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Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to debate this important Bill. I am grateful to all colleagues for supporting the Bill through Second and Committee Stages. This Bill passed Second Stage in the Seanad with full support from all parties on 24 May 2017. It then passed Committee Stage on 25 October 2017. The Bill requires employers to publish...

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for clarifying his intentions on the Government Bill and, as he stated, we are seeking to be constructive. Everybody is in agreement on where we wish to be. We all wish to see pay transparency legislation introduced and to tackle the ongoing gender pay gap. However, it has been nearly a year since the Bill before the House passed Committee Stage. The Minister...

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: There is lots of expertise here and we have had many debates on the issue so it would be appropriate to introduce it here. I welcome our guests in the Gallery. As they will be well aware, it has been estimated that despite changes in gender equality generally and progressive change for women's rights in Ireland over the past 11 years, the gender pay gap has narrowed only four percentage...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome yesterday's launch of the campaign to re-elect President Michael D. Higgins to the Áras. He has served an exemplary term of office of seven years with enormous respect and support from all over the country. I look forward to working hard on the campaign to secure his re-election. I also welcome the announcement by the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, that he is bringing...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am leader of an inter-party group. That is true.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Second Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will not take my full time as I will speak to only one aspect of the Bill. It relates to the Minister of State's opening comment that the Bill is the result of detailed analysis and examination of the recommendations contained in the copyright review committee's report of 2013, Modernising Copyright. While the Bill is said to take account of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

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) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Section 16 has not been agreed to.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I objected to it.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator Michael McDowell, I do not believe there is any reason to oppose the amendments. There are, however, some inconsistencies later in the language used in different sections.I am looking at section 19, in particular. I will make the point when we come to that section. It is a technical point about a Bill, of which many of us have been highly critical for being internally...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: As I mentioned, there is an issue with the internal inconsistency of the Bill as it came to us from the Dáil. Government amendment No. 57 which we have just passed was a way for the Government to seek to address that inconsistency. I go back to look at the problem with the Bill that is being resolved by amendment No. 57. It is a problem with the way section 10 which concerns the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Michael McDowell may have answered my question. I see the point of section 15(7) which states: "The Commission may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership". I wonder how compatible that is with section 18(2) and the mandatory nature of the clause, particularly where no period is provided for. The commission may act under section 15, where procedures for it are...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I did say earlier that there is inconsistency in the drafting and language of section 19(1)(f) which refers to a member nominated by the Law Society of Ireland. I think the language should be change or amended to the "President of the Law Society of Ireland" to ensure consistency with section 13(2) which deals with the appointment of a practising barrister and a practising solicitor as...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his comments and for his willingness to accept that it might be useful, in the interests of tidiness, to amend section 19(1)(f) to include the president of the Law Society. To take up another point, the Minister said that he does not think the chairperson of the General Council of the Bar of Ireland or the president of the Law Society would nominate without reference...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I do not want to labour the point, but I did not say that there is any uncertainty in the method of appointment. Indeed, I was careful to say that this is just a matter of tidying up and a drafting issue. It is about consistency in language between and within sections. It is important to that extent but I did not suggest that it would cast any uncertainty over the appointment process. In...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Senator McDowell is right that this seems to be an unusual provision, to say the least. To state the obvious, it recalls the debate we just had about section 13 when the Minister pointed out that the chairperson of the Bar Council and the president of the Law Society would have to nominate persons to the commission in accordance with its own internal rules and procedures. It is unnecessary...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

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