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Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It will be difficult to follow that. I hoped that I would not speak after Senator Zappone. It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome the Minister to the House as a Minister who has led so strongly on this issue and on the process that has led us to this stage. It gives me enormous pleasure to lead for the Labour Party on Second Stage of the Marriage Bill 2015, a Bill made possible, as we...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: They played an enormous role in this. As others have done, I welcome Ann Louise Gilligan to the Gallery. It was a proud moment for me in the High Court on her behalf, along with my good friend and colleague, Senator Zappone, all those years ago, battling for the recognition of the right to marry. At the time, we thought it would come sooner. It has been a long process but it was a...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: At the time I think we said it would be open to gay and straight couples. We were not bound by the same constraints by which the Minister was bound in terms of advice from the Attorney General, but it has been a long process. I welcome to the Visitors Gallery members of the Labour Party, Labour LGBT, Labour Youth and Labour Women who campaigned so strongly on this issue. It is fair to say...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am sorry. I will finish on this point. I hope we will have many more moments of pure joy felt in families and communities all around Ireland as we proceed to commence this important Bill.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: On Thursday, 22 October 2015.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Submissions on Drugs Review: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: My apologies, Chairman, I was caught at another meeting. I thank all the speakers and groups who have contributed. It is refreshing and important for us to hear their varied and wide experience and expertise in the area and to hear so many contributions. I realise it is not universal and that there is a divergence of views, but many have spoken of the merits of moving to a health-based...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Submissions on Drugs Review: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Irish Hospital Consultants Association and Ms Quigley, or anyone else who has knowledge of the Portuguese model.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I find so much of Senator Leyden's contribution disagreeable that I do not even know where to begin. I will leave it to the Leader to respond. It was dreadful to see the opposition to the site provided by the local authority - on behalf of the State - to the families who were horrifically bereaved at the weekend in Carrickmines. It was despicable to see people obstructing the provision of...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Gerald Nash, to the House in the place of the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly. I welcome today's introduction of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill to the Seanad on Second Stage. I acknowledge the presence in the Visitors' Gallery of Mr. Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth. I acknowledge the enormous role Friends of the Earth has...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It was in 2007.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, it was.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I would like, on behalf of the Labour Party group, to join the Leader and Senator Darragh O'Brien in expressing sincere sympathy to the families of those bereaved so tragically at the weekend in the two incidents which people have already described. First, to the ten victims of the appalling fire in Carrickmines in south Dublin, including five children, and others who were injured and,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re arrangements for the sitting of the House next Tuesday, 13 October, to be taken without debate immediately after the Order of Business; and No. 2, statements on Ireland's performance in Horizon 2020 to date, to be taken at 1 p.m. and conclude at 3 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill referred to the budget. As he said, this is our last Order of Business before the budget announcements next Tuesday. The motion we will take after the Order of Business will re-order our business for Tuesday. Colleagues will wish to know that we will have statements on budget 2016 after the Order of Business on Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Many colleagues...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: A 2015 allocation of €37.16 million has been confirmed in homeless funding for the Dublin region. The Dublin region homeless executive has confirmed its expenditure to end-August was €33.54 million. Last week the Government approved the immediate initiation of a programme for early delivery of 500 units of modular housing to address the most urgent and pressing needs, while...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Colleagues asked for a response and I am giving it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am outlining a clear set of practical steps that have been taken. I also have more rhetorical responses, but I am trying to focus on what is being practically delivered to inform colleagues of outputs rather than simply reading about aspirations.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: A number of Senators referred to NAMA's role in housing delivery. NAMA funding delivered 40% of the 3,259 new housing units in Dublin in 2014. During the first half of this year, the agency funded the delivery of 50% of new input in Dublin and is on track to deliver 4,500 units in the city by the end of 2016. Clearly, practical steps are being taken and we are seeing outputs. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am at one with the Leader of the Seanad on the matter.