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Seanad: Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 57: In page 58, subsection (4), lines 15 and 16, to delete all words from and including "which" in line 15 down to and including "persons" in line 16. These amendments are suggested to ensure a more meaningful level of penalty is provided for against a person who contravenes the regulations under section 60. Other offences created in this Bill carry the possibility of...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today".

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Áine Brady, and I thank her for her interest in this issue. I am delighted to introduce this important Bill on behalf of the Labour Party. My colleague, Senator Prendergast, will refer to the health implications and definition of female genital mutilation or FGM. FGM is a practice carried out in certain...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I believe it should say published by the summer recess.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all speakers who contributed to what has been a strong and impassioned debate. I thank my Labour colleagues, Senator Prendergast who seconded the motion and spoke from her extensive experience as a mid-wife and Senator Hannigan who spoke of the experience in developing countries in the fight against FGM and the importance of that fight within aid programmes. This legislation has been...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Why not support the amendment?

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: The women of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I support the calls for a debate on banking policy today. I also call on the Members on the Government side who called for an urgent debate on the issue to support the amendment to the Order of Business such that we can have the debate today, a day on which everyone is shocked by the revelation of the excessive and reckless losses incurred by the Irish Nationwide Building Society, bearing in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I ask for a debate on the legislation proposed by Senator Boyle to remedy certain excessive payments made to individuals in banking. Some of the suggestions he made were very sensible. We look forward to seeking legislation from the other side of the House and debating it. I also ask the Leader for a debate on another matter, in respect of which we can learn from Iceland which looks to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I am talking about Deputy Joan Burton.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: In that context, I ask once again for a debate on women's participation in politics. We have been promised such a debate many times in the past few months. Members on both sides of the House are seeking a debate on the issue and I ask the Leader to commit to a date as a matter of urgency.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: It is not political opportunism.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and commend him for his strong and stated commitment to mental health reform. I am delighted he has accepted the principle behind the much more inelegantly drafted amendment in my name. I will not be pressing amendment No. 2 because amendment No. 1 deals with most of the issues I raised previously. On Second Stage I expressed concern that fitness to be tried...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I am very much obliged to the Minister of State for his very full response. I look forward to hearing more on it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "(c) The references in this subsection to a court shall not include the District Court.". I have already spoken a little about this amendment and the intention behind it, which is to remove the jurisdiction to deal with section 4(6) applications from the District Court in its entirety to facilitate the court...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I again thank the Minister of State for indicating he will reconsider this issue before Report Stage and thank other Members for their contributions. In response to Senator Walsh, the issue of delay is a concern. One must also consider the societal considerations, the protection of the public and so on. However, the matters pertaining to the District Court are minor and the difficulty has...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful to the Minister of State and will not press the amendment at this point. However, I will revert to it on Report Stage. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Section 3 agreed to. Sections 4 to 6, inclusive, agreed to.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, line 48, to delete "A person is in material breach of his or her" and substitute "The clinical director may revoke a". This amendment relates to the provision in section 7 that inserts new sections 13A and 13B in the 2006 Act. As drafted, section 13B(2) states, "A person is in material breach of his or her conditional discharge order where the clinical...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: While I take the Minister of State's point that it might have an effect on some of the other provisions, it might be more accurate and honest for the clinical director to be obliged to take responsibility for revoking the conditional discharge order. Under the wording I have tabled, the position would be more honestly stated. On the section as drafted, it appears as though the private belief...