Results 121-140 of 892 for long speaker:Ivana Bacik

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...Labour are unequivocal about this. Coillte must adopt a new approach. They must plant more publicly-owned forests and partner with farmers to support farmers in developing new forestry on their own lands to provide a long term sustainable income, as the Minister suggested in his speech, and to help Ireland meet our climate targets. The proposed fund appears not to make any sense in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...candidate? What evidence is there that the employees were paid personally rather than through a corporate account to put up the posters? Is it acceptable to the Taoiseach that there was such a long delay between the Minister apparently becoming aware of this inadvertence or error in disclosure and the rectification of that error, which came only as recently as the past few days? Is that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and Fine Gael have failed to move further with the necessary reforms. Deputy Brendan Howlin's Public Sector Standards Bill 2015, which would overhaul SIPO and give it the necessary extra powers it has long sought, was last debated in this Chamber exactly seven years ago, on 20 January 2016. It was then stalled and shelved by the Government in July 2020. When will the Taoiseach commit...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...funded childcare system. We need the roll-out of free general practitioner, GP, care from the Department of Health, particularly for children, and we need the scandal of children with disabilities waiting long months and years for assessments to be given the attention it deserves. On climate, despite the fine rhetoric of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, what we see is a pattern of...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the care they need. Ireland remains far too dependent on fossil fuels, with surging use of energy in data centres and the failure to build the offshore wind generation capacity that we have been promised for so long and which is so sorely needed. The failure of delivery on so many fronts should have re-fashioned the agenda and policies of the Government. Instead, what we are seeing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...been previous attempts to delete the gendered or sexist language from the text but they have come to nothing because there has not been a cross-party or cross-civil society consensus on this. We have come a long way towards achieving that. Will the Government commit to holding a referendum on those three recommendations in 2023, as all members of our committee have asked?

Death of Private Seán Rooney: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...for Ireland at this time. We are all conscious of the immense courage of our Defence Forces personnel and the immense sacrifice both they and their families give in being away from home for so long. It must be especially hard at this time, with this shocking news, for the families of all Defence Forces personnel serving overseas and, indeed, for all of those who are abroad on...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...I will finish by referring to a project in my constituency, namely, the construction skills programme being run by the St. Andrew's Resource Centre, Pearse Street in conjunction with Dublin Port. People from the long-term unemployment register are upskilling in order that they can take part in construction and in order that we can meet our labour skills shortage in construction.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...but it is also welcome because it will see us having to promote collective bargaining in law and having to move away from the voluntarist model that has characterised collective bargaining for too long in this State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...concern at the rushed-through nature of this planning law. The Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill is, as we have said, and through our colleague, Senator Moynihan, the latest in a long line of housing, residential and planning Bills that have been sought to be passed into law at the last minute before either a summer or Christmas recess. While we completely support...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...constituents about dead birds, dead seagulls and even dead foxes on the beach. Others have spoken of dog fouling. It is a serious issue. There are huge concerns regarding sewage. We have spoken about the Ringsend waste water treatment plant. Not long ago, 300,000 tonnes of sewage sludge was dumped into Dublin Bay every year. Welcome measures are under way to address this, but we...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...to take the Bill. I appreciate his having given me a commitment in October on the floor of the House on the need for year-round water quality monitoring. That is something I have sought for a long time. I will start by acknowledging his commitment to that and asking if we might have a timeline for when that might be brought in. I welcome our visitors in the Gallery who are here from a...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...well aware, was to replace rent supplement, which had become a poverty trap, and to ensure a short-term way for people to address issues around housing. It was never intended to become the significant long-term issue it has become. What we have seen over the past six years has been a failure by Government to deliver on the necessary State investment to ensure the construction of...

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...