Ivana Bacik

811. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce proposals to add socioeconomic status as a grounds for discrimination under the Equality Acts as part of the Equality and Family Leave (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025; if the addition of same requires an SME Test; if she will report on her engagement with the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39044/25]

812. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the recent CSO publication “Equality and Discrimination 2024”; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39045/25]

906. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting more than 3, 6 and 12 months for a publicly provided food allergy test; and the average waiting time for a public paediatric allergy diagnosis appointment in each county, in tabular from. [38939/25]

1. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22233/25]

14. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [25318/25]

200. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been brought to concerns raised about a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37327/25]

322. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the national economic dialogue. [35902/25]

368. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the reason section 22 of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 has not been commenced. [37578/25]

539. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to amend the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if legislation to underpin the defects remediation schemes will be laid before the Oireachtas Housing Committee for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny before the end of 2025; and when the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill will be passed and commenced. [37810/25]

593. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection if the €20,000 cap for scholarship income for the purpose of claiming disability allowance, DA, will be revised in line with IRC stipends; and if the cap of "scholarships of up to €20,000" should be read as indicating that funding in excess of €20,000 is counted as means, or if scholarships in excess of €20,000 are counted as means in their entirety, for the purposes of claiming DA. [37577/25]

791. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health when section 232 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37326/25]

655. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 712 of 24 June 2025, her plans to amend core funding to restrict the keeping of deposits where a child does not avail of a place, either at all, or within a prescribed period; and her plans to review the rates of maximum deposits that can be charged. [35979/25]

1. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [18694/25]

10. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [18695/25]

182. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2024 and if he intends to host another competitiveness summit. [33574/25]

225. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 15 October 2024, the status of that report; its findings and his views on the need to municipalise waste collection. [33854/25]

271. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport for an update on how he has progressed the commissioning of a preferred route for the proposed Luas extension to Poolbeg since taking office; if he will supply a timeline in respect of constructive same; and if not, his plans to supply such a timeline. [34226/25]

461. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on changes to classroom arrangements at a school (details supplied); if she will ensure prefab accommodation is provided so that classes are not forced to share a room. [34528/25]

542. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through Land Development Agency investment in 2025; and the estimated amount of expenditure allocated to deliver same. [34229/25]

543. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of private rented accommodation inspections carried out by all local authorities in 2024; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in all local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34230/25]

544. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total value of grant payments issued by local authorities to persons who have completed works using the vacant property refurbishment grant in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number of applications made for the vacant property refurbishment grants in each county, in each month, in the same period, in tabular form; the number of drawdowns for the same grant in each county in the same period; and the average value claimed overall in each county. [34231/25]

622. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of fixed charge penalty notices issued in each month, in each county, since April 2024, in tabular form; the percentage increase or decrease that number represents as against the same month in 2023, in tabular form. [33751/25]

643. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to amend the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime ) Act 2017; and if he will address an issue regarding section 4(1), which introduces a distinction between victims’ rights pre-and post the legislation, where no such distinction is contained in the relevant Directive, leading to impermissible discrimination between victims. [34227/25]

644. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to amend the Parole Act 2019; and if he will address the need to ensure that persons such as the next of kin of a person (details supplied) are not excluded from future processes. [34228/25]

680. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people held in solitary confinement 22+ hour lock up for more than 15 consecutive days during 2024; the number of people held in solitary confinement 22+ hour lock up for more than three months during 2024; the number of people held in solitary confinement 22+ hour lock up for more than six months’ during 2024; the number of people held in solitary confinement 22+ hour lock up for more than 12 months’ during 2024; the number of people held in solitary confinement 22+ hour lock up for more than 18 months’ during 2024. [34527/25]