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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Nothing About Us Without Us - Achieving Equal Rights and Equity for Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome all our witnesses and wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. I know we all welcome the opportunity to have a public hearing from such a great array of witnesses. It is nice for us this week to have all the witnesses before us be women. Most of us in the Chamber are women and this committee has a majority of women members but as others have said, unfortunately, that is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gender Equality (8 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and I wish him a happy International Women's Day. On this day, the Labour Party Senators have asked the Minister to give us a proposed timeline for the introduction of gender pay gap legislation. We are all only too well aware of how urgent this is.Every year, 9 November marks Equal Pay Day, which recognises that Ireland’s gender pay gap of 14.4%...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gender Equality (8 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for setting out so clearly the proposed timeframe. I am glad to hear that he proposes to bring legislative amendments to the existing Government Bill from 2019 and that he plans to do so in the next fortnight. We will work constructively with the Minister to ensure the legislation is swiftly enacted and that, as the Minister said, it languishes no more. In particular,...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and thank him for attending this morning to deal with the Labour Party's Commencement matter on the gender pay gap. I wish colleagues a happy International Women's Day. Today has a long and proud history. We started International Women's Day as a day of protest, struggle and socialist and feminist campaigning for women's rights. It was only in 1977 that the United...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Gabhaim buíochas, a Chathaoirligh, agus ba mhaith liom freisin a bheith in ann níos mó Gaeilge a labhairt sa díospóireacht le linn na seachtaine atá ann, Seachtain na Gaeilge, ach I will try to improve, which is the mantra for today. Gabhaim buíochas, a Chathaoirligh, for reminding us that it is Seachtain na Gaeilge. I propose an amendment to the Order of...

Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for improved information and tracing for adopted persons in relation to their adoption, for that purpose to amend the Adoption Act 2010 so as to provide for access by adult adopted persons to the index maintained by an tArd-Chláraitheoir of connections between entries in the Adopted Children Register and the...

Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Next Friday.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (5 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (5 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I am glad to second the Senator's proposed amendment and echo his comments about the need for coherence in drafting and making legislation, particularly criminal legislation, accessible. I know that is the spirit in which he brings this amendment.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to the House. On behalf of the Labour Party I voice my support for the Bill, although we do not believe it goes far enough. Others have pointed out that we are in an emergency, and indeed we are debating this Bill in emergency time. I am glad the time has been extended somewhat. To take all Stages of such a far-reaching Bill in one day shows just...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete line 2 and substitute the following: “ ‘designated state’— (a) on the coming into operation of this Act, means any country, territory, region or other place outside the State other than Northern Ireland, (b) if at any time after passing a resolution under section 9(5)of the Health (Amendment) Act...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I will use a sledgehammer if necessary. Covid is much more than-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I was not going to come back in but I take issue with colleagues in government who have suggested our Labour Party amendment is a sledgehammer to crack a nut.Covid-19 is very far from being the latter. It was unfortunate language and I am sure it was not intended. Unfortunately, this is an emergency and we are all well aware of it. We all know how many people have died so tragically after...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is personalising the debate-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I do not wish to prolong the debate, although I am going to call a vote on this amendment. I just want to state we should not personalise the debate and I have resisted doing so. We should be courteous and respectful.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious of time and do not want to prolong the debate. I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive response on our amendment No. 1 and this group of amendments. I fundamentally disagree with his analysis of what it would take to implement a more aggressive suppression strategy, in particular his analysis of how long it would take. However, there is clearly a disagreement. I...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. On behalf of the Labour Party, I again welcome this important Bill. I am glad that we are seeing it move swiftly through the Houses and that we are all on the same page with it. However, I support Senator McDowell's proposal to present the amendments in a way that is more coherent. I spoke on Second Stage about the piecemeal way in which,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak and ask questions of the Minister of State. Other members covered a number of the issues raised with us in emails by parents of children with additional needs. They have expressed to us their immense frustration and told us of the terrible impact the prolonged school closures have had on their children and the regression they have seen. They are...

Seanad: Ábhair Ghnó an tSeanaid – Matters on the Business of the Seanad (22 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I join other Members in expressing my solidarity and great concern for the many staff of Ulster Bank who are facing such devastating news about the job losses resulting from the closure. I urge the Government to do all it can to ensure jobs may be saved in the sector. I wish also to ask the Leader to raise some matters with the Cabinet sub-committee on Covid. As Deputy Alan Kelly said at...