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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Ivana Bacik: It is good to be facing back into the resumption of legislative business in as near to normal a setting as we can. I am delighted to speak as the leader of the Labour group and to welcome our four other members, all new Senators - Annie Hoey, Rebecca Moynihan, Marie Sherlock and Mark Wall. We are a group that is 80% women, four out of five, so I am delighted about that. This is a Seanad...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I am proud to speak on behalf of the Labour Party group of Senators, my colleagues Senators Sherlock, Hoey, Moynihan and Wall, and to express our congratulations to you, Senator Daly, on your election as Cathaoirleach. I have served with you in a number of Seanad terms and while we have not always agreed on issues I know very well your tenacious persistence in campaigns that are close to...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (29 Jun 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and join others in congratulating her on her recent appointment and on her great work in her previous role. I am glad to see four great women nominated as Ministers but I am sorry there are not more women in Cabinet. In this incoming Seanad, 40% of Senators are women and that is a notable high, which I am glad to see. Many of us will keep pressing for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Mar 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to join with the Cathaoirleach in extending sympathies to Senator Ruane on her loss. I am very sorry to hear that at such a difficult time. On behalf of Labour Party Senators, I would like to express condolences to the families of the ten people whose deaths were so sadly announced last night, to the 19 families who had been bereaved so far in this jurisdiction and the 29 on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2020)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Seanad technical group, I join all others in expressing sincere sympathies to all those who have been so terribly affected by this awful virus. I look forward to the debate on the emergency legislation, which we in Labour will be pleased to support and engage on constructively.

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (20 Mar 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to welcome the Minister, Deputy Harris, to the House. Along with so many others, I express my sincere sympathies to those who have been so terribly affected by this horrific virus, and in particular to the families of the three people in this jurisdiction and the four people on this island who have sadly died, to the 557 individuals in this jurisdiction and the 634 individuals...

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Mar 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious that under sections 6 to 8, inclusive, the Minister is given extensive powers to make regulations. In this context I seek clarification on a point raised by me and other Members on Second Stage, which is about the employers' top-up amount. It is a real matter of urgency whether or not employers who pay full wages to people, when those staff are hopefully being temporarily...

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Mar 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I raised on Second Stage the concern that we need to see adequate safeguards in place for the exercise of the detention powers under section 11. I am conscious that one particular safeguard would be to provide for right of information about the right to be able to trigger a review on request. I felt that this could be done through regulation rather than by amending section 11 of the Bill....

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to speak--

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Ivana Bacik: We do indeed. Go raibh maith agat, Cathaoirleach. I am delighted to speak on behalf of the Seanad Technical Group as the group leader on behalf of myself, Senator David Norris, and my Labour Party colleagues, Senators Kevin Humphreys, Gerald Nash and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. I wish them the very best of luck in the general election, along with other Senators who are running,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I know that yesterday in this House and the other House, tributes were paid to Cormac Ó Braonáin who died so tragically at the weekend at the age of 19. He was national chairperson of Labour Youth. I add my voice to those as a friend and comrade of Cormac. I express sympathies to his parents, Lú and Eva, his sister Muireann, and his family and friends.I had the great...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 9: In page 47, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “53. Section 7 of the Act of 2007 is amended in subsection (1)— (a) by the insertion of “and pharmaceutical assistants” after “pharmacists” in paragraph (d), and (b) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (e): “(e) to— ...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I am pleased about that and grateful to many of my colleagues for supporting this amendment. Senator Devine and others have been very supportive. I will give some brief background to the amendment. My own interest in this area is due to my mother, Rina Bacik-----

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: -----who is a registered pharmaceutical assistant, although she is now retired. There has been as much lobbying on this in my family as anywhere else and I am very aware of how long this has been a live issue which is of real concern to so many registered pharmaceutical assistants, of whom there is now only a contained grouping. The Minister is well are of this. Amendment No. 9 would...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Second Stage (17 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister. On behalf of the Labour Senators, I support this important Bill, which will put into effect the EU-required framework decision on the organisation, content and exchange of information and Council Decision 2009/316/JHA. If one considers the parliamentary history of this Bill, it should have been before us much sooner. The Minister and others have raised the issue of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I echo other colleagues in commending Senator Ian Marshall on the screening of "Lost Lives" last night. I was very sorry I could not get to it myself but I have heard how powerful it was. I am impressed that the Tánaiste was there throughout, which is worthy of note. I commend all those involved. Yesterday, Senators Norris and Gavan spoke very eloquently about the British general...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: It is a shame to use the guillotine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I second it.