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Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Present company excepted.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I do not think any Member has suggested during this debate that the State would decide everything. I think we have moved quite significantly away from the Committee Stage debate on the amendments.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: We are taking them together.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Power is discussing related ones as well.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I support the making of amendment No. 5 having had a small hand in it with Senator Zappone. It would be useful to include a specific reference to the employee's or prospective employee's right to privacy to strengthen the already strong test and high bar that I have already referred to as the "one plus five" test. A specific reference to privacy in subsection (1C)(c) would be helpful and...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome very much the acceptance by the Minister of amendment No. 5, which is a very straightforward amendment which seeks to capture the spirit of all of our concerns. We must put to rest the concern that somebody's marital status might be a ground of discrimination following this. Even without the amendment on privacy, it is clear from the wording of subsection (1C) that the action of...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: That is explicit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Legal Highs: Discussion (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am a member of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and "herbal highs" is the more correct term in the sense that these are not legal highs in this jurisdiction. Is that right? The report said there is a lack of clarity regarding the substances' legal status. I wanted to clarify that. Did the witnesses mean that people who are taking them are not necessarily clear as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (9 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for attending the committee today. I also welcome his appointment, which, as others have said, is hugely important. As a member of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, I welcome, in particular, the fact that the Minister of State is now in charge of developing a national drugs strategy which is to commence after 2016. I welcome...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the motion on the appointment of the chair of Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. It is a very fine appointment and I am delighted to see the matter on the Order Paper notwithstanding the fact there is clearly no need for debate on it. In terms of the situation in Greece, I was one of the Members who spoke on it last week. All of us have immense concern for the people...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: We need to wait at least until the Greek Parliament has debated it.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: That seems to be changing all the time. I ask the Leader for a debate in the autumn on hate crime legislation. I was present at the launch of a report yesterday by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties together with University of Limerick academics who have drawn up draft legislation on hate crimes. They propose the introduction of aggravated offences against the person and an aggravated...

Seanad: Appointment of Chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Referral to Joint Committee (14 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: That information is on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland on the work it has been doing for a number of years on the issue of undocumented migrants living in Ireland. Today it published a poll, conducted on its behalf by Red C Research, which shows that 69% of Irish people wish to see the position of undocumented migrants residing in Ireland regularised. At the justice committee meeting today we are due...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It is always difficult to follow Senator Norris but this is a day to celebrate as we see the final passage of the Gender Recognition Bill through the Seanad. I welcome all the visitors in the Gallery and pay tribute to those who have worked so hard to see this day finally happen, particularly Dr. Lydia Foy and Michael Farrell. I will not say they have worked on this for generations, as...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I was referring to limits on the time within which a court can deliver a judgment.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator might look at the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and the work we have been doing. In fact, we had a debate on appointments to the Judiciary in the past few months, at my initiation, looking at the work of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, JAAB, and gender breakdown among the Judiciary. I tabled a matter on the Adjournment on this issue a short time ago....

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I object to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I object in the strongest possible terms to the use of that language by the Senator in respect of a very respected NGO, the Irish Family Planning Association.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is entitled to his opinion. I am afraid his credentials on the issue of-----