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Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Employment Equality (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2013. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and thank her for taking the Bill on behalf of the Government. I also welcome to the Visitors Gallery representatives of many groups who have an interest in the Bill. They have campaigned for it for...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all Senators for their kind works and for the unanimous support expressed for this Bill. I also thank Senator Moran for seconding it so eloquently and my other Labour Party colleague, Senator O'Keeffe, for her eloquent words. I thank Senator Barrett for outing me as an atheist preacher. That was a one off event in the Trinity College chapel. I would particularly like to thank the...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That would be a good way of moving on and it would not be unduly rushed. There were critiques of aspects of the Bill despite the overall welcome, particularly from Senator Zappone. There is a constraint not only in domestic law but also under EU Framework Directive 78/2000. Article 4 of the directive places constraints on how we can move forward on this, particularly the reference to...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Could I also wish colleagues a happy St. Patrick?s Day, given that it falls this weekend? I agree that it is important that our Ministers travel abroad to represent Ireland across the world to ensure that we can get the maximum benefit for this country in terms of tourism and support for the economy at this time. It should be a great weekend at home in terms of people travelling here and...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: -----and achieve Government support for them and thereby result in changes in the law that benefit society. That is most important. I ask the Leader if we could have a debate at some stage in the future on the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in the Constitution. I will speak later this morning at an event being organised by Amnesty International in conjunction with a...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister for Finance will come to the House this afternoon on Second Stage of the Finance Bill. Colleagues will raise the very worrying situation in Cyprus. The decision by the Cypriot Parliament sets down a marker that the people of Cyprus will not stand for the levy on depositors which was proposed. Senator MacSharry has placed undue emphasis on the Government. While it chairs the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris says it is less than 18% which is what I had heard too, contrary to reports which suggest that half of deposits were from Russian investors. In fact, it is less than 20%. In any case, the idea of a levy on depositors was a step too far and the risk of contagion too great. I hope we will see a renegotiation of the deal. I welcome the publication yesterday of a Bill to reform...

Seanad: Restorative Justice Process: Motion (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to the House and look forward to hearing her response to this debate. I commend Senator Martin Conway on his initiative in putting this important motion to the House. I also welcome the groups represented in the Visitors Gallery, who agree it is very important we debate this issue, particularly in the wake of the report of the National...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to Jimmy Walsh on the day we celebrate his long and successful career.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. That is very helpful. I am aware some colleagues paid tributes last Thursday and I was unable to do it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is very appropriate. I thank the Leader for making that time available. All of us would appreciate that. I know Jimmy Walsh will appreciate it also. I am sure every Member will join me in expressing relief that an agreement has been made in resolving the issues in Cyprus. It is welcome that deposit holders who have deposits of less than ¤100,000 will no longer be levied in the way...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator MacSharry took a similar opportunity.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps I will say no more about the Meath East by-election.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That might have caused ructions in Trinity College.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I listened with interest to the debate and was not going to participate until Senator Barrett referred to the issues Senator Power has addressed in her amendments. The relevant provision does not punish a parent whose child has been excluded, it is there to prolong his or her membership of the board. Where he or she ceases to have a child under the age of 18 registered as a student by reason...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome Senator Power's amendment because it gives us an opportunity to discuss the matter. Having said that, Senator Power has already acknowledged that the numbers have increased since the first draft of the Bill was published. I looked back at the Bill as amended by the Select Sub-Committee and there were only four members appointed in accordance with subsection (9) and ten members in...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and thank him for bringing forward amendment No. 4. It has the same aim and effectively accepts in principle what Senator Moran and I are seeking to do through amendment No. 7. I do not take offence at Senator Power's remarks. She is quite right that the Government amendment is more elegantly worded.