Results 21-40 of 879 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

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...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...now have private healthcare of this type. Access to affordable quality healthcare is not a luxury nor should it be. Decent care is not something that should be the preserve of those with deeper pockets. For far too long, there has been an over-reliance in Ireland on the private market to counter the failures of and fill the gaps in the public system so we see long waits and delays and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I too welcome the good news about the progress overnight in Northern Ireland towards the long overdue restoration of the Stormont institutions and the executive. Is í tithíocht an cnámh spairne is mó sa Stát. Tá géarghá le níos mó tithíocht a aimsiú agus a thógáil go práinneach ach teastaíonn go leor...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...the Ireland that people voted for in the 2015 marriage equality referendum. The Labour Party has been a proud and very vocal ally of the LGBTQ+ community for decades. This Bill represents another page in the long chapter on the Labour Party’s role in fighting for LGBTQ+ people. My predecessor and then Tánaiste, Eamon Gilmore, aptly described marriage equality as the civil...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: .... I know the Taoiseach appreciates that, but his Government’s policies are hurting people in hospitals, not helping them. I am talking about the current HSE recruitment freeze, overcrowding, long waiting lists, the trolley crisis, a retention crisis and a lack of community supports for those discharged from hospital. The list goes on. Every week, we all hear healthcare horror...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...now, even with the improvements listed by the Taoiseach, Conor Sheehan's family's story is not unique; it is replicated across the country. It is an indictment that we have come to accept that long waiting lists in hospitals are somehow normal. People go to hospital to get better. Hospitals should not be a place where conditions will worsen while people languish awaiting a bed. Our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...a Private Member's Bill last Thursday to deal with that, to address that issue and to provide for reproductive health leave. We were very disappointed that the Government sought to put in a year-long stay on debate on that Bill. We will vote tomorrow night on that 12-month delaying amendment and because the House will likely not be sitting in a year's time, a year's delay amounts to...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...for the first time of early pregnancy loss and of IVF treatment and reproductive health issues. We worked on the Bill for some time and, in March 2021, I published this legislation as a Senator, along with other Labour Party Senators, to provide statutory leave to those suffering so-called early miscarriage, pregnancy loss early in term or needing time off for reproductive healthcare...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...the current sexist language within it, which refers to a woman as having a life within the home and mothers as having duties within the home. The language in Article 41.2° of the Constitution has long been regarded as outdated, anachronistic and sexist. It is based upon gender stereotypes which should have no place in a contemporary constitutional text, confining women and mothers...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...that. I recently attended the launch of the Cherish archive and was struck by the immense stigma and shame that surrounded cohabiting couples and children born outside of marriage for far too long. We have all acknowledged that and it is time our Constitution reflected a change in our society. Since we are sharing experiences, I was a happy cohabitee for many years before finally...

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 text in the thirty-ninth amendment Bill refers and is in some ways contingent upon the text in the fortieth amendment Bill. I am glad we have finally got to this point. It has been a long journey to get here. I, personally, have been very closely involved with this process for a long time. As Chairperson of the Oireachtas Special Committee on Gender Equality and previously as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...in the new year. We all understand these concerns are justified. No one needs reminding, as the RTB report did today, that the private rental sector is totally overwhelmed. There are metres-long queues for house viewings for rentals, and we hear stories all the time in our constituencies about people being forced to bid on rental properties and being unable to find any rental properties...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...for adequate data to be maintained on care. The submissions of stakeholder groups highlighted the lack of data on care, meaning that the Government is really hampered in trying to develop the long-term planning that is needed. We do not have really robust data on the projected needs for care and the number of those providing care. This is an opaque area. I listened carefully to what...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...how the care economy in Ireland relies heavily on the private marketplace and informal family and community networks to access care, and while the State funds a significant amount of formal child and long-term care, it is delivered mainly by private-for-profit services, and in contrast to paid work, participation and the time people spend in informal care activities is rarely measured; -...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and will have to keep staying in their childhood bedrooms. Equally, I meet people who are a little older. Just last week, I spoke to a constituent approaching their fiftieth birthday, who is in long-term rental, with a decent, fair rent, but who is in absolute terror that at some point, they will be served with a notice to quit and will simply not be able to afford anywhere to rent, and...