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Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and her officials back to the House. I thank her for introducing this Bill in the Seanad. It is good to see a justice Bill being introduced in this House. This is one of the shortest justice Bill with which we have had to deal. As the Minister said, it is simple and straightforward legislation to allow for an expansion in the number of judges to be appointed at High...

Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Next Friday.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome this opportunity to resume our debate on the Bill and to discuss Committee Stage amendments. I hope it will be possible to consider including more references in the text to the best interests of the child as a primary consideration. I am conscious that this is provided for in a number of sections. It is clearly set out in section 24 dealing...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, which amendments is Senator Ó Clochartaigh speaking to? We have all spoken about the larger issues.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I support Senator Daly's call for a debate on the regularisation of the undocumented Irish in the United States. I know he has worked on this issue for a long time and I absolutely agree that it is a pressing matter for many families. There are two related topics that this House may have a chance to debate in the new year. The first concerns stateless persons. I raised this last night in...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: No. They are not being guillotined.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Leave it as it is then.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: All of the groups welcomed the introduction of a single unified procedure.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Is the Leader trying to tell us something?

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and commend him on his great and well-documented commitment to the reform of the direct provision system, which I think is accepted by everyone. When we all spoke about this on Second Stage last night, I was one of the many Senators who highlighted the need to reform the direct provision procedure and deal with the implementation of all the...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: No.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: We have spoken about the report.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: These amendments are mostly very much technical in terms of replacing references to authorised officer with international protection officer, which seems sensible, but the Leader, Senator Maurice Cummins, and I have raised as an issue the practice of so many technical amendments being inserted on Committee Stage to a Bill published a week previously. It is unfortunate we must do so and that...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I propose that we leave amendment No. 231 until we reach it, in accordance with the list we all received.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: As the Minister of State said, amendment No. 230 must be passed first because it provides for the new section 73 on international protection officers. Amendment No. 3 relates to that, but it was listed first.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Amendments Nos. 141 to 143, inclusive, are to insert new texts at the end of the existing section 35 on page 39 of the Bill.

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise a point a number of us raised on Second Stage, namely, children's rights under the Bill and to ensure that the rights of children, particularly children who come into Ireland as unaccompanied minors, are adequately protected. I was very heartened to hear the Minister speak about this last night in her speech and in her response where she pointed out how much the practice has...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I do not want to labour the point, but section 35 should not be read in isolation. Clearly, it must be read in the context of the other relevant provisions. Section 34 applies to the personal interview and section 34(7) refers to an applicant who has not attained the age of 18. Section 14 refers to unaccompanied minors seeking international protection. In section 14(2) it is very...