Results 1,361-1,380 of 11,664 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I will not be pressing this amendment.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 17: In page 7, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: 4.—Where a developer retains any unit or units on completion of the development, each unit so retained shall be subject, on such completion, to a common liability for charges as if it had been disposed of by the developer.". As I said, I am not pressing this amendment.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I am sorry, I did not not realise they were being discussed together. No, I do not want to speak to them.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 31 is to section 14 and would insert a new subsection (2) providing that the "developer shall be liable to pay any charge under this section or section 15, within 30 days of invoice, for any unsold unit as if there were a unit owner for that unit.". It is an amendment that was suggested initially to us by the Apartment Owners Network to ensure the obligation to pay service...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 20: In page 7, to delete lines 41 to 46 and substitute the following: "(2) Subject to section 10(1), the transfer, in compliance with subsection (1), of the ownership of the relevant parts of the common areas of a multi-unit development and in the reversion relating to the units concerned may reserve the beneficial interest to the transferor if the reservation of such...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 29: In page 12, to delete lines 1 and 3 and substitute the following: "(4) Where development works commenced prior to the enactment of this Act, this section applies subject to the modification that any existing rules contrary to this section shall be modified within the 24 months following the commencement of this section.". This amendment seeks to ensure that "Where...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I see the Minister's issue with it but there is this more general problem of how the Bill applies to developments that are still in the process of being constructed when the Bill comes into force. Another person raised with me a similar issue in respect of section 5, that it does not appear to apply to a development which has been completed where the common areas have still not been...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I second the amendment which deals with an important principle. As Senator Mullen said, it relates to a very real issue of pressing concern to many apartment owners, the level — often the excessive level — of service charge payable. Generally, the provisions of section 15 are to be welcomed, as they will, I hope, guard against excessive service charges being levied on apartment owners....

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 47: In page 19, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: "(m) annulling house rules or any provision thereof if such rules interfere unreasonably with the rights of an owner of a unit.". This amendment is self-explanatory. It would give the court an additional power under section 19 by inserting a new paragraph (m) enabling the court to make an order "annulling...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 50: In page 20, to delete lines 38 to 46, to delete page 21 and in page 22, to delete lines 1 to 9 and substitute the following: "22.—(1) (a) Upon the request of any party to an application under section 19, the court may at any stage during the course of the proceedings (including immediately after the issue of the proceedings), if it considers that an Alternative...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Not in light of what the Minister has said.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 51: In page 24, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "1. Sections 2 to 4 (obligation to have owners' management company).". This amendment proposes that developments of two, three or four units should have owners' management companies. If this change is not made, the existing paragraphs of the Schedule will make little sense. I suppose it is a clarifying or...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I am not pressing the amendment.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I think that is called damning with faint praise.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister and his officials, who have been very helpful. I would like to express my personal gratitude to them for the accommodating way in which they have dealt with Members on this Bill. We had a good debate on Committee and Report Stages. I thank the Apartment Owners Network and the RIAI for their help and submissions. As the Minister said, it is to be hoped this Bill will...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Like the other speakers, I welcome the announcement that Senator Callely will make a statement following the Order of Business. As the other speakers have noted, Members require a full and comprehensive statement to resolve this matter. It has been a most unwelcome distraction in a week of serious political events both here and elsewhere and has served to bring all Members into disrepute....

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: It is. There is a lobby today of Friends of the Earth and Stop Climate Chaos.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: If only Senator Boyle's voting record were as deadly as his Tweeting record.