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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: My Labour Party colleagues and I had tabled two amendments to section 46. We withdrew amendment No. 93, which related to the issue of seeking to ensure an adequate gender balance on the Judiciary. We called a vote on amendment No. 92, which sought to insert the phrase "in the order of the Commission's preference". Not only would regard be had to the objective that membership of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to facilitate a debate in the House after Easter on the best means of tackling sexual harassment issues, particularly sexual harassment in the workplace. I raise this because, as all Members will be aware having been emailed about it, a survey initiated by the women's caucus is being carried out to discover the extent to which harassment is an issue in the Houses of the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Scaoileadh ar Phósadh) 2016: An Dara Céim - Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Dissolution of Marriage) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I believe that my colleague and friend, Senator Norris, called a quorum in order to ensure that there was a sufficient number of Senators present for this important Bill. I am grateful to him for doing so because it enabled me to get here in time for the start of the debate. On behalf of the Labour Party, I am delighted to welcome this important Bill...

Seanad: An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Scaoileadh ar Phósadh) 2016: An Dara Céim - Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Dissolution of Marriage) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I saw the Minister's comment on the record in the Dáil. I believe he is correct.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 92:In page 31, line 27, after “appointment” to insert “, in the order of the Commission’s preference,”.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Senator McDowell's amendment is a sensible one and it addresses some of the issues in section 46. All Members would bow to Senator Norris's expertise in grammar, but even before he spoke, the grammar of section 46 had been bothering me. We have already voted on Senator McDowell's amendment No. 91h, which would have deleted the word "firstly" which, grammatically, is not used correctly in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Inserting the word "to" would make the section more coherent. Amendment No. 92 tabled by the Labour Party on which Members have just voted would have dealt with a serious substantive issue with section 46, namely, that it does not currently require any ranking by the commission. As the Minister is well aware, the issue of ranking in the order of the commission's preference has been pointed...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: The critiques that have been made during the course of this debate in respect of the wording of section 46 illustrate a point I made earlier in the debate about the unwieldy nature of the processes and procedures provided for under what should be a reforming Bill. Given the Bill purports to reform and streamline processes for judicial appointment, it is unfortunate that instead of providing...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: It does. I must say it also lacks the comma and the word “to”, which is what I think Senator Norris was going to say. Again, it is illustrative of the difficulties generally with the Bill that it is not, in fact, clarifying or more transparent. Instead, it is creating this unwieldy set of processes that are hard to follow. It is hard to follow the consistency or coherence of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Colombia: Mr. Eamon Gilmore (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Mr. Gilmore is very welcome. I thank him for the worthwhile and valuable presentation. It is good to hear the update and presented in such a concise manner. I congratulate him also on his recent appointment, which I was delighted to see, and on the most important work he has done within Colombia on the peace process on behalf of the EU. We are all conscious that this is a highly complex...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Colombia: Mr. Eamon Gilmore (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Is the answer then to move towards a different policy in the market countries such as the US, in Europe and Ireland, where there is a market for cocaine? I accept it is probably beyond Mr. Gilmore’s brief, but does the answer lie in a change in policy, as we have seen in other countries on cannabis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Colombia: Mr. Eamon Gilmore (4 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: The Committee on Justice and Equality, of which I was a member, looked at it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I am pleased to see the Judicial Council Bill back before this House on Committee Stage today. I note that it is more than 16 months since we took the Bill on Second Stage on 22 November 2017. It is unfortunate that we have seen such a long delay at a time when there has been such unseemly haste to rush the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill through. I am also disappointed that we saw...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris is right, it was two votes. No one can say it would not have made a difference. No one can say that if people had been there to represent voices from Northern Ireland that are not being heard at Westminster at present, it might not have made all the difference to those in the Labour Party, my own sister party, who are shamefully failing to achieve a compromise to stop a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: This is too serious for cheap shots.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: Too few.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to hear that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I did not disagree. I said there were not enough of them.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Committee Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I also welcome the Minister to the House and I welcome the opportunity to debate this important Bill on Committee Stage. I know it has been over 16 months since the Bill was before us on Second Stage and on that occasion I welcomed it as a long overdue Bill and a very welcome Bill. In the context of this first group of amendments, I would also like to welcome the principle which they are...