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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It has been nothing but negativity. I have listened to Sinn Féin spokespersons being negative about every single piece of progress and every advance the Government has made.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Let us look at the substance of it. Senators Cummins, Hayden, Gilroy and others put forward the substance of the Bill. It is clear, as the Minister said in his opening statement, that none of us wants to be in a position of introducing the legislation. No Government would introduce cuts to public sector pay by choice. This is a circumstance in which we are in and these are circumstances...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: To be fair, the previous Croke Park agreement was negotiated by the previous Government. I pay tribute to the unions that engaged in the process and stayed with it. I pay tribute to the Labour Relations Commission, which facilitated the process that led to the Haddington Road agreement. It is an agreement that, as others have said, protects the core pay of 87% of those working in the...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Many people on this side could see how difficult the economic situation was and how little finance was available to Ireland. That is what we are trying to get out of through this sort of measure, which is not palatable or something that appeals to any of us. We see it as a necessary way to achieve the economic recovery we are aiming for and working towards. The Government greatly values...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Order Paper contains a motion regarding the construction of Cork Prison that will be taken without debate. I welcome the fact that a new facility will be built on a site that has been condemned for many years for its poor prison conditions by international and national inspectors. I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on the greater and more general issue of prison building and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: There genuinely are differing views in my own party and in Fine Gael on this issue. People are entitled to personal views and retention or otherwise.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: However, given the referendum is proposed and is likely to take place in the early autumn and given there will be a detailed and comprehensive debate on the subject, one must make sure it is conducted in a respectful manner.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is important for everyone.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2013: Motion for Earlier Signature (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Criminal Justice Bill 2013 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2013: Motion for Earlier Signature (11 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I echo the words of the Cathaoirleach. Yesterday, I called for a respectful debate on the referendum on the future of the Seanad, and it was unfortunate that later in the Order of Business there was some conduct-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is relevant to how we conduct our debate in the House. It is important that we conduct ourselves with decorum and be respectful of the House. This is all that needs to be said on the matter. I call for a debate on the issue of domestic violence and violence against women and children in the home. The figures released by Women's Aid today show a very worrying rise in the abuse of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Or the Raspberries.

Seanad: European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (12 Jun 2013)

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

Seanad: European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and am delighted to have the opportunity to speak for the Labour Party on this Bill, which I greatly welcome. In particular, I thank the Minister for introducing the Bill in this House. It always is welcome to see Ministers so do, where there often tends to be a more conducive atmosphere for the introduction of amendments and for having a wide-ranging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I apologise for my late arrival. I was attending another meeting. I welcome Dr. McVeigh and Dr. Mac Laughlin whom I know by reputation. I am delighted to see them both here and I thank them for coming before the committee. I read their papers in advance of the meeting and they make a very strong case for recognition of Traveller ethnicity and this is very much to be welcomed from my point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is a very important practical point. I remember examining it before. It picks up on something in Dr. Mac Laughlin's paper on different phases of anti-Traveller racism. He points out that in the 1980s and 1990s legislation was introduced to tackle anti-Traveller racism. It strikes me this legislation named Travellers as a specific group and anti-Traveller discrimination is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: At present there are nine grounds; ethnicity is one and Traveller status is a separate ground. I am interested in the views of the witnesses on this. Should it be retained as a separate ground? It is the jurisprudence we have developed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Exactly. If we recognise ethnicity as a discriminatory ground it would encompass anti-Traveller discrimination, but at the time the State fudged it to avoid recognising Traveller ethnicity.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator O’Brien, I wish to begin by also offering condolences to the Bolger family from Passage East in Waterford. The accident that happened at sea yesterday was an utter tragedy. All of our thoughts and condolences are with their family. On a happier note I remind colleagues that today is Yeats Day. Our colleague, Senator Susan O’Keeffe, is in Sligo today and is very...