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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ----- particularly when the Bill in question is not a matter of urgency. Those of us involved in politics - in my case, for what seems like a very long time - have no difficulty with sitting for long hours and sitting late-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Quinn referred to the school holidays as being too long. Primary school holidays are only two months long - it is just July and August. There are good pedagogical reasons children and teachers should have a break from the intensity of lessons. I speak as a parent of primary school children.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will undertake research to discern the number of persons in Ireland that are living with long Covid and to produce recommendations to him regarding a national response to long Covid including provision of occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nutrition and dietetics and counselling. [50041/21]

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Ivana Bacik: ...ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for a debate on prisons policy? It is generally overlooked as the cliche is that there are no votes in prisons. People are locked up for long periods. Last night, three young mothers in Cork were locked up for long sentences. The question never asked is what purpose does this serve? While the Minister is proceeding on the prison...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ivana Bacik: .... We were all concerned to see the terrible civilian casualties in Gaza in recent weeks, particularly the horrific killing of nine members of one family, including a number of children. For a long time, many of us have raised the appalling humanitarian conditions endured by the citizens of Gaza, who are under constant threat to their livelihoods and health. We would like to see a...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the passage of the Parole Bill, which is long overdue, where we will be placing the parole board and process on a statutory framework and footing. It is in keeping with my party's long-standing policy and with many recommendations from different bodies, including the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality. I am grateful to the Minister of State, his officials and for the help and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...and expeditious manner. Given that the evidence they gather is not admissible in similar criminal proceedings, they were supposed to be effective, efficient truth-finding mechanisms. Also, given how long the report has taken on just this one aspect, reading the report could be said to be like examining a long-buried time capsule with a story from long ago. If it is taking too long to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...House who cycle in daily will, like myself, be anxious to know why we are not seeing better provision for cyclists and cycling, especially during a pandemic and as we face a climate crisis.It is long overdue. I cannot understand why it has taken the commission and the OPW so long to move on this. I urge those at the meeting today to let us have decent bicycle parking facilities and...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...Climate change legislation is a key element of its programme for which it should be pushing. Senator Hannigan, others on this side of the House and I, who have been calling for this debate for so long, are doing the Green Party a great favour by pressing its senior partner in coalition on this matter. We want to see a change in the Order of Business to discuss the Bill. It is not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...That appears to be quite significant slippage, particularly as COP26 will have started on 31 October. It is a real concern given that these are measures which have had to be in preparation for a long time. We all are well aware of that and of the section 6A timeline for the carbon budget, which was for the period commencing last January. We know, therefore, that this is something that...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...for. The commission may act under section 15, where procedures for it are set out. It states: "The Commission may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership", but for how long can a vacancy persist? For how long does section 15(7) operate to have a commission capable of continuing to function? Presumably, if somebody was to resign immediately after being appointed,...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I should have noted that the Government's long-standing policy has been to abolish the Court of Criminal Appeal. Legislation introduced in 1995 envisaged the subsumption of the Court of Criminal Appeal into the Supreme Court but it has not yet been commenced. I do not clearly understand why the Attorney General has taken the view outlined by the Minister. I will withdraw my amendment in...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...and implementation of gender pay gap laws. As I said on Committee Stage, we know employers, trade unions and workers across the country are well aware this legislation is coming and is long overdue. They have been making preparations on this for quite some time and a trade union representative told me last week that many companies had almost given up on it. They had plans in place for...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the good news that the Cabinet has today given approval to a pension settlement for former Waterford Crystal workers. It is very positive after a long battle for the former workers in Waterford Crystal. I have a particular family interest in it, but the Unite trade union and Deputy Ciara Conway in Waterford, in particular, have been working very hard with the Minister for Social...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: First, I thank the Minister for his kind words. Certainly, it has been a long road. I was just calculating that it was 34 years ago that I and a group of other students were threatened with prison for giving information on abortion to women in crisis pregnancies. We have come a long way since then but I certainly never thought at the time that it would take so long. Five years on from...

Seanad: Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009: Report Stage (3 Jun 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the passing of the Bill which is long overdue. This is an area in which the interests of consumers have been unprotected for too long and, as the Minister said, the sector has been largely unregulated until now. We, therefore, welcome the Bill and its companion measure, the Multi-Unit Developments Bill which will improve the situation of apartment owners and residents. However,...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...has not been made in isolation. Many others have called for it, including the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality, on which I was proud to serve as a member during the previous Seanad, along with Senator Conway, under the chairmanship of the Minister of State. In 2013, that committee recommended placing the parole process on a statutory footing. The Department of Justice and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...outside hospitals around the country yesterday. I was glad to join members of the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association in hospitals in my constituency. We are all conscious that there are long-running issues that had driven the medical laboratory scientists to take this action. In some cases, these issues have been ongoing for 20 years or more. I refer, for example, to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...forward a Bill to restrict the use of companies like Airbnb for short-term lets. We are asking the Government to take more urgent action to ensure such short-term lets will not outstrip the supply of long-term lets. Research and analysis by my colleague Senator Rebecca Moynihan has shown that, at a given time in March in nearly every county in Ireland, there were more properties...

Seanad: Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...was given to consolidating the Prevention of Corruption Acts in this legislation which, clearly, we welcome, as we did in the Dáil when it was introduced two years ago. Therefore, it has had a long genesis and passage through that House. I do not why its passage has taken so long because there was no opposition to it and certainly there were no substantive amendments tabled either by us...