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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and Future of EU Development Funding: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Ms Keatinge and her colleagues for the great presentation. It is very helpful to have an emphasis on the implementation of the sustainable development goals. This committee has heard from Mr. David Donoghue and the role Ireland has played but it is important that we focus on it again. I also thank the witnesses for their kind words about the committee's report. The witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and Future of EU Development Funding: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We should pursue that.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I join colleagues in expressing my condolences to the family of Emma Mhic Mhathúna. It was such a tragic death. For those of us who were outside Leinster House when the funeral cortège passed, it was unspeakably sad. I also join Senators in marking International Day of the Girl. In the Seanad and in Leinster House we are celebrating the centenary of women's suffrage in Ireland...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: And judicial appointments.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It is the things the Government is not doing that are important.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Can I move it in her absence?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I support Senator Higgins's amendment but seeing as it has not been moved, I will comment on how the section could be improved on in the terms set out in her amendment, in which she suggested the commission should submit a report on its activities as per the provision under the section but, in particular, that the commission should report its progress in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: If I may-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: They are two different things. Senator Higgins's amendment refers to different objectives in gender balance but also around diversity.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I was about to pre-empt the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledge we are not discussing the amendment but I spoke to how the section could be improved through inserting language similar to that in the amendment.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Never say never.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House in the near future for a debate on deportations. I am particularly concerned about reports on the threatened deportation of a nine year old boy in Bray. He was born in Ireland and he has spent his entire life here. He is in fourth class in St. Cronan's national school in Bray but he faces imminent deportation to...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: However, because the referendum was passed, young children like Eric, and the young boy from Laois-Offaly, are being threatened with deportation, despite the fact that they have lived all their lives in the country, have a huge network of friends and a community here, and they know no other place as their home. They also hold no other citizenship. I appeal to the Leader to invite the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disability Support Services Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: This matter is in my name and that of my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin. We are delighted to see the Minister here and he is very welcome. I also extend the congratulations of the Labour Party group to the Minister on his new post. I thank him for taking this matter. The question we have raised, on foot of representations to both Senator Ó Ríordáin and me, is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disability Support Services Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his response. Similar answers have been given to individual parents who contacted the office of his predecessor. It still appears that there is no rational basis for the continued exclusion of children with Down's syndrome from the scheme. It appears that the policy is indirectly discriminatory as between different conditions or disabilities, particularly in the...

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: That is rather a challenge. I welcome the Minister and the opportunity to debate the important report. I say to the Leader that I hope we will have more time to debate it further as we are short of time. As the Minister has done, I commend Mr. Justice Charleton on his forensic analysis and very clear recommendations and findings in this important report. In the short time available to me,...

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am coming to a conclusion, and I am conscious that Senator Devine kindly shortened her contribution. I will be very brief in conclusion.

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I will be very brief in concluding. I will finish the point that the minority recommendation expressed concern that the new architecture proposed by the O'Toole commission might not offer the best prospects of achieving the goal of unambiguous, independent, empowered and transparent accountability. We need to reflect on how best to ensure that there is an external oversight body. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I echo the words of Senator Boyhan about the Government's decision yesterday on the Tuam mother and baby home. I commend the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, for taking the lead. I also commend Catherine Corless, without whose painstaking historical work, the matter would never have been uncovered. Senator Boyhan is right in saying the families of the babies buried...