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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: -----highly engaged and involved.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: They do not exist.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Act 1994: Motion (14 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, to the House. It is my first opportunity to welcome him to the Chamber, and I congratulate him on his appointment. I support the motion, which, as the Minister said, is to enable the reduction of the sum prescribed in section 38 of the 1994 Act, under which cash suspected of being proceeds of crime may be seized by gardaí or Revenue...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and congratulate him on his appointment. I commend Senator McDowell for bringing forward this important legislation. Indeed, I thank the Leader and the Government party for giving Government time to this legislation. This is an indication of the new politics we saw in evidence in this House last week when we had Committee Stage of our Private...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I also call on the Leader to facilitate a debate with the Minister for Education and Skills in the House on the Cassells report. Like other speakers, I believe it is a very urgent and important issue, and one which we should debate in the House, in particular because six Senators represent university constituencies. Unlike Senator O'Donnell, I think the report was helpful. It was not very...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:“(8) Where property is seized and detained under subsection (1) or (2), an application to the Court for an interim order or an interlocutory order in respect of the property shall be made by the bureau officer concerned as soon as he or she has enough evidence to make such an application.”. I...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am grateful to his officials for engaging with me on this issue and indicating they would engage with the CAB on this amendment. The Minister of State said they had done so. We support the Bill absolutely. On Second Stage we all expressed our strong condemnation of the dreadful events of recent weeks and months, the shootings and the extent...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: It is property on premises that is in question.

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: To put the record straight, we simply want to make the legislation as robust as possible. We are approaching this in a constructive manner so, of course, I put the amendment down in good faith. Undoubtedly, there are already people who, under existing legislation, are caught up in the sort of applications we are talking about. Clearly, there is at present a right of recourse to the court,...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: A number of us spoke on Second Stage in favour of the principle of the amendments that have been ruled out of order, that being, the funds raised should be ring-fenced for the disadvantaged communities that have suffered the most from the sorts of organised crime that we are discussing. This is in keeping with the broader issue, namely, that criminal justice measures are not enough on their...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 11:In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“Certain payments not to be proceeds of crime 7.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 15:“Certain payments not to be proceeds of crime 15A.(1) Subsection (2) applies if by any enactment to be passed it is provided that a person who pays or gives...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State. In the circumstances, I will withdraw the amendment. I am conscious that this issue has been raised previously. It is certainly one we want to keep under review, pending the consideration by the Dáil of the reform in the sexual offences Bill.

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State, the Tánaiste and the officials for engaging with us, particularly with those of us who expressed issues we had with the Bill on Second Stage and who tabled amendments. I appreciate that engagement and look forward to working with everyone on the wider review. I express again the condemnation I think we have all expressed in this House of the consequences...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: It is Labour Party Private Members' time later, for which I thank the Leader. We are taking Committee Stage of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016, which passed Second Stage last January. I thank colleagues on both sides of the House for expressing support to me for the principle underpinning the Bill and for supporting the passage of the Bill on Committee Stage. It seeks to amend...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: The Leas-Chathaoirleach is correct and I apologise. However, where somebody of the stature of the chairman designate is forced to step down because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have caved into the bully-boy tactics of Deputy Paul Murphy and the AAA-PBP-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: -----that smacks of crude populism.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I doubt whether anyone will be willing to take on this poisoned chalice.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to debate this Private Members' Bill, which the Labour Party group of Senators introduced on Second Stage on 20 January of this year. On that date, it was not opposed on Second Stage by the then Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton. We have now brought the Bill back on Committee Stage and it is...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will make a few points in response before we move to section 2. I welcome the broad support for the Bill expressed so far by colleagues and I thank them all for their kind comments. I should say in response to Senator Craughwell I do not want to take the credit for drafting the Bill. It was the product of a number of people, and I mentioned Deputy Stagg, who first published it in 2012....

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I will speak briefly about section 2, given that we have addressed the main purpose and context of the Bill. I wish to consider briefly the provisions included in section 2 which constitute, as I said, the substance of the Bill which seeks to create an exemption from the provisions of the Competition Act 2002. If colleagues have the Bill before them, they will see that we start in...