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Seanad: Cultural Institutions: Motion (13 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: At 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Will the Leader arrange a debate on maternity services in the coming weeks in light of the reports on the tragic deaths of babies in the Midlands Regional Hospital. I am sure all colleagues will join with me in commending those parents who have fought so bravely since the deaths of their babies to ensure that matters came to light and in offering sympathies to them. Clearly, the reports of...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on crime prevention with a specific focus on the crime of burglary. Other colleagues have talked about this previously. There have been some reports of an increase in the incidence of burglary in recent months and years even while, generally, crime rates are decreasing in a range of categories. At the justice committee yesterday we had a briefing from...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Not true.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I also commend the Leader on organising the debate last night in the House on Seanad reform. It was an excellent debate and one in which so many people wanted to participate resulting in us having to extend the time by 15 or 20 minutes. What came out of the debate was a desire to look into and scrutinise in more detail the legislation that Dr. Manning, Mr. Joe O'Toole, Mr. Pat Magner and...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: They are just publishing it.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I agree that we should have a debate on the need for regulation of language schools and the protection of the international students attending those schools in Dublin and throughout the country, but the closure of a number of these schools in recent months appears to be a particular concern. It would be good to have the Minister for Education and Science in the House to discuss what can be...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: If anyone heard that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I also listened to Fr. McVerry at lunch time but if I could make my point, the Minister, Deputy Kelly, was very clear that this was part of a much bigger social housing strategy the Government is pursuing which will enable the availability of 35,000 units by 2020. It is a much bigger picture when one looks at the other ways in which housing units will be made available, including, as the...

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the former Senators Dr. Maurice Manning and Mr. Joe O'Toole, as well as former Senator Pat Magner, and commend them for producing this excellent report. My colleagues and I have sought an opportunity to debate it and issues arising from it. I am delighted to learn that a Bill is ready today. As the Leader, Senator Maurice Cummins, has pointed out, we will have an opportunity to...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I would not invite Senator Daly to sing a song.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator said it. We do not want to see the Seanad cleared for any reason. I commend the members of the banking inquiry. Like everybody else, I am looking forward to the question and answer session with Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet this afternoon. I am delighted, as we all should be, that the members of the banking inquiry will get an opportunity to question Mr. Trichet on his role in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I would agree with Senator Norris but there is going to be a great deal of restoration and maintenance work. As he knows, 14 Henrietta Street is important because it has been untouched for so long that it is in a perfect condition to represent life as it was lived 100 years ago.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am told it has not received a lick of paint in 100 years. To see it restored in a sensitive manner as a museum of tenement life would be really welcome. Given the huge public response to the Road to the Rising events on Easter Monday, about which I have spoken previously, there is enormous interest in the cultural aspects of the last century and the way in which people lived their...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: They are a landmark and are iconic of the Dublin cityscape. It is welcome to see the ESB announcing it will restore them and start to maintain them properly.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday many of us offered condolences to the families of the many thousands of people killed in the Nepali earthquake and to the injured. There are reports in today's newspapers that there are still a number of Irish citizens unaccounted for. Everyone will join me in supporting the efforts of the Irish consular service abroad in seeking to ensure the citizens' safety. There is good news...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator O'Brien and others in expressing our condolences regarding the tragedy in Nepal. We all watched with horror as the death toll rose to above 4,000 people. I welcome the announcement by the Minister, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, that Ireland will pledge €1 million in aid to the people of Nepal. We all watched the spring...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Senator O'Brien and his colleagues are clutching at straws when they seek to trivialise this. When the Government took office just over four years ago, it was unthinkable that we would see this level of fiscal space, as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, has put it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Ivana Bacik: He and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, have today announced a fiscal space of between €1.2 and €1.5 billion for the 2016 budget, which will take place in October 2015. The Ministers have made it clear that these resources will be allocated on an equal basis between additional spending and reducing the tax burden on low and middle-income earners. The enormous...