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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...

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for organising statements today on the result of the UK referendum on EU membership. The result not only is deeply disappointing but represents a seismic shock in terms of its political and economic fallout, which is being felt on this island, in the UK and across the European Union. I look forward to participating this afternoon. I thank the Leader for ensuring the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: She is a tireless activist in this area and a very eminent academic who had the courage to take the case which prompted this report and which has highlighted public awareness of gender discrimination in universities.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, in the tradition of her grandfather. I ask the Leader for a debate on criminal justice policy and penal reform. I had the pleasure of attending a conference at NUI Maynooth last week on criminology and, today, a round-table discussion hosted by the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development on criminal justice, in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Equality...

Seanad: United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I am sharing time with Senator Humphreys. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan. It is clear from the debate today that many of us feel a profound sense of bleakness and sadness at the result in the referendum last week. It appears that Britain has turned its back on Europe and already we have seen immense fragmentation as a result of the vote. It also appears to mark a victory...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I join other Senators in congratulating the Irish football team on a wonderful and deserved win against Italy last night. It was a superb match and the team played great. Like many others, I and my small daughters who play soccer were glued to the television. We all wish the team the best of luck on Sunday when we play France. I agree with Senator Norris that the sight of the President...

Seanad: EU-UK Relations: Statements (22 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, back to the House and I congratulate him on his reappointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. I look forward to working with him, as I am now Labour Party spokesperson on foreign affairs. I commend the Government on the work that has been going on as detailed in the Minister's speech. This has included interventions such as the Taoiseach's...

Seanad: Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to share time with my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin, with the slot divided in three minutes and two minutes. I stand to pay tribute to Jo Cox, MP, and join the tributes being paid by others as leader of the Labour Party group in the House, as a woman Labour Party public representative and as a mother of two young children, as Jo Cox was. The shocking and horrific...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I join other colleagues in expressing the sympathies of the Labour Party group in the Seanad to all the victims and families of victims caught up in the horrific attack in Orlando, which was a homophobic hate crime, a crime of terror and a crime that has highlighted not only homophobia and terrorism but issues around gun control, particularly how somebody who had been under investigation by...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Senator Denis Landy be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach." I speak as a former Deputy Leader of this House and quite a number of women have held the positions of Leader and Deputy Leader over recent years. In fact, the Seanad has a much better record than the Dáil - it just needs to be stated - in terms of women's representation. That is an important point. We have hit the...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party group, I add my voice to those who are congratulating Senator Coghlan on his election as Leas-Chathaoirleach. He will do a superb job. It has been a pleasure to work with him over the past five years and I look forward to working with him in the future. I have had the pleasure that not many colleagues may have had of seeing him in his natural habitat of...