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Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Next Monday.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sports Facilities (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I have put down this matter to ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on the use of Defence Forces playing fields in the Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W areas by local sports clubs. This relates to an ongoing issue which has been the subject of some correspondence between the Minister and me and has been the subject of a motion before...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sports Facilities (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for the response and for the stated commitment that the Defence Forces will continue to play a role in the community by facilitating sporting organisations and schools to use its facility. I recognise, as does everyone, the enormous contribution of the Defence Forces to the community and should have stated that at the outset. It is very much appreciated that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to have been selected last night as the Labour Party candidate in the Dublin Bay South by-election. I thank all of those who supported me. I look forward to the campaign, although I am conscious that we will be very mindful of public health guidelines as we come through this awful pandemic, which has caused so much heartbreak for so many. I know that issues relating to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: The Oireachtas has voted and passed legislation. Terminations of pregnancy are legally available in Ireland and women need those reproductive health services. I am proud to be one of the people who campaigned for the repeal of the eighth amendment. We all stand in solidarity in the context of the result of the referendum.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: It is bit rich of the Senator to complain, three years on, about the result of the referendum.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am not pro-abortion. I am pro-choice.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Cathaoirleach. This is an issue on which language is important.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: We must remember the thousands of women in Ireland who have had abortions, their families, women who face crisis pregnancies and the awful catastrophic diagnosis that so many women and their families have faced in the context of fatal foetal abnormality. We need to be sensitive in our language. Talking about people as being pro-abortion, as Senator Mullen consistently does, is insensitive...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I sat and listened to Senator Mullen. I sat and listened to his insensitive language and I responded, as is my right. I used my time on the Order of Business to do so.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am not in breach of anything today. I sat and listened.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I sat and listened to you.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, I sat through Commencement Matters when the Senator consistently interrupted and barracked a Minister. This is his own pattern of behaviour in the House.

Seanad: Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (17 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for coming in today to take this important debate. It is one which I and many other colleagues called for last week but, very sadly, the conflict has escalated since then and, appallingly, we have seen even more killings of civilians, particularly of children, in the intervening period. It is even more important, therefore, that we speak...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, to the House to take this important issue on the provision of a timeline for the opening of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units and ASD outreach classes in schools in Dublin 2, 4, 6 and 6W. In these areas in Dublin Bay South, there is a serious shortage of places in autism units and ASD outreach classes for children. This is a matter of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for her response and I welcome her comments about being committed to better planning. I also welcome that, from September, there will be 1,200 additional places. However, I did not hear from her any commitment as regards places in Dublin 2, 4, 6 or 6W. These are the areas where there is a pressing need for local places. Children are being bussed out of their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to take strong issue with the comments of Senator Mullen just now as to the reporting of RTÉ. Senator Mullen needs to remind himself that in 2018 the people voted by a two-thirds majority to repeal the eighth amendment having had sight of the legislation proposed to bring in legal abortion in Ireland. That legislation was sorely needed for the reproductive health needs of all...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, data are kept and there are specific provisions in the 2019 legislation to ensure data are kept on terminations of pregnancy.