclosed the trauma of pregnancy loss to me had never shared it with others. The publication of this Bill and the debates on it in the Seanad that followed have uncovered a groundswell of feeling out there. We have talked about an unspoken tsunami of grief and the sort of loss that so many have experienced. It is, in fact, a very widespread issue but it is an unspoken one....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...a developer to pay more than €500,000 into an escrow account, in exchange for the withdrawal of an appeal to An Bord Pleanála. The party also insisted on the use of a confidentiality clause to cover it up. This feels like a return to the bad old days. In the correspondence I received, I saw evidence that this issue was brought to the attention of An Bord Pleanála months...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to call on colleagues to come into town last Thursday. We have seen issues such as policing in Dublin being run on overtime for some time and policing nationwide being run on a shoestring by gardaí who feel they do not have the legitimate and requisite supports. It is not good enough. I asked the Minister whether the Commissioner had offered to resign, and I ask her again. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...destruction that resulted from the awful riots we saw that evening. I condemn outright the outrageous violence we saw unfold on our streets, the streets of our capital city. Nobody here has a monopoly on the distress we all feel in the aftermath of last Thursday but there must be accountability for what occurred. Those shocking events have brought home to us all the true extent of...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...deterring those who would seek to obstruct women's access to legal healthcare. It will have an encouraging and incentivising effect to ensure more doctors, healthcare providers and hospitals will feel empowered to offer this important service and join those who are already doing so but who, in many cases, may feel isolated in particular areas and who are facing intimidation. The Minister...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...that cultural view of home helps still remains. One woman who has been working as a home help for years says that she has to race between clients, that she is on the clock, and that she does not feel she has the time to give her clients the warmth and the social connection which is such an integral part of home help work. Deputy Duncan Smith spoke about the recruitment and retention...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On the subject of housing, it is easy to feel like a broken record in this Chamber from time to time. We in the Labour Party have been repeating the same mantra, that the Government needs to build more houses and it needs to raise its targets for housing because they are too low. Yesterday I pointed out the mystery of the missing billions with the absence of any indication as to where...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to take ownership of the issue. We understand that union membership has increased fivefold in affected workplaces in recent weeks because people who work in the community and voluntary care sector feel they cannot trust or rely on the Government to treat them fairly. Will the Taoiseach do the right thing, rather than, once again, leaving staff and service users foundering until the last...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...offered real change, not just in childcare where we have a costed package to cap fees at €50 per week and build towards a publicly funded model of childcare, but also in our cost-of-living package which would have supported all households who are feeling the pinch, lifted the boats of those with least and crucially provided for sustainable improvements to public services. Instead...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...pregnancy each year and the many hundreds who are still having to travel abroad years after we voted to repeal the eighth amendment and so long after we voted for compassion in a crisis. This is something I feel strongly about, having been involved in pro-choice campaigning for as long as I have. If I had been told 30 years ago that it would take so long to achieve a position where women...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...be for women who are accessing such services. Also, there will be a critical mass to stand up against the intimidation that some GPs are continuing to experience where they are providing services. If they feel isolated within their own local area in providing such services, clearly that is a difficulty. It does not help when we are seeking to ensure that more GPs provide such services....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...It is essential. It is simply not enough for those employees who believe they may be on bogus contracts to themselves have to go to the Department about it. That is simply not a reality for those who feel vulnerable. Again, yesterday, at the NUJ protest, we heard from Trevor Keegan, a so-called "evershed" employee, one of those who had to fight tooth and nail for decent conditions. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...RTÉ is due to issue a statement at 3 o'clock but it seems we are all in the dark until we see that statement as to the answers that we await concerning the issue of secret payments. Everyone will feel immense solidarity with the staff of RTÉ who are on ordinary employment contracts and who are trying to get on and do their jobs to the best of their abilities in keeping with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: If so, if they did not tell him anything about this, does he feel that he has been left in the dark?