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Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for engaging with us over more than seven hours of constructive debate. We all acknowledge the Minister's comments on the index and his movement and engagement on some of the amendments we tabled. It is disappointing that the bigger issue of access to information has not been addressed in the Bill. We will work with the Minister to try to ensure we get decent...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I want to second Senator McDowell's proposal. I know Senator Boyhan's name is also on it as a seconder. If needs be, I am happy to second it on the basis that, as Senator McDowell has said, we are very concerned about the way in which the Bill is being rushed through and the projected ordering of Committee and Report Stages for Friday. I know that has not yet been ordered by the House....

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and acknowledge his comments on our shameful history, as a society, of treatment of women and children over many decades, in particular of those citizens who were incarcerated in homes like the mother and baby homes and so many other institutions. In my previous life as a practitioner, I had the privilege of representing many survivors of abuse before the...

Seanad: Ireland-China Relations: Motion (8 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, to the House and thank him for taking this motion. I commend Senators Mullen and McDowell on initiating the motion. I am glad to support it on behalf of the Labour Party Senators and, indeed, we co-signed the motion along with other colleagues across the House. It is important that we do so to show solidarity with the Uyghur people and make...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader for a debate on the disability motion that is listed as the sixth motion on the Order Paper for today, which has been proposed by us in the Labour Party with support from Sinn Féin and the Civic Engagement Group. I thank all colleagues for signing up to it. This is a cross-party initiative, which was also introduced in the Dáil last night, seeking to ensure a...

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and I ask the permission of the House to share time with my colleague, Senator Wall. I will take five minutes and he will take three minutes.

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: It gives me great pleasure to second this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. It also gives me great pleasure to speak following my colleague, Senator Sherlock, who has spoken so eloquently to propose the motion. She has done an enormous amount of work on pushing for the introduction of the right to paid sick leave. As we state in our motion, it is extraordinary that Ireland is one of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nursing Home Accommodation (1 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is a beautiful Chamber, as the Minister of State has said, and it is lovely to be here. The matter I have raised is the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the situation regarding St. Mary's Centre Telford, Dublin 4, and the care of persons currently depending on the centre's services, along with his Department's plans to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nursing Home Accommodation (1 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for her very strong reply. I have raised this matter in the Seanad a number of times but I am grateful to the Minister of State for responding so directly on it. Clearly, there is an issue with regard to the provision of care to vulnerable persons beyond the specific issues affecting St. Mary's. In the context of St. Mary's, I am grateful to the Minister of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed my colleague, Senator Ó Donnghaile. I agree with the sentiments he expressed about the unfortunate news of the Bus Éireann decision. I also wish to express my serious disappointment at the demolition in the very early hours of yesterday morning of 40 Herbert Park, the home of The O'Rahilly, for the reasons...

Seanad: National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and I commend Senator Norris on proposing this important Bill, which I am delighted to speak in support of on behalf of the Labour Party. I commend and pay tribute to Senator Norris for his immense commitment to persisting on this issue. In the previous Oireachtas term, I spoke in support of the motion the Senator tabled on this same issue on 10 July 2019...

Seanad: National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: -----given that we passed the motion unanimously last year. There was such strong goodwill towards the motion and the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, spoke strongly in support of it, as Senator Norris will recall. I agree with the Senator that six months would be better and I share his impatience.

Seanad: National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: It is important that we move forward in a united fashion to ensure the important provisions in the Bill are implemented. In that regard and as others have done, I pay special tribute to Les Martin, his partner, Lynda, and their children, Holly, Cathal and Ciaran, who have been tireless in campaigning for the expansion of the newborn screening programme. Others have referred to their...

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. It is a pleasure to have a Minister of State appointed from the Seanad. I have listened with great interest to the debate. I do not wish to prolong matters this late in the evening, and my colleague, Senator Hoey, has admirably put forward the Labour position on the Bill. Looking at this very substantive group of amendments, and in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, to the House and congratulate her on her appointment. I wish her the very best in this important post. I am glad to be speaking in my capacity as Labour Party spokesperson on children, disability, equality and integration and, in that regard, to ask the Minister for Health or the Minister of State to make a statement to the House on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I greatly appreciate her efforts on behalf of the child in the case I have raised with her and I look forward to engaging with her further on that individual case. I stress that the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, has clearly told me it is not within her brief, and that it is a matter for the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, or the...

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

Ivana Bacik: Today is the first United Nations international equal pay day and I ask the Leader for a debate on legislation to close the gender pay gap. This House passed legislation that I and the Labour Party group initiated previously but unfortunately it seems to have run into the ground. I would like a debate on it. I echo the words of Senator Sherlock in welcoming the decision by the Minister and...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (18 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her new role. This is the first time Member of this House have had the pleasure of addressing her since her appointment. I have no issue with these technical amendments. Indeed, the Bill is largely technical in nature. I appreciate that the Minister of State has accepted an amendment I tabled on Committee Stage in late 2019, which...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (18 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: My colleague's amendment No. 7 will create a new section 29.

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (18 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for her generous and kind words. It is always lovely to see someone with a Waterford connection in this Chamber, as I have one myself. I am grateful to her for passing that message on to the Minister. Committee Stage of this Bill was held on 18 December 2019, which is when we debated and agreed the amendment. I will not take up the time of the House any...