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An Dáil a chur ar Athló - Adjournment of Dáil (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We, too, believe we should be reconvening on 15 January. So many urgent challenges face our society. Indeed, we have just spent the bulk of this afternoon outlining what those challenges there, and I think there is actually agreement on that. Even the Government acknowledges the immense challenges, particularly on housing and healthcare, and the immense challenges that may indeed arise due...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Congratulations to all of those newly elected and returned TDs, as we take our seats today for the first time in the Thirty-fourth Dáil. I am immensely proud of my Labour Party colleagues sitting around me in our newly enlarged parliamentary party. Deputies Alan Kelly, Ged Nash, Duncan Smith and I are delighted and thrilled to be joined by seven new Labour Party Deputies, namely,...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle, and congratulations on your election to your new role. Like others, I wish to pay tribute to the outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Ó Fearghaíl, for his work and his commitment to the reform of procedures in the House. We look forward to working with you. It is good to be back, and I think all of us in this Chamber share that sentiment....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: On the last sitting day of the Dáil, I add my own words of thanks on behalf of the Labour Party to you, a Cheann Comhairle, and to all the staff here in the Oireachtas who make the complex run smoothly for all of us. I thank them for their great help and support over this term; it is deeply appreciated. As we face into our own election, we are all conscious of enormous impact...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I am not taking that any more from that corner of the House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Many Members, from Government and Opposition, looked for decent bike parking.

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

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the serious issue with the Taoiseach concerning the rights of a murder victim's family. Two young women, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, were murdered in 1976 by John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans acting together. Evans later died in prison. Shaw is serving a life sentence and is before the Parole Board for review. Shaw was never convicted of Elizabeth's murder. He was...

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

Ivana Bacik: Similarly, I call on the Taoiseach and the Government Whip to amend the Order of Business so we can see the passage of the occupied territories Bill this week. We have agreement across the Opposition that we will facilitate it in every way we can. We have all offered Private Members' time and our co-operation to ensure it can now pass through Committee and Remaining Stages. We understand...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: While I welcome the very late publication of revised targets, I regret the fact they are being published so late. It is just not good policy-making to set targets that are too low for too long and then at the eleventh hour, one month before many offices will close for Christmas, to bring in new targets, especially when they are not being funded adequately. I have serious concerns about the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I have already responded on that and I am not going to take that again. I am not taking it anymore.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: By all accounts, this will be the last time the Taoiseach and I speak during Leaders' Questions. I want to ensure constructive engagement rather than engaging in cheap political shots. That is important. It is fitting that I ask the Taoiseach about the issue that, above all else, has defined his Government's term in office, the housing crisis. This affects every family and every...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 15 October 2024, if he expressed views on the policy options that are being presented or discussed by the Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September; and the reason Ireland did not join the taskforce. [44081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Climate Change Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 15 October 2024, if he will provide an update on policy options relating to new sources of climate finance; the importance of this issue as it relates to the upcoming negotiations on a New Collective Quantified Goal at COP 29; his view on which option or options are best suited to best deliver climate finance;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the introduction of an insurance scheme (details supplied); if he has heard reports that 1 in 20 buildings is challenged when accessing flood insurance; and the options being considered by his Department to ensure that a scheme is in place to underwrite flood risk. [44812/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish data on future demand for a new secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin; if she will make a statement on projected demand for special education in the area; and if she will report on her engagement with a group (details supplied). [44803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on reform of her Department since taking office. [44804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the sale of a two-acre site adjacent to a school (details supplied); and if her Department assessed the feasibility of constructing a second-level school there. [44805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for applying different rules as regards contributory pension credit eligibility for family carers who have provided unpaid care for fewer than twenty years, compared with other persons who access State payments, such as jobseekers or long-term carers. [44976/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of deploying inspectors to assess compliance with State benefits for family carers, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [44977/24]