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Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: The motion specifically deals with the appalling abduction of the girls that was highlighted. Colleagues can raise other issues in the context of the debate on the motion to be taken on Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: That completes my response to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Can I respond?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: For the day that is in it, that is an appropriate comment by the Senator. I meant to respond to him on postcodes. We might get the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to attend here for a specific debate on the matter. I am sure he would be delighted to have an opportunity to debate the new plan for postcodes and it would be a good debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: In response to the point made by Senator Mooney about the motions, I want a full debate on the reports and all of us who were involved with them want the same. I do not think it would have been appropriate to arrange for a Minister with no knowledge of their contents to come into the House. We did try to get a Minister who would have been able to do it. At 7 p.m. yesterday, however, it...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: One issue has dominated the Order of Business today, which was the resignation yesterday of the former Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter. We also had the announcement as we were sitting this morning of the appointment of Deputy Frances Fitzgerald as Minister for Justice and Equality, the appointment of Deputy Charlie Flanagan as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the moving of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It was sent after 7 p.m. yesterday evening after every effort had been made to try to get alternative business. Clearly we could not take the DNA legislation. In light of the comments by colleagues and my own views I will withdraw the three motions before the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I should have stated it was always envisaged that we would have a full debate on the three reports. I authored the report on penal reforms and I was very involved in the other two on prostitution and Traveller ethnicity. We always wanted to have a debate on these. If one looked at the text of the motions one would have seen the reports were to be noted and it was not a statement they would...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It was important that we sat today. I stand over my decision yesterday to call for an Order of Business at 10.30 this morning but I accept the motions should be withdrawn. I hope the Order of Business will not be opposed.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I think I have explained the Leader's office made every attempt until after 7 p.m. yesterday to find another Minister to come in and take other business. My preference was to have had a debate on at least one of the reports today but we simply could not do it. When the resignation was announced at 4 p.m. yesterday it took most people by surprise and it was very difficult to get any...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Charlie Flanagan.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: They will be debated.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 41, motion re the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on the review of legislation on prostitution, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 42, motion re report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on penal reform, to be taken at the conclusion of No. 41 without debate; and No. 44,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: There will be a debate on them at a later date.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, for coming to the House and giving us such a comprehensive outline of what she is doing and what has been going on. I thank my colleagues, almost all of whom supported the motion. I believe everyone supported the principle and spirit of it. I also welcome the representatives of the Disability Federation of Ireland. I also mention Mr....

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow morning at 10.30.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I move: “That Seanad Éireann – - notes that Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UN CRPD) provides that States should recognise ‘the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others’ and commits States to ‘take effective and appropriate measures to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, less than the charge in Northern Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I am afraid I cannot match that melodramatic performance.