Results 1-20 of 123 for going forward speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (23 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for the information he has provided and for the tables of data which I will go through with great interest. I also thank him for his kind comments. I note, as the Minister of State said, this is an ongoing issue and I thank him in particular for speaking in a little more detail about the requirement in the 2017 Act for a report after a three year period on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive and enthusiastic engagement with us. We very much appreciate that and we look forward to working with him further as we go through our work over the coming months. I thank him and his officials.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It must be terrible not to be informed of an ongoing revolution - Senator Leyden was involved in the creation of the HSE so he would know about such matters. Senator Healy Eames raised the issue of Ms Maíria Cahill. I have already addressed this and expressed concerns regarding the cover-up, how she was treated and the need for sensitivity when dealing with survivors of sexual abuse...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There are reports today that IBEC has raised concerns about the introduction of statutory domestic violence leave. Will the Government commit to moving forward swiftly with the adoption of such legislation? We believe most employers want to ensure supports are available to employees and workers experiencing domestic, sexual or gender-based violence. They want to offer them those supports....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2020)

Ivana Bacik: .... Undoubtedly, it has been a very tough year. At this time, we also remember the many who have been bereaved or whose health and livelihoods have been so badly affected by the Covid pandemic. We look forward to a better year for us all in 2021. Today is International Migrants Day. I look forward in the new year to making rapid progress on our citizenship law, being brought forward by...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is a strong symbol of this Government's commitment to third level education to see the Grangegorman campus finally going ahead and the DIT being moved from 39 locations in which it is located across the capital. That is really excellent and it will also rejuvenate that inner city area. There will be investment in health - in primary care centres - in transport and in the justice area. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We will support any measures that will see the delivery of housing. However, the difficulty for many people is that they are not seeing that outcome. They are hearing the Government listing off plans in progress, preparation being made or issues that will deliver on momentum, but they are not actually seeing the delivery of affordable homes for themselves or their children, friends and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., this price increase will have serious implications and ramifications for her household budget and the budgets of many households across the country. The credit unions told us that about one third of families go into debt to pay the cost of being back to school. The mother I spoke with joked that between the cost of returning to school and other rising costs, her credit union's loans...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for indicating he accepts that. That is fair. Finally, without going back over the points my colleagues have made on these amendments, I ask the Minister to consider accepting them. As I think the Minister himself said last night, he will bring forward his own amendments to significant parts of the Bill, notably section 44, on Report Stage. He has again indicated a...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I join others in welcoming the new Senator, Gerard Craughwell, to the House. He will bring a particular expertise in education and I look forward to his participation in debates on education legislation and statements on education. As others will agree and many Ministers have remarked, a strength of this House lies in debating legislation, particularly on Committee Stage, where the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...us to do our work and for sharing her views and expertise. I thank all colleagues and stakeholders who attended yesterday's launch of our interim report on constitutional change. We all look forward to resuming our hearings on the final module, module E, on recommendations relating to workplace pay and conditions and leadership, politics and public life in the autumn. Go raibh maith...

Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...there is an urgency to this Bill in the sense that people have waited so long for it. On the other hand, we have had two years and three months between Second Stage and Committee Stage and the Government amendments are coming in now, one month before the end of the session. There could have been more haste earlier, not to mix metaphors. We acknowledged the need to bring this forward...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the €2.25 billion stimulus package announced by the Government today. It is greatly welcome, in particular as it is a job-rich public stimulus programme. The infrastructure projects being put forward by the Government in a range of areas will provide for significant levels of employment in those areas and they will also be of great public good. I refer in particular to the...

Seanad: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I just want to voice my support for the amendment. We are putting it forward again in a constructive manner, as we have done throughout the process, in order to try to ensure that the legislation is strengthened. To reiterate what Senator Nash said about confidence in the system, it is welcome to hear the Minister state that the numbers of women going for cervical screening have increased...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...effectively with this exemption, which we are all agreed should be removed. I particularly want the Minister, Department and commission to have time to consider the more radical proposition put forward by Senator Zappone, namely, that the offending section in its entirety be deleted. This would be by far the preferable model if it would pass constitutional muster. I agree with others...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: People are crying out for speeded-up delivery of new homes. Every time any of us go out and meet people at any point, that is all we hear. It is across communities and multi-generational. It is the civil rights issue of our times. The Government is not going to publish revised targets until the autumn, when the incoming Taoiseach announced at the Ard-Fheis on Saturday that 250,000 homes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...of measures designed to get struggling communities through this bleak winter and beyond. Unfortunately, that was not what we saw yesterday. What we saw was money spread so thinly that it will go unnoticed by many, and many of those who will benefit will be struggling already by the time the winter is out. There is little there to address the structural problems that make people so...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the national minimum wage to address the cost-of-living crisis confronting households. With inflation rising, it is clear Ireland needs a pay rise and that people need to see the pay in their pockets go further. The 30 cent increase in the minimum wage that came into effect in January has simply not been enough to address the rising costs facing our lowest paid workers. Ireland is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Government's announcement today that it will bring forward measures to address the gender pay gap. I very much welcome anything that will bring that forward. However, it is a pity, and I said this to the Minister for Justice and Equality, that the Government did not see fit to use the existing legislation, the Private Members' Bill, that we introduced in this House, which...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...about, relating to the difficulties for those who remain undocumented. All of us welcomed the Minister for Justice's announcement of the regularisation scheme, an important and positive step forward, but are we still going to see significant gaps? I have been working with my Labour Party colleagues on a born here, belong here campaign to try to get a better, more generous pathway to...