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Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and on the engagement and consultation with the different groups involved. In my role as vice chair of the women's caucus, I am appreciative of the consultation with our members. We had long expressed a desire to see provision made for maternity protection for women representatives in local government. As the Chair of the Joint Committee on Gender Equality, I am glad to see this Bill...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...her quoting those. On a more serious note, I also welcome the President's officials and our distinguished guests today, the Ukrainian ambassador in particular. I thank the President for her words and her long-standing support for Ireland, both personally and through the Commission more generally, as we have moved through the ongoing fallout for this country from the Brexit decision and...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...her quoting those. On a more serious note, I also welcome the President's officials and our distinguished guests today, the Ukrainian ambassador in particular. I thank the President for her words and her long-standing support for Ireland, both personally and through the Commission more generally, as we have moved through the ongoing fallout for this country from the Brexit decision and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...towards a more secure and publicly funded service, lead to a guaranteed preschool place for every child? Will we see the sort of equal approach to early years childcare that Labour has been advocating for so long?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...cannot find a secure home. That is the problem the Government needs to address. All the legislation the Taoiseach described has not addressed that fundamental crisis and shortage. Supply is the long-term answer but let us see practical measures from Government on the tenant in situ scheme. Let us see the gap the RTB identified addressed. The Government must ensure the RTB has a...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...I thank colleagues across the House for the strong support that has been shown today for this important motion. I commend my colleague Deputy Ó Ríordáin, who is also our justice spokesperson. Long before he was our justice spokesperson, however, he led for us on the policy of decriminalisation and on bringing people with him to ensure we see a more practical,...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...institutions redress board, I offer the following observations about this format of inquiry. As the Minister noted, we should learn from pre-existing reports. Shamefully, these recent disclosures follow a long line of disclosures relating to the abuse of children in various institutions. Next year will see the 30th anniversary of the Kilkenny incest investigation report. I believe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...issue. Not only are perpetrators still living who have evaded any sort of sanctions to date, but there are those currently in leadership roles in particular schools who have been in those posts for so long, many decades in some cases, that it is very difficult to believe they did not have knowledge of the abuse that was being perpetrated there. In advance of next week's debate,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, that water quality monitoring would now take place year-round, in response to an ongoing campaign I have been running along with Deputy Carroll MacNeill. It is very welcome. In the interest of public health and goal 6, will the Government now inform swimmers about how to ensure safety in water as we see more and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...campaigns? Is there political oversight of these advertising campaigns? I welcome the news that the Taoiseach will be meeting the Irish Thalidomide Association tomorrow, 17 November. It is a long overdue meeting. Colleagues will be aware that I have circulated the text of a cross-party motion calling for action to be taken by the Government for the members of the association and...

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...volunteers and professionals who did so much in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and in the days and weeks since. Clearly, however, the hurt and pain and the loss caused will be with the area long after the physical debris is removed and the physical damage repaired or demolished, even after survivors have been physically healed. We are all conscious that the Garda investigation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister. He spoke of progress and of the potential for wind energy, but we have been speaking about this potential for a long time without having put in place the necessary infrastructure to deliver at scale on the sort of energy generation capacity offshore wind can provide. The Minister also spoke of the climate action plan 2023 and said it will go to the Government shortly....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...on track to reach a 2.8°C rise by the end of the century, and eight of the ten hottest years on record have occurred in the past decade. If we miss our global warming targets, we will not have to wait long to see the consequences. We are already seeing them now, with devastating floods in Pakistan, the devastating famine encroaching on the Horn of Africa, the drought there and the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...want to strengthen protections for renters. We want to ensure we will not see no-fault evictions taking place. In other European countries, such evictions are heavily circumscribed. We want similar protections for renters built into our legislation to ensure more long-term protections.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...for that for some time. I also support the amendments put forward in this grouping. At their most basic, what they seek to do is to ensure that an effective eviction ban will be in place for longer because the longer we can uphold the eviction ban legally and within the terms of the Constitution and the more we can limit the scope of any exemptions to it, the more households we can keep...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...energy policy and the circumstances that have led us to the point where we need to pass the second item of emergency legislation this year in order to secure energy supplies, not even in the long-term future but the immediate future. It raises questions about how we can achieve the necessary steps to ensure we make the transition to renewable energy sources and a net zero future. It is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., and at that point, the members sought a more co-ordinated structure, better management and better communication with local authorities and communities to ensure we would have a short, medium and long-term plan for the housing of refugees. Indeed, that plan had to include modular housing. We now hear that the Office of Public Works, OPW, will install 700 units of modular housing but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...legislation in this jurisdiction. The announcement yesterday by the UK's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland that the British Government would commission abortion services is welcome but also long overdue because women have for so long been denied access to basic healthcare. I was glad to attend today the timely launch by the National Women's Council of Ireland of the new report...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: .... I know he raised the plight of Palestine. I also want to raise with him the ongoing situation in Palestine where we are seeing a very serious escalation of violence by Israel as part of a month-long military campaign in the northern part of the West Bank with more than 100 Palestinians killed so far this year. This intensification of violence is deeply distressing to see. Does...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and his brutal army. It is disappointing that there was not engagement back in the spring or earlier in the summer by the Government to ensure that we would have short-term, medium-term and long-term planning in place in order that this would not happen. Back in July, I hosted a briefing here in the Oireachtas with members of the Ukraine Civil Society Forum at which they called for...