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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: This issue arose in the latest review. It is not a new deal. Senator Colm Burke commented on the budget and the need to be constructive in dealing rationally with it. That is an important point and I hope colleagues will remember it next week. Senator Ó Clochartaigh seconded the Sinn Féin amendment, which cannot be agreed. Senator O'Keeffe reminded us of a positive story in the Western...

Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: We discussed this difficult issue on Second Stage and we all appreciate a balance must be struck between ensuring the safety of children, which is a paramount consideration, and ensuring the legislation is reasonable. The Minister is correct to point out that reward cannot be the criterion. I know as a parent this is not just about a neighbour's child baby-sitting my child. Many people...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Listening to Senator MacSharry, one might think the Labour Party is in single-party Government. It is interesting that the Senator has constantly singled us out. I am not sure whether to be flattered or alarmed.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Senator on the revelations this morning that a journalist, Mr. Ed Moloney, provided. Any of us who heard the interview on "Morning Ireland" would have listened with real horror as he outlined very clearly the extent of knowledge that was not referred to in the de Silva report, which suggested that knowledge had come much later to the British authorities. There are very...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: We could start making comments about Fianna Fáil Senators who are not here either.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I ask for a ruling from the Chair. I thought there was a tradition or at least some sort of practice in this House of not naming Senators who were not present in the Chamber. Once we start doing that, we could do it on both sides.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you. I again commend the Leader for extending time yesterday on the Second Stage debate on the Social Welfare Bill. I thought it was a really good, comprehensive debate. I want, in particular, to welcome the comments made by the Minister, Deputy Burton, in her response on Second Stage and I call on the Leader to follow up on the Minister's commitment to publish the report on child...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ------and to see where there is a lack of availability of respite care places. On another note, I welcome the Government decision yesterday on the introduction of legislation and regulations to implement the X case and to comply with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the A, B and C case. Some 20 years after the X case, it is long overdue that we have Government action on...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I know we will have hearings before the Joint Committee on Health and Children, which is very welcome, but we need to move to keep pressure on within the Government to ensure the legislation is drafted and brought forward swiftly. The expert group report sets out a very clear blueprint for the content of such legislation. I very much welcome finally, after 20 years, a Government decision on...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Not my press releases.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with Senator Healy Eames on the Title. "Social Welfare Bill" is normally the general Title used to describe a Bill of this nature, although, in fairness to Senator Cullinane, there are quite a number of other issues in the Bill, in particular a number of reforming measures. I thank the Minister very much for her commitments last night in response to Second Stage speeches on the Bill...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I will, of course. I was merely referring to the Minister's comments last night as an example of the sort of other measures that are covered by the Bill and the fact, to come back to the issue of the Title, that it could well be referred to as the social welfare law reform Bill, given there is the earlier Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006. There have been some instances where...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: A Leas-Chathaoirligh-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I am and I will not wander.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I have a specific question for the Minister on section 1(4). We have been focusing on the issue of the coming into operation of section 13. Section 1(4) provides for sections 15, 16 and 17 coming into operation on different days as the Minister may order. Given what we have been talking about and the importance of that issue, what day does the Minister envisage those sections will be...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Specifically-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I just have a specific question about the likely date of the commencement order for-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is in section 1.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, Senator Moloney is right. Section 3 does not refer to that. Senator Cullinane wanted to insert a new section which would have referred to it but that was ruled out of order.