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Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: We are happy to let him in.

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I propose to share time with Senator Susan O'Keeffe. I welcome the Minister of State and pay tribute to her personal commitment on these issues - mental health and suicide prevention. I welcome the positive points made in her contribution, particularly on the project to replace the Central Mental Hospital. We know about its highly vulnerable population of prisoners and the high number of...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thought it was particularly appropriate today on remembrance day that we mark the opening of the Seanad business, as we do every day at the commencement of business, with a minute of silence. I am aware that there has been some debate about this in the other House, as there is only a prayer there and no formal acknowledgement of the presence in the Chamber of persons of faiths other than...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: He is ready to serve.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I also extend a welcome to delegates form the web summit here today. For next year's web summit, we might extend an invitation to delegates more generally to come into the Seanad, given that during the week we very much welcomed the fact the summit is taking place and is being attended by more than 20,000 delegates. We have commended the organisers. It is very good to see even a small...

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his very comprehensive reply. I thank all of my colleagues who spoke, namely, Senators Hayden, O'Donovan, Conway, van Turnhout, O'Keeffe, Ó Clochartaigh, Mullins and Mooney. They made some very important points during the course of the debate, and in particular I thank Senator Hayden for seconding the motion and referring to issues on overcrowding and...

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Seanad Éireann - - notes the publication in March 2013 of the Report on Penal Reform by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality; - notes further the publication by the Minister for Justice and Equality in September 2014 of the Strategic Review of Penal Policy; and - calls on the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her proposals for reform of...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I also thank the Leader for arranging the debate tomorrow on Irish Water with the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly. Everyone will welcome the Government decision to provide more clarity next week about the pricing structure for Irish Water.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is long overdue to give people greater clarity-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ----on affordability. The issue of adult dependent children is particularly pressing, but in regard to the ongoing debate in the media on Irish Water, it is important for us as Senators to state we did not guillotine the Bill in this House. We had an extensive debate on the Water Services Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is fair for Government and Opposition Deputies to criticise the way the Bill was rushed through the Dáil. I think it was wrong to rush it through the Dáil in that way.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Ivana Bacik: We did not do that in the Seanad, and that is an important point to make. I hope others will also make that point in tomorrow's debate and elsewhere. I welcome that we are seeing such a successful Web Summit under way in the RDS in Dublin. There are 22,000 delegates attending. I congratulate all involved. It is an immense achievement to have brought together so many people. It is the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, it is simply a dossier about the trial of Liam Adams, which has concluded and is in the public domain.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with Senator O'Brien's comments on Maíria Cahill and the way in which Sinn Féin has been dealing with the statements made by her. I have been given a dossier on the Áine Tyrell case, information about which is in the public domain following the trial and conviction of Liam Adams last year. That case raises disturbing questions about more than one situation in which...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, to the House. I commend my colleague, Senator David Norris, for introducing the Bill, and a debate on this or related issues, which we have debated a number of times, around direct provision and those seeking asylum and other forms of permission to reside in Ireland. I commend him for making a thoughtful contribution to what is...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: -----on the Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014. Today at the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Defence, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, reminded us that she had accepted an amendment proposed by Senator Katherine Zappone, Senator Jillian van Turnhout and others and I had supported them on extending the powers of the Human Rights and Equality Commission. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Appointment of Members of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (22 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for that and for her support in respect of a change to the name of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Appointment of Members of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (22 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and the motion. It is the culmination of a long process, but it is good to see the commitment shown to strengthening the mechanisms for protecting human rights and incorporating the Equality Authority. I had been critical of the moves made by the previous Government to weaken and undermine the authority. I described it as a quiet coup at one stage such was the level...