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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I am not singling out any particular Government but there was under-investment in water throughout the boom years.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: We have boil water notices in County Roscommon and elsewhere and shortages of water in Dublin. The system is not working. It is fragmented and inefficient and was under the management of 34 different local authorities. It is important that we have a public utility to seek a more efficient and a better infrastructure for water. On the issue of pay structures within Irish Water, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: That is unfair.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I am happy to support that call for a debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is going to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and then coming back.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Then it will come back here.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re appointments to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, referral to committee, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; and No. 2, European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Second Stage, to be taken at 3.45 p.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and all other...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is not private; it is public.

Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: We have all spoken.

Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to the House. It is always welcome to have debates on justice matters, particularly on policing, particularly the day after the budget when there has been a welcome announcement of increased funding for the Department of Justice and Equality Vote of €140 million since budget day last year, including a 68% increase in capital funding....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is cancelled out by the USC.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Fianna Fáil got the shock.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Can we quote you on that?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Some of us voted against the bank guarantee.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Daly is suffering from double delusions. When I hear him speaking about the budget, it seems he was not listening to what was said in the budget speeches in the Dáil or in the very substantive debate we had in this House last night. Had he been listening, as I was, or contributing, he might have noted that the commentators, like him, who said it was both auction politics and a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It represented, as both the Ministers, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, stressed, a modest step forward to a sustainable recovery.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It is a modest budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Nobody is being triumphalist over it. However, it represents real progress, particularly for low-income to middle-income earners. If one examines, as objective commentators have done, the impact of the changes to the USC and tax bands, one will see the people who will benefit are the low-income to middle-income earners, whom the budget was specifically designed to help. We had a good debate...