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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to add my voice to others in expressing concern at the failure to achieve a successful outcome at the Brexit negotiations yesterday. Anyone watching the events yesterday would have been dismayed to see what appeared to be an agreement on wording collapse with the symbolic approach of the British Government and the walking away of the DUP, which betrayed the very tenuous basis of...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Very heartening.

Seanad: Vacancy in Seanad Membership: Motion (5 Dec 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I move:That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the resignation of Senator Denis Landy, a member elected from the Nominating Bodies Sub-Panel of the Agricultural Panel at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2016.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I join colleagues in paying tribute to our good friend and long-standing colleague, Senator Norris. I was going to say that it feels not so much like tributes as it does a sort of canonisation of Senator Norris. However, it is well deserved after 30 years and seven months, as the Cathaoirleach has said, of-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator, I will take that. Yes, if there is a sort of secular canonisation, then that is what is going on here today, but it is well deserved. The Senator has indeed been inspirational, as others have said. It has been a real pleasure for me personally to have served alongside him for the past ten years as Senators on the Dublin University panel, and I cannot believe it has...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I have no objection.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Hear hear.

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the House. I strongly welcome the passage of the Domestic Violence Bill with great haste through this House. Like Senator Kelleher I pay tribute to the immense work so many individuals and organisations have done to improve and strengthen this long awaited and very important Bill. I thank in particular groups such as SAFE Ireland, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the speakers. They are very welcome to the committee. It has been a very important session. While it has not been good to hear what the witnesses have said, because it is very bleak, it is important to hear it and to have it on the record. The committee is glad the witnesses are here with us today. I was glad to attend the Sadaka conference on Tuesday and to engage on the...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: We do not need a copy of it if it is read out in the House.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the representatives from Stop Climate Chaos and Trócaire in the Public Gallery and thank them for their briefing materials, which have been very helpful. I am very glad of the opportunity to have this debate. Of course, it is a requirement under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Former Senator Sean Barrett was...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party Senators I would like to pay tribute to our colleague Denis Landy, who has tendered his resignation today due to ill-health. We in the Labour group were all very sorry to hear of this resignation. I want to pay tribute to him, and to thank you, a Chathaoirligh, and all our colleagues from the other groups, who have spoken so warmly and kindly about Denis's time...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome all those in the Gallery from SAFE Ireland, Women's Aid and other organisations which have been of great help to us in the interim. Much has happened since 4 July when the House last debated Committee Stage. I am delighted that discussion on this Stage of this important Bill has resumed. All of us want its passage through the Houses expedited. I do not propose to spend a long...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I should have welcomed the Minister of State to the House. He is very welcome back. I thank him and his officials for the engagement we have had on these issues since the last time the matter was discussed here. I think we all very much welcome the two new Government amendments, namely, amendments Nos. 47a and 47b. We recognise that they go a long way to meeting many of the concerns we...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: That is extremely helpful and I thank the Minister of State on behalf of all my colleagues. We appreciate his engagement, particularly as it is on the floor of the House, which is most unusual and we really welcome it. I am certainly willing to accept the Minister of State's assurance and his support for amendment No. 6. I am happy to work with the Minister of State and his officials on...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 6:In page 8, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Factors to be considered by court in certain applications under this Part 5. (1) Where a court is deciding, on an application for an order under sections 6 to 10, whether there are reasonable grounds for believing that the safety or welfare of an applicant or a dependent person requires that an order...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I support the Minister's amendments in this group, which are hugely important in strengthening the language and changing the practice in court in terms of requiring the making of orders rather than leaving it to the discretion of the court. I wonder if there is any way of drafting amendment No. 36 to meet the concerns the Minister raised about tying the court's hands in procedural matters....

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: These amendments are straightforward. They all address separate elements of the issue of urgent messages regarding children and they all seek to do the same thing. The Labour Party amendment is amendment No. 54 and it proposes what is sought in the other amendments but in a simpler and more straightforward way.

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I think that can be done.

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 19:In page 16, to delete lines 18 to 20 and substitute the following:“(11) An application for an emergency barring order—(a) may be made ex parte where, having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, the court considers it necessary or expedient to do so in the interests of justice, and (b) may, where the court is of the opinion that the...