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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Fourteen years of Fianna Fáil government have led us to the state we are in.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, can I-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, I cannot make a contribution if I am continually interrupted. I also wish to renew calls for a debate with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are doing our best to bring him to the House to speak on a number of issues, but in particular, all of us are very concerned at this morning's news about Gaza and the position of the 14 Irish citizens who were on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: We do need a debate on Gaza. Different views were expressed in the House yesterday, but the immediate issue is the return of the 14 Irish citizens, who include people from all sorts of different political traditions in this country.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

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

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, to the House and thank her in advance for her support for this Bill. I also thank members of the Humanist Association of Ireland who are in the Gallery, in particular, Professor David McConnell, the president of the association, and Mr. Brian Whiteside, who gave great assistance in the preparation...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It is in the Act.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I bring the debate to a close by thanking the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, and I welcome the Minister of State to the House in her place. I thank colleagues on both sides who have spoken so eloquently on the Bill. I thank the members of the Humanist Association of Ireland for their help and support with the Bill. I should have offered a special thanks to the Minister's advisers and...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: On Tuesday, 15 November 2010.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: On Tuesday, 15 November at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Leader's announcement that a cross-party motion has been agreed on the sentencing to death of Pastor Nadarkhani in Iran, which is helpful. I remind leaders of the other groups that I have e-mailed an updated wording of a motion on Syria and would be grateful for cross-party support on that motion, particularly in light of recent reports of further abuses and killings by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I would be grateful for the support of colleagues of all parties on this issue. Again, it is a matter on which there was cross-party support in the last Seanad from both Government and Opposition parties.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Fourteen years of Fianna Fáil. It will not be a long debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I raise a point of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh. I was rising in any case on a point of order, to ask Senator O'Brien to withdraw the word "lie"-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----which is utterly unjustified and unwarranted.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It is unparliamentary, unjustified and untrue. The Minister-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I listened to Senator O'Brien.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: There was no lie.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I am afraid a pattern is emerging. I do Senator O'Brien the courtesy of listening to his outrageous attacks on different individuals. I listened to him making an outrageous assertion that the Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, lied. He has not lied. I ask Senator O'Brien to withdraw that very serious and untrue allegation.