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Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 17:In page 19, in line 31, after “judges,” to insert the following:“including materials relevant to the exercise by judges of their functions in conducting criminal trials with a jury, including but not limited to the functions of:(i) trial management; (ii) jury management; and (iii) directing the jury,”.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator. I am conscious the amendment speaks to a similar issue to Government amendment No. 18 and amendment No. 19, which has been tabled by Senator Ruane and her colleagues.I believe all of these stem from the same impetus or motivation. I have raised this point on previous Stages of the Bill. Our purpose in drafting amendment No. 17 was to ensure a specific role for the...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I was waiting for you to say that, Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for acknowledging my role in raising this issue on Committee Stage. It is an important issue and I am glad that the Minister of State has listened to what has been said and that Government amendment No. 18 was drafted in response to the concern I raised. It was certainly an omission from section 17(3) to not have reference in that provision to criminal trials...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I will withdraw my amendment.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I congratulate the Minister of State and his officials on the passage of the Bill through the Seanad and I welcome the legislation. As others have said, it is long overdue for us to establish a judicial council for so many reasons. It is important and good that we are seeing this through. I am particularly pleased that we have seen within the Bill a framework for the structuring of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I have not intervened on this provision until now. When listening to the discussion, it struck me there is somewhat of an anomaly in section 56(4) itself. While I accept we have not yet reached that section, it was highlighted by Senator McDowell’s amendment, which refers to changes recommended under section 56(4)(a).I am puzzled as to why the wording of section 56(4) lists a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disability Inclusion and International Development Issues: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise for arriving late; I was attending another meeting. I can stay for the remainder of the meeting, however, as I do not have to leave at 3 p.m. It was valuable to hear the emphasis on disability in international development. I commend all the witnesses and Dóchas on co-ordinating the briefings we have received. We were all...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I join colleagues in welcoming the family of Senator Lawless to the Gallery. While we have visitors from America here, I commend the US women's soccer team on their victory and progress to the final of the World Cup. It is brilliant to see women's football being televised and achieving such enormous audiences and success. We look forward to the final. I join colleagues also in welcoming...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I simply congratulated the team on their performance.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I listened with great interest to what Senators McDowell and Conway-Walsh said about the future of the island in the light of the increasing and awful prospect of a no-deal Brexit. I will add a small observation of my own. A most unfortunate development has arisen post the Vótáil 100 programme we held last summer. Colleagues will recall that as part of the programme, I along with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: At the end of term, whenever it falls.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: It is always the Department of Justice and Equality.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to confirm that it is becoming a tradition.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: We have given it lots of time.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to the House to introduce this important Bill in the Seanad. I am particularly pleased to welcome him given his former role as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. It was my pleasure to serve on that committee under his chairmanship, from 2011 to 2016. As Senator Conway noted, the committee produced several...

Seanad: Courts (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the amendment. It is sensible to make this provision and to do so in this Bill rather than in the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill which we will shortly have the pleasure of debating again. I did not get the opportunity to speak on Second Stage of this Bill. I very much welcome it. It is a brief and sensible Bill which seeks to extend the number of judges on the Court of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House for another instalment, perhaps the final instalment, of Committee Stage of this Bill.I hear from Senator Boyhan that Senator McDowell is withdrawing amendment No. 103b, which I think is wise. The motivation behind it is clear and admirable but the wording of the provision is inelegant, at best. It is somewhat clunky and the Bill is already full of...