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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am a legal academic who has practised in the past 15 years. However, it is not for my own personal reasons I am making this point. The 15-year clause is unfeasibly long. I do not see why it needs to be that long in order to qualify as a lay person, particularly given Senator McDowell's point about legal academics who have not practised but who would be capable of being considered to be...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It is extraordinary that the Minister has said he has not yet seen the report, yet he appears to know what is in it. He is going to be seeking Government clearance to publish it at the earliest opportunity. We are in the middle of Committee Stage in the Seanad, dealing with amendments that are directly pertinent to the critiques in the report, apparently. Some of us have seen what are...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have a copy of what purports to be three pages of the GRECO report in my hand, and it seems to be very up to date. Paragraph 35 of it states that GRECO has significant concerns about the composition of an appointments commission as proposed in the judicial appointments Bill, as amended, on 31 May 2018, which would place judges in a clear minority position in favour of a strong lay...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator Warfield in wishing everyone a happy Pride in the week that is in it and commend him on his work on conversion therapy. I second the motion put forward by my colleague, Senator Humphreys, seeking to adjourn Committee Stage of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill and providing that the Seanad will not take Committee Stage until we have received and considered the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Committee Stage of the Bill was originally proposed for today, as indicated in the schedule, as originally published.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Minister Flanagan.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I think it is just us.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know what the Cathaoirleach means.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Government's announcement today that it will bring forward measures to address the gender pay gap. I very much welcome anything that will bring that forward. However, it is a pity, and I said this to the Minister for Justice and Equality, that the Government did not see fit to use the existing legislation, the Private Members' Bill, that we introduced in this House, which...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It would be helpful if we had sight of the Government amendments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Christian Aid Tax Report: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for the detailed analysis they have done and the important work on raising these issues. It is especially instructive to hear the interaction between non-governmental organisations, NGOs, that are represented by the witnesses and Action Aid and the Department and Revenue in terms of unearthing particular practices. As Mr. McCaughey said, it is alarming that NGOs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Christian Aid Tax Report: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Very creative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Christian Aid Tax Report: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate this important Bill and the principles it contains. I am an advocate of reform in the judicial appointments process. I wish to be constructive in the debate on this Bill and acknowledge its important positive aspects. As my colleagues in the other House, Deputies Howlin, Penrose and Sherlock have said, it is unfortunate that the Bill has come in this...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It is still not good legislation. We can all acknowledge that. The response of the Minister, Deputy Ross, to the Attorney General's criticism of it as a "a dog's dinner", which I read in a newspaper, referring to this as "a caviar and oysters" Bill was unfortunate. That language is not helpful.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am simply saying that I do not think many of Deputy Ross's colleagues in government would agree with his description of the Bill. What we need in fact is a beans on toast version of reform, one that is practical, that does what it says on the tin, that moves away from canine analogies and references to the feast of caviar and oysters that----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes a black pudding Bill, I thank Senator Norris.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We need sensible, practical and robust reforms. I should declare an interest as a qualified barrister who was in practice for many years, no longer in practice, but as a legal academic also. There are very positive reforms in this that I, among others, have sought for many years. In 2003 I and colleagues in Trinity published a report entitled Gender Injustice which focused on the need to...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator Norris. I meant the judgment by then Chief Justice O'Higgins. In his book, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic described it as the worst judgment in the history of the Supreme Court. I do not think many would disagree with that, looking back at the tenor of that judgment. For the most part, our Judiciary has served us extremely well. While we are advocating for reform and while we...