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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what I said.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I will be brief as I am conscious of the time and also that others have been making Second Stage speeches, as Senator Aideen Hayden said. This is not the time to do so. On the specific points raised, I am grateful to Senator Averil Power for referring to the sunset clause. I will reconsider the most recent evidence on whether it would be wise to include a sunset clause if there is a fear...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I conducted research in 2003 and we published the first study in Ireland of gender discrimination in the legal profession. We found that while well over two thirds of all law students nationally were women who have been in the majority since the mid-1980s, they were a tiny minority at the top levels of the profession. I suspect the same is true of the medical profession. What this...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to hear that. A key point about the legislation concerns the pipeline fallacy, the idea that it will happen if we let things to continue organically. It will not. That is why we need the legislation.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I have forgotten already.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I certainly do. It's title is Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the 21st Century, published by O'Brien Press in 2004.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Thanks for the plug.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: He did that on Second Stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: There is certainly not one voice from Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Leader on organising Thursday's briefing on the EU treaty. I agree with what Senator Darragh O'Brien said about attendance and I certainly recommend it to all the Labour Senators. It is very important to have a good attendance from Senators at that important briefing. However, I wish to respond to what he said on where the Government stands on the treaty. Clearly, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: -----including the issue of the promissory notes that the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, mentioned. To hear Fianna Fáil calling for a clear message when there are two voices on the treaty emanating from that party is ironic.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The message is very clear from the Government. We stand very clearly behind the "Yes" campaign for this referendum on the new fiscal compact treaty.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is not about anything else, sweeteners or bribes, a point which has come very clearly from Labour and Fine Gael Ministers alike. I call for a debate with the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, on schools patronage. I take issue with Senator Darragh O'Brien's comment that minority faiths feel the Government is doing nothing for them. Far from it.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Deputy Quinn is the first education Minister to set up a national forum on patronage and pluralism in primary schools.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is due to report in the next several weeks and it will examine precisely how parents' conscience and preference in terms of faith schooling for their children will be accommodated in a fast-changing Ireland in which we see increasing numbers of children of different faiths and no faiths.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Our current system of school patronage with 96% of primary schools under Catholic patronage does not reflect the growing reality of Irish families today.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I compliment the Minister's announcement today-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: -----on the patronage of a number of new schools, including several Educate Together schools in Tallaght and elsewhere, which will reflect a multidenominational ethos which is very important. I have a question for the Leader on Syria. All Members must be appalled by what they see happening in the besieged city of Homs and today's reports on the torture of not just civilians, but hospital...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Cosúil le Seanadóir Ó Bríain, ba mhaith liom cúpla focail a rá as Gaeilge i seachtain na Gaeilge. Níl go leor Gaeilge agam anois ach bhí fáinne airgead agamsa nuair a bhí mé ar scoil cúpla bliain ó shin. Beidh lá na mná ann amárach. Quite a number of occasions will mark national women's day tomorrow. I welcome the fact that we will finish our debate on the Electoral...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business 1is No. 1, statements on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and conclude not later than 4 p.m., with the contributions of spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes. I ask all those interested to take part...