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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is not private; it is public.

Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: We have all spoken.

Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to the House. It is always welcome to have debates on justice matters, particularly on policing, particularly the day after the budget when there has been a welcome announcement of increased funding for the Department of Justice and Equality Vote of €140 million since budget day last year, including a 68% increase in capital funding....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is cancelled out by the USC.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Fianna Fáil got the shock.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Can we quote you on that?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Some of us voted against the bank guarantee.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Daly is suffering from double delusions. When I hear him speaking about the budget, it seems he was not listening to what was said in the budget speeches in the Dáil or in the very substantive debate we had in this House last night. Had he been listening, as I was, or contributing, he might have noted that the commentators, like him, who said it was both auction politics and a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It represented, as both the Ministers, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, stressed, a modest step forward to a sustainable recovery.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is a modest budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Nobody is being triumphalist over it. However, it represents real progress, particularly for low-income to middle-income earners. If one examines, as objective commentators have done, the impact of the changes to the USC and tax bands, one will see the people who will benefit are the low-income to middle-income earners, whom the budget was specifically designed to help. We had a good debate...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I hope we can all join together without rancour or controversy on that. John O’Shea scored a breathtaking goal in the last minute and it was a super result for Ireland in Germany.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It added to the positive feelings most people felt last night. I welcome other positive news that was, perhaps, lost in yesterday’s budget, namely that, for the first time, Ireland has been invited to participate in the British Armistice day event and that our ambassador in Britain, Dan Mulhall, will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday, 9 November. This is a very welcome...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for extending time, so that anyone who wishes to speak will be able to do so. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Harris and welcome him to the House. I have listened carefully to the speeches here and in the other House. Any fair-minded observer - there are many fair-minded observers on the Opposition benches - would acknowledge that there are very positive...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I join others in welcoming the new Senator, Gerard Craughwell, to the House. He will bring a particular expertise in education and I look forward to his participation in debates on education legislation and statements on education. As others will agree and many Ministers have remarked, a strength of this House lies in debating legislation, particularly on Committee Stage, where the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Paul Coghlan also supported him in his comments. It is unacceptable that we would be waiting ten minutes, or 11 minutes this morning, to start the business of the House because not enough Senators are present at the start of the business. When the bell rings, Senators should be coming to the Chamber for the Order of Business - there is no doubt about that. Senator Cummins did bring...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I will certainly seek that but, as we are unlikely to get it before 4 November, the Senator could also raise it on that date with the Minister, Deputy Varadkar. Senator Whelan raised the issue of wind energy, which he has raised in this House before. He noted the game-changer of yesterday's decision on the nuclear plant proposed for Somerset in England. I would agree with him that has huge...