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Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The words "may direct" is giving a power of compulsion to a person, or an officer, to whom it is inappropriate to give that power. That is quite different to an adjudication officer, or a person in the role already described, somebody who is in a quasi-judicial position.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: We need to be clear about the appropriate forum. If one is talking about people moving on, subsequent to mediation having failed, to an adjudicative process, then clearly any directive powers would have to be attributed or connected to the adjudicative process and not the person engaged in the actual running of the mediation. In terms of language, the words "request" or "direct" have the...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I think we disagree on where that is.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I appreciate the spirit of this amendment because it is reflects an issue I raised on Second Stage with the Minister of State, Deputy Gerald Nash, namely, my concern to ensure the equality function of the new entity is not downgraded. Indeed, I suggested at one point that we should consider putting the word "equality" into the name of the new body, because equality law and the equality...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure all colleagues will join me, as they did yesterday, in condemning the dreadful attack on the prison officers by the escaped prisoner, Mr. Brockwell, but I am sure also that everyone will wish to join me in commending the PSNI officers and gardaí who were involved in the police operation that resulted in his recapture, as we heard last night. I am disappointed at Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: It is something on which this House can unite in support of those on the front line in seeking to ensure that dangerous prisoners such as this man do not evade recapture when an escape has happened, and to ensure that escapes like this are prevented in future.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: A measured debate on this matter with the Minister for Justice and Equality would be appropriate, but not a knee-jerk debate today when there are ongoing operations and it is not yet clear what will be the outcome in terms of whether Mr. Brockwell will be returned to Britain to serve the remainder of his sentence. Fianna Fáil tabled an amendment on this issue yesterday also, and I felt...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure colleagues will join me in offering best wishes to the two prison officers who were so brutally wounded yesterday during an escape by a prisoner they had accompanied to Tallaght hospital. There has been a good deal of commentary in respect of this particularly heinous attack, which is the subject of an ongoing Garda operation. Yesterday, a number of colleagues raised the issue of...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Now.

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I thank everybody in the House for their co-operation. With only 60 Senators in the House, I have been very surprised by the number of personal stories from Members based on direct or family experience. These stories show how much the subject ripples throughout society. This is a really proud day for me. I thank Senator Power, in particular, for all her work on the Bill. I thank also...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I think all colleagues will want to join with me in condemning the shootings in Denmark at the weekend coming so soon after the terrible killings in France in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo affair.I note there is now a most unfortunate atmosphere of fear and intimidation around the issue of free speech. We had a meeting in Trinity College last night on that topic, which had obviously been...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Humphreys, to the House. I welcome all the people in the Gallery as well. I know they have played a major part in getting us to this stage. I welcome the fact that we are almost at the conclusion of this progressive legislation, which is long overdue, as we have all acknowledged. I welcome the fact that in accordance with the debate on Committee...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey. I support the Labour Party Private Members' motion on the subject of housing to which Senators Aideen Hayden, Denis Landy, Marie Moloney and other colleagues have spoken with great eloquence. Having listened to Senator Sean D. Barrett, we would all agree with him on the adverse consequences for Irish society of the commodification - in...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I also welcome this Bill. As the Minister of State has said, it is part of a comprehensive programme of justice reform which will, among other things, substantially strengthen Garda accountability and I very much welcome it in that context. In his speech the Minister of State set out quite a range of different aspects of the reform programme...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I accept that. We have had an extensive debate on the Order of Business because a number of other colleagues raised the issue of the role played by the Attorney General. Senator John Gilroy referred to the role of the Attorney General and Article 15. Colleagues will be aware that Article 15.4.1° states the Oireachtas shall not enact any law which is in any respect repugnant to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I will respond first to Senator Paschal Mooney, who raised the issue of turf cutting and compliance with the habitats directive, as well as differing views on the levels of compliance here. The Senator has asked that the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather Humphreys, come to the House to debate the issue. I will seek such a debate with the Minister and have already...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business today is No. 1, Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014 - Second Stage, to be taken at 1.15 p.m. and adjourned not later than 3.30 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes; No. 2 Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013 - Committee Stage, to...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.