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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is great reassurance. I thank the Minister. Amendment No. 325 is also very welcome.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is unfortunate timing that all of us are due to speak in the Chamber for statements on International Women's Day just as these crucial amendments are coming up so I express regret that we will be in and out of the Chamber. My amendments in this grouping are Nos. 119 to 122, inclusive; Nos. 123 to 126, inclusive; Nos. 132 to 137, inclusive; and No. 144. I have other amendments in the next...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 119: In page 16, lines 20 and 21, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 120: In page 16, lines 23 and 24, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 104: In page 14, to delete lines 14 and 15 and substitute the following: “(a) the name of a person other than the mother of the first mentioned person was falsely or otherwise incorrectly entered in the register of births as the mother of the first mentioned person, and”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: If I may, I would like to come in on that point before I have to leave to go to the Dáil Chamber. It is a case of unfortunate timing. The Minister is quoting back to me, as I had anticipated. I have been measured in my comments. I acknowledge that this is a far preferable option that the Minister is presenting us with as a means of balancing rights. A few years ago, when we proposed...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 121: In page 16, line 28, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 122: In page 16, line 28, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 123: In page 17, lines 29 and 30, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 124: In page 17, lines 32 and 33, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 125: In page 17, line 34, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 126: In page 17, to delete lines 38 and 39, and in page 18, to delete lines 1 to 5.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 132: In page 18, lines 38 and 39, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 133: In page 19, lines 1 and 2, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 135: In page 19, lines 5 and 6, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 199 is the substantive amendment I seek to make. It is to give effect to the recommendation we made in the pre-legislative scrutiny report to replace the mandatory information session with a requirement that the authority sends a registered post, or other recorded delivery, letter to applicants setting out the relevant information. I apologise because I had to leave in the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful the Minister did that.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We are agreed that there have been lots of variations of this and that the understanding of how best to balance rights has changed and developed. The problem remains that the mandatory information session strikes many adopted persons as an unduly paternalistic approach. It is still balanced too much on that side. It harks back to when the view was taken that we could not give people access...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I commend Deputies Cian O'Callaghan and Whitmore and their colleagues on bringing forward this important Bill. The Labour Party offers its strong support for it. All of our thoughts at this time are with the people of Ukraine, who are enduring the horrific bombardment of the brutal Russian invasion. Other speakers have pointed out that this Bill has an application for the many people...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (22 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann fleet, excluding the school transport fleet, as of 31 December 2019, 31 December 2020 and 1 March 2022, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14540/22]