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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Syrian Conflict: Irish Syria Solidarity Movement (10 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Dr. Sparrow for her moving presentation. As the Chair said, we have heard other eyewitness accounts of the war in Syria but she has described graphically and clearly the horrific impact of the war on children, in particular, and the outrageous brutality of the regime. Many of us have sought to put that to the Russian government representatives here, as well as to people who have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Syrian Conflict: Irish Syria Solidarity Movement (10 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank those in the Irish Syria solidarity movement, a number of whom are in the Gallery, for their work in continuing to highlight this issue. It is a war that has gone on so long that media attention in the West has slipped.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (10 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Barghouti for, as the Chairman said, such a concise and clear presentation. I think he has set out very succinctly why Ireland should support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, BDS, programme. I am personally a supporter of it. I am proud to support it on behalf of Labour, my party. Students' unions across Ireland have backed it, as have other unions. We need to act on it....

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and I commend Senator Warfield on initiating this important Bill. On behalf of Labour Party Senators, I am delighted to co-sponsor it with him. I welcome those in the Gallery who will hopefully observe the passage of the Bill through Second Stage. The Minister of State commented on the internal system and I am glad the Government will not oppose the...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister. I acknowledge the presence earlier of his predecessor, Deputy Fitzgerald, and the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Stanton, who have both done so much work on this Bill. I agree with Senator Conway-Walsh that it is important that we move swiftly through the remaining Stages, although there are some important issues in these...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I will just make a few brief comments to note the passage of the legislation. It is ground-breaking. I commend the Minister and his officials who worked so hard on it over a lengthy period. I commend the Minister's predecessor, former Minister Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, on her pioneering work in steering this legislation into the Oireachtas initially. As others have said, there has been a...

Seanad: Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I commend Senator Ó Ríordáin, who sponsored the Bill, for bringing it forward. I welcome the Minister to the House and I welcome her comments on the Bill. We are all cognisant of her comments on the need to be mindful of unforeseen consequences. Clearly it is not our intention to dissuade parents from sending their children to school before the age of six. Both Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We would have all waited to hear that.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Chair might have allowed her to continue. I welcome our two new colleagues and I look forward to working with them. On behalf of the Labour group, I extend our congratulations to them and their families who are with us today. It is a proud day for them. Like previous speakers, I call for a debate on CervicalCheck and request that the Minister come to the House. The Leader is making...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: -----and her family for the huge courage they showed in pursuing the case against robust opposition and defence by the State to the point where she was forced to give evidence in the witness box. The judge commented when the case was settled that she was one of the most impressive witnesses he had ever heard. I commend her tenaciousness in pursuing this issue. It is appalling that many...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: And Holles Street.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to start by expressing my support for Senator Norris's contribution earlier when he spoke about the motion he is seeking to bring before the Seanad. I was disappointed, as was Senator Norris, that it was ruled out of order. I would like to see us continue to press the point. As Senator Norris said, it is an important facet of Seanad reform that we would not restrict ourselves...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Cathaoirleach, the Leader of the House and my colleagues on the Vótáil 100 committee Senators McFadden, Conway-Walsh, Higgins and Grace O'Sullivan, who stood in for Deputy Catherine Martin, for all the work that went into making this morning's event such a success. I also thank the other colleagues who dropped in to observe Díospóireacht na nÓg, whereby...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I had intended to thank the Leader for proposing to take the motion on Syria without debate. I had not realised it would give rise to conflict but I will be pleased to withdraw it to try to reach an agreed version of the text. I corresponded with all the group leaders on the motion and I was aware that Sinn Féin was not willing to sign up to it. However, we secured support from the...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps we could debate when the House returns after the break. As I said, I understood there was strong support for the people of Syria in this House. I am, therefore, disappointed by this. On the verdict announced yesterday in the trial in Belfast, I ask the Leader to arrange a debate when we return on the trial of sex offences in this jurisdiction. We have had some significant changes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Parliament of Georgia Foreign Relations Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them for coming to the committee and for their comprehensive presentation about Georgia, the difficulties it faces and the challenges and aspirations for EU membership in particular. I echo the Chairman's comments, and those of others, in offering my support and that of the Labour Party for the measures being sought such as the lifting of visa...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister. I commend and thank him for his very powerful words last night both in opening and closing the debate on Second Stage and expressing such powerful reasons we should support the Bill. I am glad that it was passed on Second Stage in the Seanad last night by 35 votes to 10. I very much hope we will see it being swiftly passed by a resounding majority today once we get...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, all of us maintained a respectful and dignified manner of speaking in last night's debate. I was hoping that would remain the case in today's debate. I have been careful not to criticise colleagues or be personal. It would be nice to keep that tradition in the House.

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (27 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House. I am very grateful to him for coming in to respond to the matter I have put down, namely, what mechanisms for gathering data exist regarding the operation of the new prostitution-related offences of purchase of sexual services under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and how it is proposed to record instances of the new...