Parliamentary questions

Hospital Waiting Lists

Ivana Bacik

1494. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the South/South West Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form. [16880/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Ivana Bacik

1495. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the RCSI Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form. [16881/23]

Hospital Services

Ivana Bacik

1656. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting 12 hours or more at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and to date in 2023. [17618/23]

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

1657. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the process to include the cancer medicine, verzenios, for reimbursement under the medicine access scheme for persons diagnosed with breast cancer. [17621/23]

Abortion Services

Ivana Bacik

1663. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he has read reports of concerns that abortion services in Ireland may collapse [17633/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

9. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [13432/23]

Departmental Properties

Ivana Bacik

18. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15090/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

27. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. [15092/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

6. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [13431/23]

Ukraine War

Ivana Bacik

15. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine will next meet. [15091/23]

Departmental Offices

Ivana Bacik

25. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [15089/23]

Housing Policy

Ivana Bacik

329. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the organisations and stakeholders he and his Department officials met with as part of deliberations regarding the lifting of the eviction ban. [15456/23]

Housing Policy

Ivana Bacik

330. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to conduct modelling on the effect of the lifting of the eviction ban; and if this modelling will inform the development of contingency plans to mitigate the risk of increased pressure on homeless services. [15457/23]

Housing Policy

Ivana Bacik

331. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to give tenants first refusal of their landlord's property will fix the sale price at the market rate. [15458/23]

Schools Building Projects

Ivana Bacik

401. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the names and locations of the 58 schools which have had construction paused; if her Department maintains data on the shortfall of primary and secondary school places in each of those respective areas; and, if so, if she will present that data, in tabular form. [14942/23]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

536. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the practice in place to ensure that homeless international protection applicants have access to the daily expenses allowance and other material resources; his further views on the practice in place to ensure that international protection applicants resident at Citywest transit hub are paid the daily expense allowance; if these practices were introduced recently; if so, his views on the practices in place prior to these systems’ introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15423/23]

Assisted Human Reproduction

Ivana Bacik

718. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether retrospective declarations of parentage can be dealt with prior to the establishment of an Assisted Human Reproduction Regulator under the provisions of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15260/23]

Church-State Relations

Ivana Bacik

1. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [11009/23]

Gender Equality

Ivana Bacik

7. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the events in his Department to mark International Women's Day; and the measures he has taken to improve gender equality in his Department. [11058/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

12. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [13428/23]

Northern Ireland

Ivana Bacik

2. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [9677/23]

Departmental Meetings

Ivana Bacik

18. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [13427/23]

Health Strategies

Ivana Bacik

25. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [13430/23]

Departmental Bodies

Ivana Bacik

127. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the International Division of his Department. [13429/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

128. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee for Accommodation and Supports for Ukrainian Refugees took place. [13433/23]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Ivana Bacik

363. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his views on the allocation of capital funding for construction of schools in Budget 2023; his plans to commit additional funding to ensure construction can resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13023/23]

State Bodies

Ivana Bacik

442. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on delays in response times by the Residential Tenancies Board; his further views on how current delays compare with wait times in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13100/23]

State Bodies

Ivana Bacik

443. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to allocate additional staff to the Residential Tenancies Board. [13101/23]

Referendum Campaigns

Ivana Bacik

444. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the proposed referendum on housing will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13102/23]

Equality Issues

Ivana Bacik

445. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to collate and publish data on LGBTQ+ homelessness in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13103/23]

Rental Sector

Ivana Bacik

446. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if proposals to give first refusal to tenants, where their landlord seeks to sell their property, will include measures to offer second refusal to local authorities. [13104/23]

Housing Schemes

Ivana Bacik

447. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to amend the tenant in situ scheme to introduce mandatory local authority purchase for certain tenants who are supported through the housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme. [13105/23]

Rental Sector

Ivana Bacik

496. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the average wait-time for a response from the Residential Tenancies Board to landlords seeking to register a tenancy in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [13749/23]

Schools Building Projects

Ivana Bacik

678. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education her views on the pause placed on 58 new school buildings; if current delays are expected to affect the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13021/23]

Schools Building Projects

Ivana Bacik

679. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she will report on her representations to the Minister for Public Expenditure in respect of capital funding pressures preventing the construction of 58 schools; and if she drew his attention to the shortfall for construction of schools in advance of Budget 2023, in particular. [13022/23]

Special Educational Needs

Ivana Bacik

693. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the number of persons waiting for a laptop, tablet or other specialist software under the assistive technology grant; how this figure compares with previous waiting lists in 2020, 2021 and 2022; if priority will be given to students sitting State examinations in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13099/23]

Departmental Bodies

Ivana Bacik

980. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the steps involved in making a complaint to Pobal in respect of an alleged breach of Core Funding; and if it is possible for complainants to remain anonymous. [13748/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1090. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Courts Service. [13491/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1091. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Prison Service. [13492/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1092. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by An Garda Síochána. [13493/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1093. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Legal Aid Board. [13494/23]

Departmental Staff

Ivana Bacik

1113. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of staff employed by the Irish Immigration Service; and his plans to appoint additional staffing. [13829/23]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

1114. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice his plans to institute a guaranteed timeframe for the completion of naturalisation applications; and his plans to clear the backlog in applications. [13830/23]

Healthcare Policy

Ivana Bacik

1352. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health his plans to prescribe dedicated training for HSE-funded personnel administering sexually transmitted infection tests, and providing support to persons living with HIV to ensure that patients do not experience stigma in individual clinics. [13097/23]

Healthcare Policy

Ivana Bacik

1353. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure holistic supports for persons with a HIV+ diagnosis. [13098/23]

Housing Policy

Ivana Bacik

82. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to restrict no-fault evictions here; the number of units purchased by each local authority as part of the tenant in situ scheme in each county throughout the eviction moratorium; and if he is satisfied that data sharing arrangements with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, are adequate for prioritising tenants facing no-fault eviction who are particularly vulnerable to homelessness, in the context of the scheme. [12189/23]

Driver Test

Ivana Bacik

177. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the number of driving testers in each county, in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form, and if he has plans to recruit additional driving test staff. [12005/23]

Driver Test

Ivana Bacik

178. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the number of people waiting for a driving test in each county in each month since February 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on any change in the waiting times for driving tests. [12006/23]

Northern Ireland

Ivana Bacik

5. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island initiative. [11010/23]

Economic Policy

Ivana Bacik

10. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government’s response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [11007/23]