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Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Again, I am mindful of the separation of powers, the Judiciary setting the penalty and having sentencing power and the Minister not having the capacity to intervene at that point. I do not think the issue here was the sentence but the management of the sentence by the Prison Service. There may well be a matter for the Minister in which case, it would be better dealt with as a Commencement...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund: Motion (24 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I move:That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015,copies of which were laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 28th October, 2015.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: On Tuesday, we all expressed our deep horror and condemnation of the attacks on Paris.We will all have been watching with great interest the developments in Paris since then, the raids in the suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday and the resulting arrests. The debate which people sought on Tuesday, and which I said, as Deputy Leader, I would be happy to try to facilitate, on the greater security...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. Without prolonging things at this point - I am mindful that we have many amendments to get through - I wish to refer to some key issues. Clearly, colleagues believe in the need to make Second Stage speeches at this point. I remind colleagues that we had a full Second Stage on 13 May on the Bill that is before the House now. It was substantially amended...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to make a quick correction to the record. I apologise, as I was looking at the wrong piece of paper regarding the lay membership and the nominators to the LSRA in section 8. I thank the Minister for putting it correctly on the record. In fact, the nominating bodies for lay members include the Citizens Information Board, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the Irish...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcomed the amendment providing for a review earlier because it is important. I think we have strayed into talking about the specific issues on which the authority will have to report to the Minister. Perhaps this relates to section 33 of the Bill. I am aware that Senator Barrett has tabled amendments to that section. All of us agree absolutely with the comments that have been made...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I congratulate those couples who got married yesterday, the first day on which gay couples in Ireland were able to marry. It was a very welcome and historic day and it was great to see celebratory photographs in the newspapers after such grim news from Paris and elsewhere in recent days. I know all colleagues will want to join me in welcoming what happened yesterday. I welcome the new...

Seanad: Tributes to Former Senator Jack Fitzsimons (18 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to join other Senators in paying tribute to the late former Senator Jack Fitzsimons, who died last year. I welcome his family to the Gallery. I would like to express sympathies on behalf of all of us here in the House and in particular in my role as leader of the Labour Party group. As others have said, Jack was a Fianna Fáil Member of Seanad Éireann. He was elected...

Seanad: Minute's Silence Following Paris Attacks (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Before I read the Order of Business, we will take a minute's silence in commemoration of the victims of the Paris attacks last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I also welcome our new Member, Senator Máiría Cahill, and her family and daughter, Saorlaith, who are in the Gallery. The Order of Business is No. 1, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012, Committee Stage, to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and to be adjourned no later than 8 p.m., if not previously concluded.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I can.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I join in welcoming the French ambassador. As Deputy Leader, I acknowledge the show of unity being displayed by everybody today in absolutely condemning the horrific attacks on Paris last week. They were appallingly brutal attacks on people enjoying sports and cultural life in a great city that is so well known to all of us. It really represents an attack on all of us on our doorstep in...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I will now turn to the issues raised by colleagues. Senator Darragh O'Brien welcomed Senator Cahill and sought a debate on the Paris attacks. I would be happy to facilitate such a debate with the Minister for Justice and Equality, which he and other Senators sought. Senator Jim D'Arcy raised the same issues and spoke of how the universal becomes local. That is very true. I think all of...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris also raised the issue of media reportage of allegations about a former Minister last week, on which a number of Senators spoke. I absolutely agree with Senator Norris and share his concern about the way in which this story came into the public domain at such an early stage of a Garda investigation and apparently before an investigation is properly commenced. I share Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: If I may be allowed to make that point, clearly, we all await the Bill with great interest. I thank the Senator for informing me about it. Senator Landy welcomed Senator Cahill and mentioned the Paris attacks. He also noted the school programme announced just today and commended the Minister, Deputy Jan O' Sullivan, on her commitment to ending the practice of housing schoolchildren in...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Daly is engaging in the collective amnesia which we have seen very regularly from Fianna Fáil. It is trying to disown all responsibility for NAMA and, indeed, for the economic crash that necessitated its establishment by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I know the Senator is just trying to be helpful.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It would be most helpful if the Senator would just let me speak. I let him speak even though I did not agree with what he said. However, I join Senator Daly in calling for a debate on policing. We would do well to examine constructive ideas on improving the quality of policing. Yesterday, the justice committee had a two and a half hour meeting with the Garda Commissioner, Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Garda Commissioner (11 Nov 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you Chairman. I welcome the Garda Commissioner and her team. I also echo Deputy Finian McGrath's condolences to the family and colleagues of Garda Tony Golden on his appalling murder. In terms of victims and support for victims, I really welcome what the Commissioner has said about the victims of crime being placed at the heart of the work of An Garda Síochána. The...