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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 76:In page 24, to delete lines 15 to 17 and substitute the following: “(a) teaches one or more subjects in the field of law, and (b) carries out research, or supervises the carrying out of post-graduate research, in one or more such subjects,”.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We withdrew it on the basis that the Minister and I had an exchange on it and I am grateful to the Minister for indicating a willingness to consider the issue and an inclination to accept at least the spirit of it. I just want to check the wording of it. I fully intend resubmitting a similar amendment on Report Stage. I said all this earlier.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Just to put the record straight on a point of order, I am not simply withdrawing an amendment unilaterally. We had quite an extensive discussion.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We had a discussion and I explained the basis of its withdrawal. I would take issue with any suggestion, and I do not think Senator McDowell intended it-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: -----that I am withdrawing it without any due consideration.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 77: In page 24, to delete lines 34 to 41 and substitute the following:“(6) In this section ‘educational establishment’ means a university to which the Universities Act 1997 applies, and in computing, for the purposes of this section, any period that a person must have served as a legal academic, successive employment of the person by 2 or more of any...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: It had occurred to me before Senator McDowell raised this issue that the technological universities might be covered. Certainly there are excellent law faculties and departments in very many of them, so that is an important point. It relates to a point I made earlier in respect of the in-house lawyers and the relationship between this Bill and the other legislation such as the Legal...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 90 is a more substantial and significant amendment than the other amendments in this group and I am at a loss as to why my amendment, No. 91, is included.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am quite happy that it would not be dealt with in this group because while it is a proposed amendment to section 44, which is also the subject of amendment-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am happy to separate it.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, it does not make any difference. Amendment No. 91 is better dealt with along with amendments Nos. 86 and 87, both of which refer to gender balance in appointments. That appears to be the more appropriate grouping.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I will discuss amendment No. 91 when we reach amendments Nos. 86 and 87. On amendment No. 90, the Minister has indicated a willingness to move on this given that there was provision for a similar senior level judicial appointments committee in the original version of the Bill. That is welcome. If Senator McDowell's amendment or some variation of it was accepted, our amendment No. 91 does...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to the House. I also welcome our guests arriving in the Gallery from the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland and the Immigrant Council of Ireland to hear this important debate. On behalf of my Labour Party colleagues, Senators Ó Ríordáin, Humphreys and Nash, I move this important and...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Billy Lawless has been a proud champion of the rights of the Irish in America over many years, and I am proud that he is here to support our Bill because it is utterly consistent with Government policy in respect of our own migrants for many generations. I am conscious, and I know the Minister will be also, that there are at least two cases currently before the courts on the issue of...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: We have been held up internationally on that basis. I am very glad the Government has moved on that and I pay tribute to the work done by the Minister previously as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on which Senator Conway and I had the pleasure of serving for some years. In that capacity, the Minister was very conscious to ensure the rights of persons here in direct...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, Hear.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Correct.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Correct.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I think it is only five minutes per speaker once the group leaders have spoken.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is putting it up to the Minister of State.