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Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will be brief because I know a number of other Senators wish to speak in the short time available. I welcome the Minister of State and, in particular, the members of the deaf community and their supporters in the Visitors Gallery. It is great to see so many of them in the Chamber. I commend Senator Mark Daly for his tenacity and persistence in pursuing this issue and promoting the Bill...

Seanad: Judicial Council: Motion (19 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy David Stanton, to the House. It was a pleasure to work with him on the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Defence in the lifetime of the last Seanad and Dáil. I look forward to working with him on many of the issues the joint committee worked so hard on over those few years. It is also worth paying tribute to the proposer and seconder of...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for putting the motion on Syria on the Order Paper. We will be taking it straight after the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate. I thank all colleagues who signed up to that. Every political party grouping has signed up. I know Senator Boyhan's name is to be added as well. Any other Independent colleagues who wish to have their names added should do so....

Seanad: Syrian Conflict: Motion (20 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I move:That Seanad Éireann:- recognising the six year old conflict in Syria as one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises since the Second World War, involving 8 million displaced people inside Syria, 4.5 million people under siege or inaccessible, 4.5 million refugees beyond Syrian borders, 1.5 million people injured and more than 250,000 people killed; - noting that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and thank him for his update. It is timely given the very great concern that has been expressed and which we all share about the mounting casualties in Aleppo and Syria. I echo the words of the Chairman and colleagues on that. On the initiative of Labour Party Senators and I, there is an all-party motion before the Seanad today condemning the attacks in Syria,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I was glad to hear the Minister's comments on neutrality. I know that he will give a response on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA. I should have raised the matter given that a motion on CETA was passed in the Seanad at the behest of our colleague, Senator Higgins. I ask him for an update on the Government's response to the motion. I thank the Minister for his full...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I asked the Minister about recognition of Kurdistan and the Kurdish minority in Turkey.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for welcoming to the House Dr. Ashwani Kumar, a former Minister for justice from India and a member of the Indian Parliament who is here as my guest along with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of Trinity College. It is an honour to have both of them here, particularly at a time when Trinity is welcoming many students from India and other countries worldwide. In that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Female Genital Mutilation (26 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and am delighted that she is responding to this issue. I raised it with her at the UNFPA launch last Friday. In light of recent media reports that an act of female genital mutilation, FGM, was reported to the HSE and the Garda in September, will the Minister of State say how many cases of FGM have been reported to the Garda since the enactment of the Criminal...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Female Genital Mutilation (26 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for her reply, in particular for acknowledging the work of AkiDwA and the Irish Family Planning Association. I was at the launch of the specialist clinic, which was very important. I wish to make three brief points in response. First, I am aware of the difficulty with crime statistics, and AkiDwA has raised the matter with me. We need to change the way crime...

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and commend Senator Mark Daly on introducing this Bill. Others have spoken about the long history and background to the introduction of an offence of corporate manslaughter. It is not a new idea, it has been around a long time.I am happy, on behalf of the Labour Party, to support the Bill. We introduced the first Labour Party Bill on corporate manslaughter in 2001....

Seanad: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Second Stage (27 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I give my wholehearted support and that of the Labour Party to the Bill. It is very welcome and all who have spoken have endorsed it. The Minister set out clearly the impetus behind the Bill and set it in the context of international humanitarian law more generally and in the context of a climate where we are seeing increasing recognition of the need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their comprehensive presentation. I agree with Deputy Darragh O'Brien that all members unreservedly condemn the appalling incursions on press freedom we have seen in Turkey since the failed coup. We also join the witnesses in condemning the coup. It is clear, however, that the response has been disproportionate. If one examines the list of media outlets that have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I support the Chairman's proposal that the committee writes to the Minister. I also suggest we ask him not only to outline the concerns expressed here with the Foreign Affairs Council but also directly with the Turkish ambassador. Have we already invited the Turkish ambassador before us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: It can be discussed separately. If we write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade we might ask him to raise concerns with the Turkish Embassy as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement of Strategy: Motion (3 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: It makes sense to include it. I am looking at the strategy to see where it could best be inserted. That is a consideration. Obviously, it is a matter for the Department of Defence. There is a reference under the values part of the strategy to a secure world and a stable and secure rules-based international environment. Specific reference is made to cross-departmental work, defence and...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: Others have spoken already about the US presidential election result and clearly that is the issue uppermost in everyone's mind today. I call on the Deputy Leader to organise a debate on foreign policy in this House in light of that election result because there are serious implications for Ireland on which other speakers have touched. Ms Hillary Clinton's defeat is a huge disappointment...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: The House will be taking Committee Stage of the Heritage Bill today. Many of us have expressed opposition to section 8 and the provision which would allow the cutting, destroying and removal of hedgerows in August and burning in uplands in March. We have all received multiple e-mails on this and I hope we can see a way of resolving that issue on Committee Stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I object. It is not appropriate.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the many people who are in the Gallery to represent the various unions that have been campaigning on this matter for some time. SIPTU, the National Union of Journalists, Equity, the Musicians Union of Ireland and many other unions have a long-standing commitment to reform in this area. The Bill we are considering on Report Stage today...