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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for scheduling the resumed Committee Stage of the Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill for this afternoon. I advise colleagues that this Bill started life as a Private Members' Bill introduced by Senator Moran and myself on behalf of the Labour Party in March 2013. On Second Stage, 11 Members spoke and, as such, there is significant interest in the legislation,...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I will be brief. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to the House on this his first appearance before us on this Bill. I welcome members of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, GLEN, and other stakeholders in the Gallery. I very much welcome the resumption of Committee Stage. There has been a long gap, as colleagues will be aware, of more than a year since...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious that we have had two goes already on Committee Stage and we are debating this somewhat in a vacuum. I thank the Minister of State for outlining so clearly what will be in the Government's Report Stage amendments. I particularly welcome the much higher bar that will be set in terms of discrimination on the grounds of section 37(1)(b), which is the real concern for all of us....

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: In light of what Senator Zappone has pointed out in her question about amendment No. 4, I would point out that there is a facility for us on Report Stage, under Standing Order 126, to recommit specific Report Stage amendments if the House believes there has not been sufficient time to deal with them because they were not before us on Committee Stage. That might be the appropriate point for...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It is a greatly improved Bill.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I understand the Government amendments are already with the Bills Office so they can be published without delay and well before the deadline to enable colleagues to put in amendments to the amendments.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I support the Minister of State's claim that it is about the context. A number of us, including myself, made the same point on earlier Stages of the Bill. While many of us, myself included, would like to see a complete change of the education system so that we remove the religious basis, that is the reality of the context in which we are working. That does make section 37(1) particularly...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: As the leader of my group, I wish to express my sympathy to those families who were bereaved so tragically yesterday as a result of the drownings in Baltimore. Most tragically, every summer, and particularly in the summer, drowning tragedies occur, and it is appalling. It reminds us all of the need for extreme care and caution around water, beaches, lakes and rivers. I raised the issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, that is a different Bill. That is a Private Members' Bill that I introduced, if it is the Bill to which the Senator is referring. It is not the Government Bill to give effect to the outcome of the referendum.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I am pleased to support the Bill proposed by my colleague, Senator Lorraine Higgins. I commend the Senator on the work she has done on the legislation, the eloquent speech she made in proposing it and her bravery in raising this issue and speaking publicly about her personal experience. This, too, needs to be acknowledged because it can be difficult for...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I express my deep sympathy to the families of the Irish citizens and all those who were murdered or injured in the appalling attack in Tunisia on Friday. It was a most disturbing and brutal day. Not only were 38 people killed in Tunisia in that barbaric attack on the beach but also on the same day, a large number of people were killed in Kuwait, also apparently by ISIS extremists, and there...

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Charities Act 2009 and Advancement of Human Rights: Discussion (24 Jun 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the representatives, both of whom have made a very persuasive case. It seems that a relatively straightforward amendment could be made. I wish to make two points. First, the current position does not exclude all those bodies who promote human rights. Mr. Ivan Cooper referred to the proviso regarding the promotion of the clause relating directly to the advancement of charitable...

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Charities Act 2009 and Advancement of Human Rights: Discussion (24 Jun 2015)

Ivana Bacik: There was also the point about the soft law, the guidance.

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Charities Act 2009 and Advancement of Human Rights: Discussion (24 Jun 2015)

Ivana Bacik: No.