Parliamentary questions

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

10. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [49902/22]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

22. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Political Community meeting in Prague and the informal European Council meeting. [51662/22]

Departmental Strategies

Ivana Bacik

11. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [52892/22]

Departmental Offices

Ivana Bacik

22. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international unit of his Department. [52893/22]

National Economic and Social Council

Ivana Bacik

6. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [51663/22]

Departmental Bodies

Ivana Bacik

13. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [51661/22]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

19. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly. [49900/22]

Economic Policy

Ivana Bacik

4. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [49899/22]

Social Dialogue

Ivana Bacik

13. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [49904/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

22. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [49903/22]

Departmental Programmes

Ivana Bacik

149. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office based in his Department. [49905/22]

Citizens' Assembly

Ivana Bacik

150. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the expected timelines for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [51664/22]

Departmental Data

Ivana Bacik

152. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [51118/22]

Tax Data

Ivana Bacik

161. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51119/22]

National Lottery

Ivana Bacik

304. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the report on the independent review of the allocation and utilisation of National Lottery funding. [51120/22]

Defective Building Materials

Ivana Bacik

236. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline any changes to law or to procedures that have been or will be made, in order to ensure that homeowners will in future have effective remedies in the event of damage caused by defective construction or materials. [50960/22]

Commissions of Investigation

Ivana Bacik

5. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the IBRC Commission of Investigation. [49898/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

10. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [48472/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

19. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level oversight board for the zero tolerance strategy to be jointly led by the Secretary General of his Department. [48470/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

154. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet Committees that are in place; if he has created any new Cabinet Committees in the past year; the Cabinet Committee that deals with Energy; and the frequency with which it has met. [49901/22]

Housing Provision

Ivana Bacik

342. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all the section 10 organisations funded in 2021 and 2022, respectively; the amount allocated to each; the quantum of funding that was derived from his Department and the balance from local authorities in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50321/22]

Voluntary Sector

Ivana Bacik

543. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all section 56 funded organisations in 2021 and 2022, respectively, in tabular form; the amount of funding awarded to each; the way that the funding allocation for each makes provision for pay, terms and conditions of the staff employed in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49934/22]

Courts Service

Ivana Bacik

587. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if she will report on the establishment of an environmental and planning law court as set out in the programme for Government; if a budgetary allocation for the establishment of this court was made in budget 2023; if so, the amount; the number of judges envisioned to sit on this court; the number of staff and their relevant grades who will be assigned to work for the court; when the relevant legislation required to set up the court will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and when she expects the court to be established and in a position to hear cases. [49584/22]

Budget 2023

Ivana Bacik

643. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the National Cancer Strategy in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49585/22]

Health Services

Ivana Bacik

644. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the no-show rates at chemotherapy appointments at each of the designated cancer centres in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form. [49586/22]

Health Services

Ivana Bacik

718. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all section 39 funded organisations in 2021 and 2022 respectively, in tabular form; the amount of funding awarded to each; the way that the funding allocation for each makes provision for pay, terms and conditions of the staff employed in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49933/22]

Budget 2023

Ivana Bacik

152. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if persons who rent as licensees rather than as tenants will be eligible for the €500 renters credit announced in budget 2023. [49144/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

4. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [45730/22]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Ivana Bacik

16. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the shared island unit. [48471/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

28. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [48472/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

44. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [48473/22]

Tax Collection

Ivana Bacik

118. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if the new vacant homes tax will accrue to the local authority within which the empty home is based; if not, if it will accrue to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49102/22]

Local Authorities

Ivana Bacik

165. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the allocations in 2023 due to the increase of €108 million from the Local Government Fund for local authorities by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49103/22]

Exchequer Payments

Ivana Bacik

166. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding from the Local Government Fund for local authorities that retain 100% of the local property tax revenues will be reduced; the allocations from the Local Government Fund for 2022 by local authority; the projected allocations in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49104/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Ivana Bacik

238. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection is she will clarify the eligibility for the fuel allowance of applicants who cohabit with someone with whom they are not in a relationship. [48927/22]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Ivana Bacik

250. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022; and when the Bill will be introduced for debate in Dáil Éireann. [48666/22]

Ukraine War

Ivana Bacik

251. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a national breakdown of the number of accommodation places that each local authority has secured and made available to refugees from Ukraine in each month since February 2022 by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48669/22]

Ukraine War

Ivana Bacik

252. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a national breakdown of the number of offers of accommodation that have been received by local authorities from members of the public for refugees from Ukraine to Ireland since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, by local authority; the number of these that have been secured and made available to Ukrainian families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48670/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Ivana Bacik

256. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports that some autistic children are effectively excluded from ECCE funding in cases in which they are in receipt of funds from the Department of Education for autism services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48754/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

2. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [45727/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

11. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [45728/22]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

24. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the new British Prime Minister. [45729/22]

Schools Building Projects

Ivana Bacik

378. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the status of the new permanent building for a school (details supplied). [48111/22]

Schools Building Projects

Ivana Bacik

379. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the status of the new permanent building for a school (details supplied). [48112/22]

Childcare Services

Ivana Bacik

482. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a child who is in full-time childcare in receipt of the ECCE hours is eligible for further subsidies under the national childcare scheme for the other hours of childcare they receive on a daily basis; the number of children on the ECCE scheme who are in full-time care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48437/22]

Joint Labour Committees

Ivana Bacik

62. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the nominating bodies and appointees to the early years service joint labour committee. [47749/22]

Childcare Services

Ivana Bacik

214. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the early learning and care services that are in receipt of the graduate premium for lead educators and the graduate premium for graduate managers; and the sum allocated to each service, in tabular form. [47748/22]

Childcare Services

Ivana Bacik

215. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to make public the list of signatories to the new core funding model; and the consequences for organisations that sign up to the scheme but do not pass on the benefit of a fee freeze to parents. [47750/22]

Care Services

Ivana Bacik

216. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a list of all special care units in operation in Ireland is maintained and published; and if the location and details of certain units are kept confidential for security reasons. [47756/22]

Care Services

Ivana Bacik

217. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of Health and Information Quality Authority inspection protocols of special care units; and if he will report on the standard criteria applied to such inspections. [47757/22]