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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (3 Feb 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome this Bill as an important piece of progressive penal reform. I compliment the Minister on all the work she has done and echo the comments made by Senators Conway and Wilson.She is an able and reforming Minister and she has always been so courteous and easy to deal with. I thank her for allowing so many Bills to start in the Seanad, which is important. She has steered through many...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (8 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will speak briefly on behalf of the Labour Party group. I congratulate Senator Norris on his status as father of the House. It has been my pleasure to serve with him as a Dublin University Senator for the past two terms and I look forward to serving with him this term. I echo Senator Norris's words about our former colleague, Dr. Sean Barrett, and I welcome Senator Lynn Ruane, our new...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (8 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party group, I welcome Senator Denis O'Donovan's election as Cathaoirleach and wish him well and comhghairdeas. He will make an excellent Cathaoirleach. I welcome the appointment of Senator Jerry Buttimer as Leader of the Seanad, and leader of the Fine Gael group. I saw how well the Senator chaired the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children during the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I join other colleagues in expressing the sympathies of the Labour Party group in the Seanad to all the victims and families of victims caught up in the horrific attack in Orlando, which was a homophobic hate crime, a crime of terror and a crime that has highlighted not only homophobia and terrorism but issues around gun control, particularly how somebody who had been under investigation by...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Senator Denis Landy be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach." I speak as a former Deputy Leader of this House and quite a number of women have held the positions of Leader and Deputy Leader over recent years. In fact, the Seanad has a much better record than the Dáil - it just needs to be stated - in terms of women's representation. That is an important point. We have hit the...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party group, I add my voice to those who are congratulating Senator Coghlan on his election as Leas-Chathaoirleach. He will do a superb job. It has been a pleasure to work with him over the past five years and I look forward to working with him in the future. I have had the pleasure that not many colleagues may have had of seeing him in his natural habitat of...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to the House. It is my first opportunity to do so and I think it is his first opportunity to be here with us. I welcome him and congratulate him on his appointment, having working with him on the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, which he so ably chaired for the past five years. I know he will do a great job and I wish him...

Seanad: Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to share time with my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin, with the slot divided in three minutes and two minutes. I stand to pay tribute to Jo Cox, MP, and join the tributes being paid by others as leader of the Labour Party group in the House, as a woman Labour Party public representative and as a mother of two young children, as Jo Cox was. The shocking and horrific...

Seanad: EU-UK Relations: Statements (22 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, back to the House and I congratulate him on his reappointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. I look forward to working with him, as I am now Labour Party spokesperson on foreign affairs. I commend the Government on the work that has been going on as detailed in the Minister's speech. This has included interventions such as the Taoiseach's...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I join other Senators in congratulating the Irish football team on a wonderful and deserved win against Italy last night. It was a superb match and the team played great. Like many others, I and my small daughters who play soccer were glued to the television. We all wish the team the best of luck on Sunday when we play France. I agree with Senator Norris that the sight of the President...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for organising statements today on the result of the UK referendum on EU membership. The result not only is deeply disappointing but represents a seismic shock in terms of its political and economic fallout, which is being felt on this island, in the UK and across the European Union. I look forward to participating this afternoon. I thank the Leader for ensuring the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: She is a tireless activist in this area and a very eminent academic who had the courage to take the case which prompted this report and which has highlighted public awareness of gender discrimination in universities.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, in the tradition of her grandfather. I ask the Leader for a debate on criminal justice policy and penal reform. I had the pleasure of attending a conference at NUI Maynooth last week on criminology and, today, a round-table discussion hosted by the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development on criminal justice, in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Equality...

Seanad: United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (28 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I am sharing time with Senator Humphreys. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan. It is clear from the debate today that many of us feel a profound sense of bleakness and sadness at the result in the referendum last week. It appears that Britain has turned its back on Europe and already we have seen immense fragmentation as a result of the vote. It also appears to mark a victory...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Copyright Legislation Review (29 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I congratulate her on her appointment, about which I was delighted. I wish her the best with it and I look forward to working with her in this House in her new role. This question concerns a matter which I know has been the subject of ongoing communications with the Minister's predecessor and with herself. It is the need for her to inform the House when...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Copyright Legislation Review (29 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister's full response to my question and thank her for it. I am particularly grateful to her for stating her own anxiety that rights holders will be able to enforce their intellectual property rights. As I have indicated, the current legal position amounts to a serious obstacle to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, particularly for small companies and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Copyright Legislation Review (29 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Ibrahim Halawa Case: Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and I thank him for taking this important debate. I join others who have expressed deep concern about the ongoing detention of Ibrahim Halawa. All of us are well aware of the background to the case. He was detained originally aged 17 in August 2013 and, therefore, still a child. Almost three years later at the age of 20, he remains incarcerated having...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to debate this important issue. All of us and others outside the House have spoken of the wider context in which the Bill is being proposed. All of us have seen horrific murders in recent weeks and months. Many have mentioned the shooting today in Lusk and there was another shooting last week very close to where I...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (5 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to clarify which motion he is talking about.