291. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is satisfied by the adequacy of measures in the Planning and Development Act 2024, intended to disincentivise and criminalise the practice of seeking or offering money to withdraw planning objections where persons do not have a genuine interest in amending or objecting to plans. [53297/25]
409. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on departmental reviews of the temporary release of persons convicted of certain offences and section 29 of the Judicial Council Act 2019. [53301/25]
619. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 953 of 30 September 2025, the reason Ireland has not advocated deletion of Article 1 paragraph 10(a). [53296/25]
620. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of older persons who have applied for home care support through the HSE and who are awaiting the allocation of home care in each county, in tabular form; the average wait time for same; and her views on the sustainability of the section 39 model in this respect. [53299/25]
621. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to HIQA in respect of nursing homes in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of adverse findings made in each of those years; and the counties in which there were the highest per capita incidence of complaints made. [53300/25]
4. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [48431/25]
19. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [50150/25]
721. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department maintains a policy on the purchase of data from companies engaged in real-time bidding on location data of Irish citizens by its agencies; details of the policy, if it exists; and if his Department, or agencies under its auspices, have engaged with, or purchased data from, companies engaged in real time bidding on loc…
722. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the need to address crime and antisocial behaviour in the southeast inner city. [51869/25]
826. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the progress to amend the Equality Acts and related legislation to include socioeconomic status as a protected category in the context of discrimination. [52153/25]
953. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the position in respect of the revision of the EU Directive on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, specifically in respect of medicines related to sexual and reproductive health (details supplied); if the Government will support the removal of this provision, in line with the position of several other Member States and with the vote ta…
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234. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation his views on the need for all OPW-managed sites to have life-saving equipment. [49895/25]
417. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of the pension security for persons who remain at a disadvantage due to unpaid caring responsibilities; if his Department will carry out fresh analysis on the class and gender impacts of this feature of the social protection system; and if he will report on his stakeholder engagement in respect of same since. [50263/25]
469. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to tackle theft and damage of life-saving equipment in public places; and his views on the need to ensure that good samaritans are not penalised for using such equipment in good faith. [49897/25]
483. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the progress to roll out restorative justice service provision as promised in the Programme for Government; his plans to provide year-on-year additional funding to ensure all counties have community-based restorative justice programmes; his plans to increase referrals through the restorative justice system; and if he will make a statem…
484. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to progress the Criminal Justice (Promotion of Restorative Justice) Amendment Bill. [50262/25]
495. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the need to prioritise international protection applicants who are sleeping rough; his plans to prioritise provision of accommodation for single male international protection applicants who have not been granted accommodation since December 2023; his views on the adequacy of processes currently in place for proving such pe…
620. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health her views on the need to provide life-saving equipment in addition to AEDs and life rings; and her plans to issue new guidelines on appropriate life-saving equipment to provide to schools, sports clubs and other such bodies. [49896/25]
678. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of people in each month of 2025 who have been discharged from nursing homes; the proportion of same who were recipients of fail deal supports; and for a breakdown of the reasons for these discharges, in tabular form. [50346/25]
6. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [48430/25]
66. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will next meet. [48433/25]
107. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagement with Tunisian authorities in respect of the treatment of Irish citizens participating in the Freedom Flotilla. [48873/25]
529. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 974 of 8 September 2025, if delivery of the permanent school building is due later in the calendar year or the academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48443/25]
698. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of occasions on which officials from his Department met with Dublin City Council regarding the regeneration of Pearse House in each of the past three years; and the timeline for approval of the revised stage 2 plans for phase 1 of the regeneration. [48872/25]
929. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of thefts of companion pets reported to An Garda Síochána in each of the past three years and to-date in 2025. [48869/25]