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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator. We have no issue with sitting late to deal with matters of an emergency nature or in respect of something that is urgent. This is not either and I am one of the very few Members who, like Senators Norris and McDowell, has sat through many hours of Judicial Appointments Commission Bill debate and I still have quite a number of points to make on that legislation. Indeed,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: All of us have to; it is not only me.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Deirdre Hargey, Lord Mayor of Belfast (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Ardmhéara. It is a great pleasure to welcome the Lord Mayor of Belfast to the House today. I apologise for not being here earlier due to various other issues around the ordering of the Seanad business. It is great to see the Seanad welcoming in a Lord Mayor from a different city. I hope we will continue to do so. I note this is the start of a...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I believe we are still on amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and 5. Is that right?

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: There was a grouping. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and 5 were being debated together.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, we have discussed them.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I just wish to reiterate what Senator Norris has said and thank the Minister of State for setting up an engagement with his officials. It was useful for us all to meet. Senator Norris met with the officials separately but Senator Warfield and myself have certainly met with them since the previous day on which Committee Stage was taken in this House. It was certainly very helpful to discuss...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris has eloquently put the case for amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive. I will follow up briefly because we had also proposed these amendments. I thank Professor Eoin O'Dell in Trinity College for his input.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: For writing them and for his immense help in explaining them to us. I thank the officials for meeting us to go through the substance of these amendments. Both Senator Warfield and I were very impressed by their expertise and depth of knowledge in what is, as Senator Norris and others have said, such a technical area. Amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, essentially deal with the substantial...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to respond on behalf of my colleagues. We would be delighted to have a further meeting because the earlier meetings we had were very constructive. We are seeking to be constructive as the Minister of State knows. We seek to improve the legislation and the scheme therein. We are agreed that we will withdraw the amendments at this point and reserve the right to reintroduce them on...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I echo the words of Senator Boyhan about the Government's decision yesterday on the Tuam mother and baby home. I commend the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, for taking the lead. I also commend Catherine Corless, without whose painstaking historical work, the matter would never have been uncovered. Senator Boyhan is right in saying the families of the babies buried...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of Labour Party Senators, I pay tribute to the late Dr. Maurice Hayes and join others in welcoming his wife, Joan; children, grandchildren and extended family. It is a pleasure to have them with us. I express my sympathy and that of my colleagues to them on their loss. I also express gratitude for the great, full and productive life that he led and the extraordinary contribution...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It is related.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I will not speak for long and I have been listening to the debate with great interest. I echo Senator Norris's words and it is of concern if Senator McDowell is expressing his doubts about the constitutionality of these provisions. The more one reads into the sections we are discussing and the related sections, we can see there are criminal offences created around failures to observe the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It is helpful to have it outlined.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disability Support Services Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: This matter is in my name and that of my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin. We are delighted to see the Minister here and he is very welcome. I also extend the congratulations of the Labour Party group to the Minister on his new post. I thank him for taking this matter. The question we have raised, on foot of representations to both Senator Ó Ríordáin and me, is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disability Support Services Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his response. Similar answers have been given to individual parents who contacted the office of his predecessor. It still appears that there is no rational basis for the continued exclusion of children with Down's syndrome from the scheme. It appears that the policy is indirectly discriminatory as between different conditions or disabilities, particularly in the...

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: That is rather a challenge. I welcome the Minister and the opportunity to debate the important report. I say to the Leader that I hope we will have more time to debate it further as we are short of time. As the Minister has done, I commend Mr. Justice Charleton on his forensic analysis and very clear recommendations and findings in this important report. In the short time available to me,...

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am coming to a conclusion, and I am conscious that Senator Devine kindly shortened her contribution. I will be very brief in conclusion.