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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: As the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon increases and worsens, our thoughts are with all those killed, wounded, bereaved or displaced in that conflict. We must do more to stop the war and to impose effective sanctions on Israel. I met yesterday with members of Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine, who are doing incredible work trying to bring wounded children out of Gaza. They impressed...

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister, but with respect he has not answered the question about when the revised housing targets will be published. He referred to the legacy shortfall, but we acknowledge that. I think everyone recognises that. To go back to another canine analogy, we talked about the dogs on the street, but it is a bit like saying the dog ate my homework for the Government to say this is a...

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

Ivana Bacik: The Minister and his colleagues need to be dealing with it with more urgency and ambition precisely because of that shortfall and because there is a cumulative impact to inaction and falling short of targets. The longer targets are left unmet or too low, the more difficult it is to play catch-up. That is what we are hearing from the construction industry, which is trying to build but has so...

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

Ivana Bacik: We will not see the targets this side of the election.

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

Ivana Bacik: I return to the issue of housing. It is the single biggest issue we all hear about every day across every constituency and community. It is at the root of so many problems holding back our country and people. The Minister and his Government colleagues are well aware of this. There is the exodus of nurses, midwives and doctors from our shores, which was one of the issues debated in a...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This Bill and the amendments from the Seanad give us an opportunity to address that bigger issue of the Land Development Agency. We in the Labour Party certainly supported the Land Development Agency in principle. We think it is a vital vehicle to deliver homes at scale, affordable homes that we badly need. However, as Deputies Ó Broin and Boyd Barrett have pointed out, there are real...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Education is the great liberator, but that is if you can get an education. In Ireland in 2024, as we have learned today, 44 pupils across the country are being taught at home because there is no school place available for them. A further 150 young people are receiving home tuition because of anxiety or mental health issues but also in many cases because there are just not enough staff in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Oh shut up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Apologies, a Cheann Comhairle, but I have really had enough of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his constructive response. A Cheann Comhairle, I apologise for my language earlier but I am sick of taking insults and abuse on cycling from Deputies who believe that God above is in charge of the weather and who have no record of taking the climate crisis seriously. I have no time for that nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I have no time for that nonsense when we are----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, I want to address the Taoiseach's response to me. Government policy is taking teachers for granted, notwithstanding his response. We still have some of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in Europe. The Government promised a citizens' assembly on the future of education which seems to have been quietly dropped. We want to know when the Taoiseach will address the teacher...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith who has led for us on this important motion. As Deputy Smith has said, this is the last Labour Party Private Member's motion in the lifetime of this Dáil. It might even be last Private Member's motion. In any case we thought it was vitally important we would put it down on the issue of healthcare and especially healthcare staffing. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Taoiseach's comments this morning that he is looking for a pathway to progress the occupied territories Bill. That is welcome. I also note, however, that he said it will be challenging to see it passed before the election, whenever that will be. On this side of the House, I think we would all be willing to facilitate the speedy passing of the Bill, given the ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate for the Dublin Bay Bill 2021. [42821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of work to develop a new migrant integration strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43220/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (22 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 754. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a crèche at the new national children’s hospital. [42822/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Next week, the Labour Party will table a motion on the crisis in healthcare for patients and staff. Throughout the country, trade unions representing healthcare workers are holding lunchtime protests because the new de facto recruitment embargo is leaving vital positions unfilled and, therefore, putting patient safety at risk. It is taking up to a year to fill vacancies and when someone...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of courses that have been cancelled by Solas in 2024 to date that were offered in 2023; how many in total were offered in 2023 and 2024 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42130/24]