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

Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully to the Minister of State's point about the out-of-hours service. It points to an issue at the heart of the difficulty with our law on domestic violence, which is that it operates at the intersection of criminal and civil law. Having practised criminal law, I am familiar with the on-call judge system which operates for criminal cases but, as we discussed on the last...

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

Ivana Bacik: I will withdraw it, but I reserve the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

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

Ivana Bacik: The amendments in this group seek to achieve the same aim, which is to allow emergency barring orders to have a somewhat increased length. Amendment No. 23 in my name would extend the length of time that an emergency barring order could last from eight working days, which is less than two weeks, to 20 working days, which is effectively four weeks. We view this as a reasonable extension that...

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

Ivana Bacik: I have listened to all of the Minister's points and I am looking very carefully at section 8. Clearly it is very welcome to see this provision in place. I see that section 8, subsection (16) specifically states that no further emergency barring orders shall be made against the respondent on behalf of the same applicant until a month has elapsed after the last day of the period of eight...

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 23:In page 16, line 37, to delete “8 working” and substitute “20 working”. I reserve the right to move this amendment on Report Stage.

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

Ivana Bacik: I take the point of the Minister of State and support Senator Norris. As I said, there is a concern that prosecutions for breaches of barring orders and so on often involve people who stack up convictions for such an offence, yet because none is a serious offence they cannot be denied bail if charged with a further offence on the basis that they may commit a serious offence. There is a...

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

Ivana Bacik: I wish to add my congratulations to the Minister of State. I thank him and his officials for engaging constructively with us and on bringing forward this ground-breaking new offence of control. I commend Senator Kelleher on all her work as well. The result is great to see. I have no wish to get up again on amendment No. 47b, but I note that it takes account of many of the arguments we...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (23 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I am pleased the Minister of State is present to deal with this question, given his long-standing commitment to the issue of prostitution law reform. It was a pleasure to work with him on the justice committee on the important reform we introduced in 2017 to change our focus as regards prostitution and to criminalise or the purchaser. The question I am asking relates to the previous law. I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (23 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for the information he has provided and for the tables of data which I will go through with great interest. I also thank him for his kind comments. I note, as the Minister of State said, this is an ongoing issue and I thank him in particular for speaking in a little more detail about the requirement in the 2017 Act for a report after a three year period on the...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House, and I welcome this important and long-overdue Bill. Like others, I express my support and that of the Labour Party group for the Bill. I look forward to teasing out the proposals in it on Second Stage, and also on Committee and Report Stages. As we know, the Bill will introduce for the first time a formalised system for the public to make complaints...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I shall now turn to the issue of the sanctions and the refusals. With regard to the reprimand or admonishment, for clarification the reprimand is something that happens at an earlier stage and an admonishment is at the conclusion of an investigation. Section 58 covers where there is failure or refusal by a judge to co-operate and the panel of inquiry makes a report to the judicial conduct...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: There is provision that hearings may be held in private, or otherwise than in public, where it would be appropriate in the circumstances. That would be an appropriate amendment and I thank the Minister for his time.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I join other Senators in asking the Leader to call the Tánaiste to the House so Senators can debate with her the issues around the serious matters that have come to light in respect of what she knew or did not know when she was the Minister for Justice and Equality about the campaign to smear the Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. The efforts of the Labour Party's Deputy Alan Kelly in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I am elevating him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Professor Walsh is very welcome. It is good to have him here. I thank him for the very interesting presentation. He will be responding to Deputy Crowe's comment. I did not understand the professor to say what Deputy Crowe implied about humanitarian aid. He may clarify that. I was very glad to hear Professor Walsh's comments about Mr. David Donoghue, who was before this committee on 19...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Precisely

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I join Senator Catherine Ardagh in expressing sympathy to the survivors and families of those killed so tragically in the earthquake in Iran. I understand more than 400 people were killed and about 7,000 injured. It was an horrific earthquake. I also join Senator Victor Boyhan in expressing sympathy to the family of the late Kevin Dawson who was a pioneering...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: It was reported to me. I did not listen directly.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I was glad to see some positive signs of something which was often, rightly, disparaged, namely, new politics. Gender equality in the workplace goes beyond equal pay. In recent weeks there has been momentum on issues to do with sexual harassment in the workplace. I commend Grace Dyas, a brave young woman, for coming forward to highlight issues to do with sexual harassment in Irish theatre,...