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Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Daly is making a lot of noise for someone who has been gagged.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I believe all Members share the concerns expressed by Senator Darragh O'Brien on the reports of potential job losses at Aviva. As Senator O'Brien is aware, the Labour Party group already has devoted specific Private Members' Business time to the plight of the workers at TalkTalk in Waterford, during which debate there was much talk of other projected job losses, including those at Aviva, and...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Phrase it as a question.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Not surreptitiously. Legislation is passed-----

Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and thank and commend Senator Katherine Zappone and the other Independent Senators for bringing forward the motion. This is a very important debate that has been ongoing for some time, as acknowledged by the Minister of State and others. I also thank and commend the many NGOs which have been working on this issue for many years,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator O'Brien, I would like a debate on the Keane report but I would differ greatly with him on his analysis of that report. I have asked the Minister of State, Deputy Penrose, to come to the House to debate the Keane report with us. We should have a lengthy debate on it. However, I welcome the proposals in it which at least offer some sort of concrete comfort to many families in...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----in dealing with-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: We are trying to clean up Fianna Fáil's mess.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I will be very specific.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I will be specific about the night of the bank guarantee in September 2008 when the Senator's party-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. I call for a debate on the Keane report.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the proposals in it which offer 100 new mortgage advisers to people in distress with their mortgages and who will negotiate directly with the banks on their behalf, as Deputy Ciarán Lynch, said the other night. I also welcome the proposal for two new mortgage to rent schemes which the Minister of State, Deputy Penrose, will roll out that will offer-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----practical help to the thousands-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: The schemes proposed will offer practical help to the many families who are in genuine distress with their mortgages. I call on the Leader to arrange a further debate on prostitution law following the excellent debate we had last night on foot of Senator Zappone's motion on prostitution law. I very much welcome the fact that during the debate, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I am not sure what Senator Walsh is talking about. I asked the Leader for a follow up debate in six months' time on prostitution law with the Minister, Deputy Shatter, or the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to follow up on the commitment the Minister of State gave last night that the Government would spend the next six months engaged in public consultation on the introduction of a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I join with Senator MacSharry in calling for a debate on how to prevent a repeat of the incident with the apartment block in Donaghmede. It is an appalling outcome to see hundreds of people, including elderly people and families with young children, being put in most inappropriate and unsuitable accommodation for perhaps weeks or even longer because of the inadequate building and the failure...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted Senator Darragh O'Brien raised the issue of the referendum on Oireachtas inquiries, one which I also want to raise. It is interesting because he does not sound like he was speaking about the same referendum we debated in the House for a full-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: As Senator Darragh O'Brien said, we had a four-hour debate on the Bill. All parties supported the referendum.