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Wed, 15 May 2024
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An Garda Síochána
Ivana Bacik
71. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the statutory functions of An Garda Síochána in compiling statistics on the prevalence of certain types of theft and robbery offences; and where those functions are conferred. [21913/24]
Wed, 15 May 2024
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Childcare Services
Ivana Bacik
89. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children accessing early childhood education and school age childcare on the NCS sponsorship subsidy; if he will provide a breakdown of same by county, in tabular form; and if he will provide a breakdown of same by way of percentage of those in community and private services. [21917/24]
Wed, 15 May 2024
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Childcare Services
Ivana Bacik
90. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of referrals for NCS sponsorship by each of the Minister for Education, the Minister for Justice, Tusla, the HSE and local authorities in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [21918/24]
Wed, 15 May 2024
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Childcare Services
Ivana Bacik
91. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average childcare fee paid by parents in each county in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the lowest childcare fee paid by parents in each county in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and the highest childcare fee paid by parents in each county in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [21919/24]
Wed, 15 May 2024
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Childcare Services
Ivana Bacik
92. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated percentage of Government funding, as against private fees, funding the early years sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21920/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Air Quality
Ivana Bacik
141. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the Government’s clean air strategy. [21908/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Environmental Policy
Ivana Bacik
142. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will make a statement on the waste and circular economy action plan. [21909/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Environmental Policy
Ivana Bacik
143. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will make a statement on the circular economy unit in Government. [21910/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Road Safety Authority
Ivana Bacik
230. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the functions of the Road Safety Authority in relation to compiling and analysing data to assess the cause and distribution of road traffic accidents; and where those functions are conferred [21911/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Equality Issues
Ivana Bacik
522. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in light of the recent report (details supplied), he will outline the timeline for the introduction of socioeconomic status as grounds of discrimination in the Equality Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21565/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Citizens' Assembly
Ivana Bacik
63. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when a citizen’s assembly on the future of education will be established. [20844/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Ivana Bacik
279. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the safeguards in place to ensure that public monies committed to owners’ management companies under the defects remediation schemes will be spent in their entirety on remediation works. [20475/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Programme for Government
Ivana Bacik
374. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the reason she will not meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the implementation of the Multi-Unit Developments Act [20472/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Programme for Government
Ivana Bacik
375. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the reason her Department cannot issue regulations on service charges and sinking funds under sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act; and if she will make a statement on the development of the interim remediation scheme and the drafting of legislation for the full remediation scheme for defective apartments and duplexes with respect to those provisions. [20473/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Programme for Government
Ivana Bacik
376. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the reason her Department will not review the Multi-Unit Developments Act; and if she will make a statement on the Programme for Government commitment to review the Act. [20474/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Programme for Government
Ivana Bacik
377. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if draft regulations under sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act were delivered to her Department in February 2022; and the reason these regulations have not yet been issued by her Department. [20476/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Programme for Government
Ivana Bacik
378. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if she will make a statement on the need to regulate owners’ management companies. [20477/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Departmental Policies
Ivana Bacik
380. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if she will report on the written standard operating procedure for returning asylum seekers between the UK and Ireland, as agreed in November 2020; and if the document is publicly available. [20493/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Hospital Services
Ivana Bacik
640. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health when provisions of the Public Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 will be commenced to bring private hospitals into the remit of HIQA for the purpose of investigation of adverse patient events. [20877/24]
Thu, 2 May 2024
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Foreign Policy
Ivana Bacik
109. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh - Artsakh region of Azerbaijan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19923/24]