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Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is obsessed with the Tories.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator Barrett for his kind words in regard to myself and Senator Byrne, both of whom are graduates of Trinity College law school.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: So did I.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: That is correct. I am interested in the point raised by Senator Barrett. I do not think the Comptroller and Auditor General is equivalent to a judge. I thought the amendment was directed at a different issue, namely, that the Senator believed the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General should not be subject to the same provisions because the Comptroller and Auditor General has a function...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Byrne referred to people being taken to the cleaners. Unfortunately, this Department is being established because the country has been taken to the cleaners. The amendment proposed by Senator Barrett envisages the sort of scrutiny of public appointments that was put forward as a suggestion for Seanad reform in the O'Rourke report, which we have already debated in the House. It is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the appointment of members of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, to be taken without debate at the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to commence at noon and conclude at 3 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the contributions of group...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I thank those Members who wished me good luck in my first day standing in for the Leader. I have big shoes to fill, given that Senator Cummins has being doing an excellent job as Leader. I will respond to the speakers in turn. I welcome Senator Darragh O'Brien's support for the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, on which we would all acknowledge much work was done under the previous...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It was not quite disowning, perhaps. Senator Mullen also raised the reduction in the number of TDs and asked about a referendum in that regard. It is a matter that will go before the constitutional convention that is to be established under the programme for Government. The constitutional convention will consider all aspects of electoral and political reform, which is an issue the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator Quinn. I was aware of that. Senator Leyden and a number of Senators, including Senator Ó Murchú and Senator Walsh, raised the issue of Gaza. I have long been a supporter of the Palestinian people and have been quite outspoken on that issue. I agree the conditions for the people in Gaza under blockade are intolerable and that we should have a strong voice in support of...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Seanad Éireann, in accordance with section 8(3)(b ) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003 to 2009, appoints the ordinary Members of the Commission as follows: Senators Marc MacSharry, Tom Sheahan and John Whelan.

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I wish the Senator good luck.

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to the House. We have seen much of him already and I expect we will see more, even in this session, as he continues to introduce justice legislation. Support is forthcoming from both sides of the House for this Bill and I am pleased to offer my support on behalf of the Labour Party. As Senator Jillian van Turnhout said,...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Motion for Earlier Signature (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her.".

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Motion for Earlier Signature (30 Jun 2011)

Ivana Bacik: At 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday next.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator O'Brien, I welcome the report from the independent body that looked at the siting of the national children's hospital. Many concerns have been expressed about the way in which the decision to locate the hospital on the Mater Hospital site was taken originally. I was among the many who had misgivings about the decision, validly, I believe. People were concerned the decision had...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: As Senator O'Brien noted, we now need to know there will be commitment to open the hospital by 2015. This is very much contingent on funding, as we all know. The original plan had envisaged a substantial amount of funding would be sourced from private benefactors but there is a large question mark over that now, quite apart from the issue of Government funding. In the context of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----and we all hope to see that bear fruit very soon.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator should stop posturing.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senators Quinn and Mooney, I welcome the proposed change, which is a significant improvement on the utterly inadequate legal position currently in place, to allow for the first time a limit of 12 years on the length of a bankruptcy and to allow an application for discharge after five rather than 12 years. I do not want to go over what has been a long debate on this issue on which I...