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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Post-Brexit Trade Opportunities: Asia Matters (14 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Murray for his clear presentation and his precise policy recommendations, which I hope the committee will support. I add my voice to those who made the points about visas, particularly in the higher education sector. This is an ongoing issue for universities and third level colleges as they try to attract students and staff from Asian countries. Mr. Martin's point about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Post-Brexit Trade Opportunities: Asia Matters (14 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Whom I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Post-Brexit Trade Opportunities: Asia Matters (14 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. We have to be careful about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Post-Brexit Trade Opportunities: Asia Matters (14 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Murray.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Chairman for letting me in early. I thank Mr. Drummond for his excellent presentation and commend him on all the great work. Like other members of the committee, I am very familiar with the work the ONE Foundation has been doing for such a long time. It is terrific. I also thank him for giving us such a succinct presentation on the need to ensure we move to 0.7%. As Mr....

Seanad: Special Needs Assistants: Motion (13 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I second the motion. I reiterate that we are not supporting the Government counter-motion, if that needs to be emphasised. I commend my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin, on moving this motion on behalf of Labour Senators. It arises from his own long experience as a teacher and principal and seeing first-hand the important role of SNAs....

Seanad: Special Needs Assistants: Motion (13 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, the amendment was not seconded.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I apologise for being late but I was watching the debate on the monitor in my office with great interest. I welcome the opportunity to debate PESCO, the permanent structure co-operation arrangement. I commend my colleague, Senator Higgins, on pressing for this debate which is coming rather late, given that the Dáil voted last week by 75...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to add my voice to others in expressing concern at the failure to achieve a successful outcome at the Brexit negotiations yesterday. Anyone watching the events yesterday would have been dismayed to see what appeared to be an agreement on wording collapse with the symbolic approach of the British Government and the walking away of the DUP, which betrayed the very tenuous basis of...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Very heartening.

Seanad: Vacancy in Seanad Membership: Motion (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I move:That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the resignation of Senator Denis Landy, a member elected from the Nominating Bodies Sub-Panel of the Agricultural Panel at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2016.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I join colleagues in paying tribute to our good friend and long-standing colleague, Senator Norris. I was going to say that it feels not so much like tributes as it does a sort of canonisation of Senator Norris. However, it is well deserved after 30 years and seven months, as the Cathaoirleach has said, of-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator, I will take that. Yes, if there is a sort of secular canonisation, then that is what is going on here today, but it is well deserved. The Senator has indeed been inspirational, as others have said. It has been a real pleasure for me personally to have served alongside him for the past ten years as Senators on the Dublin University panel, and I cannot believe it has...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I have no objection.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Hear hear.

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the House. I strongly welcome the passage of the Domestic Violence Bill with great haste through this House. Like Senator Kelleher I pay tribute to the immense work so many individuals and organisations have done to improve and strengthen this long awaited and very important Bill. I thank in particular groups such as SAFE Ireland, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the speakers. They are very welcome to the committee. It has been a very important session. While it has not been good to hear what the witnesses have said, because it is very bleak, it is important to hear it and to have it on the record. The committee is glad the witnesses are here with us today. I was glad to attend the Sadaka conference on Tuesday and to engage on the...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: We do not need a copy of it if it is read out in the House.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the representatives from Stop Climate Chaos and Trócaire in the Public Gallery and thank them for their briefing materials, which have been very helpful. I am very glad of the opportunity to have this debate. Of course, it is a requirement under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Former Senator Sean Barrett was...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party Senators I would like to pay tribute to our colleague Denis Landy, who has tendered his resignation today due to ill-health. We in the Labour group were all very sorry to hear of this resignation. I want to pay tribute to him, and to thank you, a Chathaoirligh, and all our colleagues from the other groups, who have spoken so warmly and kindly about Denis's time...