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Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important and long overdue Bill, for which I offer my support and that of my Labour Party colleagues. I also acknowledge the people in the Gallery to hear the debate. As the Minister said, the Bill serves a number of purposes. It will provide a long-overdue modernisation of our current coroners system and will update and modernise the legal...

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: They have been circulated.

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to share time with Senator Ó Ríordáin. I welcome the Minister. I also very much welcome the deferral of Committee Stage and its replacement with statements. I thank the Minister for her very full opening statement to us in which she set out her views. I wholeheartedly agree with the content of her letter to the Attorney General as she explained it to us,...

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I am also grateful to the Tusla officials whom Deputy Burton and I met yesterday. They helpfully explained to us how the information and tracing process is being carried out at present. They told us that the lack of a statutory basis for this work is frustrating for everyone who is trying to provide information. I think we all understand that. We understand the need for legislation of...

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: How does one follow that? I join other Senators in expressing my sincere sympathy to the Cathaoirleach on the loss of his sister and to Senator Coughlan on the loss of his mother.I wish to extend sympathies on my behalf and on behalf of my colleagues, some of whom have already spoken. I commend Senators Nash and Gavan on their work in support of the SIPTU healthcare workers. I know others...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and welcome the opportunity to speak on the proposed renewal by the Government of the relevant provisions of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009. Like other colleagues, I have spoken many times in this House on the debate as to renewal. Last night in the Dáil, my colleague, Deputy Sherlock, spoke on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I offered my congratulations to Senator Grace O'Sullivan yesterday. Judging by her Twitter account, she appears to be very active in Brussels already. I am really delighted for the Senator. Her victory in the European elections was well deserved. I support the proposal to amend the Order of Business - made by Senator Ó Ríordáin and seconded by Senator Ruane - to adjourn the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: -----without adequate time for debate or consideration. This is unacceptable, particularly in light of how long we have waited and given the extent of the issues that have been raised with us by persons who have been adopted and the Council of Irish Adoption Agencies. I received an email from the latter this morning stating that, having listened to the Minister's arguments on "Morning...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I second the amendment and welcome the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty. I also welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I commend Senator Gavan, in particular, and his colleagues, as well as my colleague Senator Gerald Nash and the other Labour Party Senators who have been so instrumental in supporting the Bill. I welcome all of those in the Visitors Gallery who have worked so hard...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

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

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, and welcome the opportunity to again debate the Bill, which has been a long time coming. As some of us pointed out on the Order of Business this morning, Second Stage of the Bill was taken on 22 March 2017, which is over two years ago. We had awaited the amendments and I know we will now have a full debate on those...

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

Ivana Bacik: My apologies but I should have repeated something that I said on the Order of Business earlier today, namely, that given the lateness of the publication of the Minister's amendments on Monday night, Labour Party Senators had not tabled any amendments. We wanted to wait and see what the Government amendments would contain and did not want to submit duplicate amendments. That said, I reserve...

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

Ivana Bacik: I am quite well aware of that and thank the Acting Chairman for the reminder.

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

Ivana Bacik: The Acting Chairman is quite right. I thank him for that and reserve the right to submit additional lists of amendments on Committee Stage. It is in everyone's interest that this Committee Stage debate will adjourn at 6 p.m. because that will give us more time to consider the Government's amendments and consider our own position in terms of whether we wish to submit additional amendments.

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for her very comprehensive reply and her openness to the debate. I wish to acknowledge the spirit in which the Minister always comes to the Seanad and it is great to have her back here to debate this. The strength of Seanad Committee Stage debates is that they take place in the House. That is very important. I accept, as we all do, that there is an urgency to this...

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

Ivana Bacik: I was going to ask that. That was my next question.