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Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is personalising the debate-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I do not wish to prolong the debate, although I am going to call a vote on this amendment. I just want to state we should not personalise the debate and I have resisted doing so. We should be courteous and respectful.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious of time and do not want to prolong the debate. I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive response on our amendment No. 1 and this group of amendments. I fundamentally disagree with his analysis of what it would take to implement a more aggressive suppression strategy, in particular his analysis of how long it would take. However, there is clearly a disagreement. I...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. On behalf of the Labour Party, I again welcome this important Bill. I am glad that we are seeing it move swiftly through the Houses and that we are all on the same page with it. However, I support Senator McDowell's proposal to present the amendments in a way that is more coherent. I spoke on Second Stage about the piecemeal way in which,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak and ask questions of the Minister of State. Other members covered a number of the issues raised with us in emails by parents of children with additional needs. They have expressed to us their immense frustration and told us of the terrible impact the prolonged school closures have had on their children and the regression they have seen. They are...

Seanad: Ábhair Ghnó an tSeanaid – Matters on the Business of the Seanad (22 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I join other Members in expressing my solidarity and great concern for the many staff of Ulster Bank who are facing such devastating news about the job losses resulting from the closure. I urge the Government to do all it can to ensure jobs may be saved in the sector. I wish also to ask the Leader to raise some matters with the Cabinet sub-committee on Covid. As Deputy Alan Kelly said at...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the House for permission to share time with Senator Mark Wall, with four minutes and two minutes.

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to the House. I thank the Minister for coming in to personally take the Bill. I commend my colleague, Senator Annie Hoey, on her great and passionate commitment to bringing the Bill before us and to ensuring the work of student nurses is recognised in this tangible way. This very simple and straightforward Bill seeks to ensure adequate payment and...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: We did. Senator Sherlock who spoke previously did so.

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, we submitted it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to second the proposal by my colleague, Senator Moynihan, to take No. 11, the Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021, at the end of the Order of Business. We are hoping to debate that on Second Stage on Friday. This, of course, is the Bill being proposed by our colleague, Senator Hoey, on payment for student nurses, which I know is a hugely topical and important issue. I also welcome the...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: First Stage (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I second the proposal.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I join in thanking the Minister of State for moving these amendments, which I fully support on behalf of Labour. It is very welcome to see common sense prevail, as Senator McDowell said. It is a good day for the Seanad as regards reforms being made here as a result of Private Members' and Opposition amendments being tabled. Clearly, however, there has been a problem with the overreach, as...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: -----who are covered. Joking aside, this is clearly a serious matter as regards political organisation, democracy and attracting people to become involved in political parties. That is why I very much welcome these amendments. I also welcome the Minister of State's positive comments on the previous Stages regarding the Magnitsky Act that Deputy Howlin and I, and others in Labour and other...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. On behalf of the Labour Party I welcome this important Bill, which we are glad to support, and I commend Senator McDowell and his colleagues for bringing it forward so swiftly after the judgment was delivered in the Court of Appeal on 29 October 2020. Senator McDowell had this Bill in with us in the first week of November. Other Oireachtas Members,...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. She is always very welcome. I thank the Leader for setting up this important debate. It is good to have the opportunity to speak on mental health and Covid. The number of speakers lined up this afternoon shows just how important it is and how seriously we all take it. I join with my Labour colleague, Senator Hoey, in acknowledging the immense...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: With the permission of the House, I will share time with Senator Sherlock.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: This Commencement matter is in the name of all the Labour Party Senators – Senators Hoey, Sherlock, Moynihan, Wall and me. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, to the House and thank him for taking this important issue. In late November, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, announced an eagerly awaited ban on the development...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for setting out the legal position. Of course, all present respect the independence and integrity of the planning process. However, as my colleague, Senator Sherlock, stated, the unfortunate net effect is that the ban announced by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, really does not amount to a ban. As Senator Sherlock and I have outlined, there is immense...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, support Senator Ward's amendments and the intention and spirit behind them. I have raised the important issue of codifying our criminal law to ensure consolidation of criminal statutes over a number of years in successive Seanad terms. There are some glaring areas of criminal law, not just money laundering and financial offences as Senator Ward will appreciate, such as, in...