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Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State, the Tánaiste and the officials for engaging with us, particularly with those of us who expressed issues we had with the Bill on Second Stage and who tabled amendments. I appreciate that engagement and look forward to working with everyone on the wider review. I express again the condemnation I think we have all expressed in this House of the consequences...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: It is Labour Party Private Members' time later, for which I thank the Leader. We are taking Committee Stage of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016, which passed Second Stage last January. I thank colleagues on both sides of the House for expressing support to me for the principle underpinning the Bill and for supporting the passage of the Bill on Committee Stage. It seeks to amend...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: The Leas-Chathaoirleach is correct and I apologise. However, where somebody of the stature of the chairman designate is forced to step down because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have caved into the bully-boy tactics of Deputy Paul Murphy and the AAA-PBP-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: -----that smacks of crude populism.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I doubt whether anyone will be willing to take on this poisoned chalice.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to debate this Private Members' Bill, which the Labour Party group of Senators introduced on Second Stage on 20 January of this year. On that date, it was not opposed on Second Stage by the then Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton. We have now brought the Bill back on Committee Stage and it is...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will make a few points in response before we move to section 2. I welcome the broad support for the Bill expressed so far by colleagues and I thank them all for their kind comments. I should say in response to Senator Craughwell I do not want to take the credit for drafting the Bill. It was the product of a number of people, and I mentioned Deputy Stagg, who first published it in 2012....

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will speak briefly about section 2, given that we have addressed the main purpose and context of the Bill. I wish to consider briefly the provisions included in section 2 which constitute, as I said, the substance of the Bill which seeks to create an exemption from the provisions of the Competition Act 2002. If colleagues have the Bill before them, they will see that we start in...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Nash has rightly raised the important issue of the Government's appearance before the ILO in June. I share his concern and those of many in the trade union movement about the statements made in respect of this issue prior to the ILO hearing. In particular, it is important that Ireland cannot argue that following interpretation of EU rules, it is exempt from ILO conventions. It is...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for her response and accept she does not have the text of the amendments before her. I look forward to working constructively with her and her officials, who are working hard on this, to ensure we can achieve amendments agreeable to every Member but mindful that they would not unduly narrow the exemption of the Bill.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Section 3 is ancillary to section 2. It relates to section 4 of the Competition Act 2002 and seeks to provide for an application to a scheme for payments out of public funds by a public body to members of a profession. It concerns instances where the Government makes a declaration a public interest in negotiating a collective agreement on a national level with an organisation representative...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Our concern would be that the amendments would not undermine the Bill’s specific purpose, namely, to protect vulnerable self-employed persons. We will await the actual text of the amendments to see what position we will take on them.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Section 4 makes standard provision for the Short Title and collective citation of the Bill. It cites the Bill as amending the Competition Act 2002 and that it may be cited together with the Competition Act 2002 as one Act.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: In light of the comments made by colleagues on both sides of the House, while commencement orders are routine, our concern would be that it would not be used to delay the enactment and implementation of the Bill. We are all conscious of Acts, for example, the Charities Act, where there have been significant delays in the commencement of particular provisions. We do not want to see that...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: On the first sitting day after the recess.

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to debate this important issue. All of us and others outside the House have spoken of the wider context in which the Bill is being proposed. All of us have seen horrific murders in recent weeks and months. Many have mentioned the shooting today in Lusk and there was another shooting last week very close to where I...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (5 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to clarify which motion he is talking about.

Seanad: Ibrahim Halawa Case: Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and I thank him for taking this important debate. I join others who have expressed deep concern about the ongoing detention of Ibrahim Halawa. All of us are well aware of the background to the case. He was detained originally aged 17 in August 2013 and, therefore, still a child. Almost three years later at the age of 20, he remains incarcerated having...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Copyright Legislation Review (29 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I congratulate her on her appointment, about which I was delighted. I wish her the best with it and I look forward to working with her in this House in her new role. This question concerns a matter which I know has been the subject of ongoing communications with the Minister's predecessor and with herself. It is the need for her to inform the House when...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Copyright Legislation Review (29 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister's full response to my question and thank her for it. I am particularly grateful to her for stating her own anxiety that rights holders will be able to enforce their intellectual property rights. As I have indicated, the current legal position amounts to a serious obstacle to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, particularly for small companies and...