Results 1-20 of 873 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...across the country, it is slowing down responses from local authorities to those facing eviction and it means that many people are still on the sharp end of this housing crisis. When will the Government accept that it is unacceptable to wait so long before we see publication of the higher targets? When will it accept there is far too little urgency or ambition on the delivery of housing...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the fact that at last we have seen a full and reserved State apology offered by the Taoiseach this afternoon. That apology comes following last Thursday's historic verdict, in the State’s longest running inquest, of unlawful killing, which has been so significant for all affected. The length of the inquest hearing, of course, pales in comparison with the long quest for truth...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...area of Dublin Bay, we are seeing real problems for our accredited UNESCO biosphere and the loss of blue flag status because of sewage outflows. Again this needs to be sorted. The Dublin Port Company has for a long time dominated plans for Dublin Bay. We are looking for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to veto planning applications by the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...in these amendments, which it argues will simplify the compulsory acquisition process. This relates to the bigger problem of the current compulsory purchase order, CPO, process taking far too long. That is generally agreed. With thousands of properties lying vacant and a scourge of vacancy and dereliction countrywide, there is an understanding that we need to streamline and simplify...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Minister for his comprehensive response and for providing some clarity on the publication of the proposed land value sharing and urban development zones Bill. We are conscious it has been long awaited. It is on this basis that we proceeded with these amendments. As I said, we had already produced a Bill that passed on Second Stage in the Dáil in June 2021 on this very issue....

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

Ivana Bacik: ...Rabbitte, on the issue of the reimbursement of payment for private assessments of need. I am also glad to hear that the Minister of State will soon launch the national autism strategy. It is long overdue. Will the Taoiseach give us a timeline on that? The reality, of which I think we are all aware in this House, is that parents of children with neurodiversity or autism have to fight...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on approving student accommodation schemes, in light of the approval of the long-term student accommodation policy approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...duration of a planning permission from five years to three years. I have listened closely to the Minister's responses on amendment No. 779 and Deputy Boyd Barrett's points. Five years is too long. If the Minister is saying that two years is too short a time, then three years seems a reasonable period. The purpose would be to incentivise the commencement of active planning permissions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...stand over that, however, because while I think all of us focus on housing, as that is where the biggest need is, namely, the need to see the delivery of homes, the reality is that having an overly long duration facility for planning also has a knock-on effect where that relates to non-residential sites. What we are seeing, therefore, is vacancy leading to dereliction. There are vacant...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...to his party's Ard-Fheis on Saturday. With just 50 weeks until a general election must be held, that speech presented an opportunity to set out a new programme for his party and indeed for the Government. It was a long speech, and in less than one year, the Minister, Deputy Harris has promised to do more than his party achieved in those eight wasted years of prosperity I referenced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing delivery targets for 2024 under the various leasing initiatives; if he will provide a breakdown by Part V, SCHEP long- and short-term leasing, and the targeted leasing initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15174/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: Two days is how long the son of pharmacist Niall O’Sullivan waited on a trolley in University Hospital Limerick emergency department before receiving treatment for a fracture. Mr. O’Sullivan spoke powerfully of his son's experience on RTÉ radio this morning. This is not the first time I have raised the human impact and dangers of hospital overcrowding with the Minister....

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...a 10 per cent increase in Dublin; and — the regulation of short-term lets is being blocked by the European Commission, while analysis last week shows over 18,000 entire homes for short-term rental on Airbnb compared with only 2,007 for longer term rental on Daft; further notes that: — tenants live in fear of receiving a notice to quit from their landlord, and there is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...to respond to. I echo the calls that have been made for statements, questions and answers to be scheduled before the Dáil this week so we can finally put this matter to rest, because this has dragged on too long. It is distracting from real business, such as housing and Government failures on healthcare. These are the issues we should be debating, but the chaotic goings-on at...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...all in the revolution together. Whatever about a woman’s place being in the revolution, I am struck by the old slogan, “A woman’s place is in the House – Leinster House”. We are still a long way off achieving equality in Leinster House, with only 23% of our TDs being women. To put it another way, 77% of our TDs are male, so we need to do much more in...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...achievement of gender equality. They are so careful and considered and cover such a broad range of crucial issues. We looked at how best we could ensure implementation of those 45 recommendations. Our report is 144 pages long. We attempted to present, the Minister in particular, and the Government as a whole with an action plan for how to implement those 45 recommendations. They...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...requirements regarding disability access and public transport infrastructure to meet international standards. The census tells us that more than one fifth of people report having at least one long-lasting condition or disability. These are people who will be affected by the lack of accessibility in our public transport infrastructure. Others with small children, including those who push...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: .... Let us look at facts. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association tells us the difficulty with filling permanent consultant posts is a root cause of what it in its words are "unacceptably long" child waiting lists. In August last year the association told us over 100,000 children and young people were on hospital waiting lists with 20,600 children waiting longer than a year for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...scale. In recent days, we heard the heartbreaking audio of the last hours of six-year-old Hind Rajab, pleading for help hours before she and her two rescuers were killed by Israeli fire, along with five members of her family. Back in October, the Dáil voted to call for a ceasefire. In doing so, we were one of the first parliaments in the world to make that call but while making...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Helping Irish Hosts and the Irish Red Cross for providing a positive and uplifting briefing this morning which I had the honour of chairing. I thank colleagues from across the House who came along to the AV room. We heard there are over 21,000 Ukrainians staying with Irish hosts, that 25% of displaced Ukrainians are in host accommodation and pledged properties across the country and that...