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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.

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

Ivana Bacik: I am not in breach of anything today. I sat and listened.

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

Ivana Bacik: I sat and listened to you.

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

Ivana Bacik: This morning, I sat through Commencement Matters when the Senator consistently interrupted and barracked a Minister. This is his own pattern of behaviour in the House.

Seanad: Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (17 May 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for coming in today to take this important debate. It is one which I and many other colleagues called for last week but, very sadly, the conflict has escalated since then and, appallingly, we have seen even more killings of civilians, particularly of children, in the intervening period. It is even more important, therefore, that we speak...