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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator's comments about the Minister for Health were unwarranted, particularly when he is introducing a Bill his party supports.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach's visit to the House yesterday was extremely useful for us. It was particularly welcome to hear him give the comprehensive update on developments at EU level and plans for Ireland's Presidency of the European Council next year. It was also very welcome to hear him say that he anticipates a resolution being reached on the issue of breaking the vicious cycle between banking debt...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is playing party politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Shame on Senator Leyden.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Shame on the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Shame on the Senator for playing party politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Shame on the Senator for playing party politics with a tragedy.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister is right. It is good to hear that Sinn Féin, like other parties, agrees in principle with the idea of a single scheme applying to all public servants. Members of the Oireachtas are patently not public servants in the same way as a public servant who has a career in the Civil Service. As the Minister has said, the reality of elections every five years or more frequently means...

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The rest goes to the party.

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Like the Minister, I do not wish to prolong debate on this issue. It is hard to take a lecture from Sinn Féin about saving the State money because its representatives employ someone on some of their salary.

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Any Deputy or Senator who employs a child-minder or somebody else-----

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is the same thing. He or she is giving someone on the live register a job and that person is paid tax on his or her earnings.

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator should not lecture us from the moral high ground.

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Having listened to Senator Cullinane without shouting at him, it is inappropriate that he is shouting at me. I am making a fair and reasonable point that any Senator or Deputy or any other person who earns an income and employs somebody out of his or her earned income is creating employment and enabling the employee to pay tax on the earned income. This is not something on which any of us...

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: We had a very full debate on Second Stage about the issue of the retirement age and about the merits of even having a mandatory retirement age. The Minister very fairly made the point that 70 is the maximum in the Bill and that it seems a reasonable proposition, while taking on board the very persuasive arguments put forward by Senators from both sides of the House about the merit of having...

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I read these amendments and I was surprised and somewhat shocked to see that the Senator is proposing to insert an absolute figure into legislation which, as Senator Cullinane noted, will only apply prospectively. It seems to be no more than bad legislating to provide for a cap of a set amount – Sinn Féin is proposing a cap of €60,000 and I note a figure of €37,500 is referred to in...

Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I taught Senator Byrne well.

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. Like Senator Paul Bradford, I was not in a position to attend yesterday's comprehensive Second Stage debate, in which the Minister and others spoke movingly about the plight of those persons whose difficulties the Bill seeks to address. To echo Senator Marie Moloney, I appreciate the sentiment behind these amendments while also recognising that different...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and I also welcome the indication from Sinn Féin of its support for all of the amendments. Although we are only speaking on the technical amendments now, the Minister referred to the context for the rest of the amendments. We had a full debate in this House on the original Parts 1 to 5 of the Bill and we discussed the need to ensure greater transparency...