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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and support the amendment tabled by my Labour Party colleague, Senator Moynihan. It essentially is providing for an extra layer of Oireachtas scrutiny over measures adopted and the regulations proposed to be made under the Act. As Senator Boyhan has said, I also commend the Bills Office on turning this around so quickly. We all appreciate the...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I speak in support of Senator Moynihan and our Labour Party amendment. As the Senator said, the amendment goes to the heart of this Bill and the conception of how we provide affordable housing. Senator Moynihan has very eloquently, over some period, spoken about the need to link the conception of affordability with income rather than with market value. For us, this goes beyond just a...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator Moynihan, I speak in support of the Labour Party amendment, along with the other amendments in this group. Our amendment goes to the heart of the Bill. We are all clear on the importance of the issues we are debating today and it is very disappointing to see cheap political point-scoring being engaged in by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I remind Senator Fitzpatrick that I did not interject during her contribution. As Senator Moynihan said, people in Fianna Fáil need to take a good, hard look at themselves. The real issue here is what was not done over the four years from 2016 to 2020, when the country was economically prospering and the then Government, in which Fine Gael was propped up by Fianna Fáil, failed to...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, back to the House after what felt like a very short break. I express my support and that of the Labour Party group for Senator Warfield's amendment No. 10. Language is very important in the Bill. I listened with great interest to the debate and to the comments of Senators from the Government parties such as Senator Pauline O'Reilly and...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with my seconder, Senator Sherlock. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy English, to the House and thank him for coming to debate the Bill. I also thank colleagues on all sides of the House who have expressed such strong support for this important Bill. I really appreciate it, and I speak on behalf of Senator Sherlock...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I will respond at the end.

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all who spoke so eloquently in support of the Bill. Everyone was supportive and tonight we saw the Seanad at its best. I thought the speeches were so moving and eloquent. I particularly thank those who shared their personal experiences. Senators Sherlock and Seery Kearney spoke courageously about their own life experiences. We all know people who have been through this. I am...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Next Monday.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sports Facilities (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I have put down this matter to ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on the use of Defence Forces playing fields in the Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W areas by local sports clubs. This relates to an ongoing issue which has been the subject of some correspondence between the Minister and me and has been the subject of a motion before...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sports Facilities (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for the response and for the stated commitment that the Defence Forces will continue to play a role in the community by facilitating sporting organisations and schools to use its facility. I recognise, as does everyone, the enormous contribution of the Defence Forces to the community and should have stated that at the outset. It is very much appreciated that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to have been selected last night as the Labour Party candidate in the Dublin Bay South by-election. I thank all of those who supported me. I look forward to the campaign, although I am conscious that we will be very mindful of public health guidelines as we come through this awful pandemic, which has caused so much heartbreak for so many. I know that issues relating to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: The Oireachtas has voted and passed legislation. Terminations of pregnancy are legally available in Ireland and women need those reproductive health services. I am proud to be one of the people who campaigned for the repeal of the eighth amendment. We all stand in solidarity in the context of the result of the referendum.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: It is bit rich of the Senator to complain, three years on, about the result of the referendum.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am not pro-abortion. I am pro-choice.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Cathaoirleach. This is an issue on which language is important.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: We must remember the thousands of women in Ireland who have had abortions, their families, women who face crisis pregnancies and the awful catastrophic diagnosis that so many women and their families have faced in the context of fatal foetal abnormality. We need to be sensitive in our language. Talking about people as being pro-abortion, as Senator Mullen consistently does, is insensitive...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I sat and listened to Senator Mullen. I sat and listened to his insensitive language and I responded, as is my right. I used my time on the Order of Business to do so.