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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Minister and her officials on having this landmark legislation passed in the House. Other speakers, including the Minister, noted the long gestation of the Bill. While there is no doubt the legislation is overdue, it has been greatly improved since the original version was published in 2010. This has been acknowledged by all speakers. Given that the Bill has secured strong...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for arranging a debate for later this evening on the mother and baby homes, given the general welcome all Members gave to yesterday’s announcement by the Government on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the matter, following the interdepartmental scoping exercise carried out. No doubt, this will be just the first of several debates on this,...

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State. As the largest substantive Bill in the history of the State, this is welcome legislation. Even carrying it to the Chamber took a little more work than the Bills we usually deal with. I also thank the Minister of State's officials for the helpful briefing they provided on 14 May and to which a number of Senators referred. I thank, in particular, Ms Elaine...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, back to the House as Minister for Justice and Equality. I think that I have already welcomed her in that capacity, but she is welcome, too, on this important legislation. I commend Senator Zappone on bringing forward this legislation and I am delighted and honoured that she asked me to second it. The legislation recognises a lacuna and flaw in our...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator Byrne, I welcome the announcement by the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and the Government decision on the need for an investigation into the mother and baby homes, the incidence of abuses within them of the women and children, and the manner of death and the high mortality rates in those homes. Given that many of those children who ended up in industrial schools had been...

Seanad: Visit of Romanian Delegation (5 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: It sounds like there is a story to be told. I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming our colleagues from Romania.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I congratulate former Senator Deirdre Clune on her election to the European Parliament. I am glad that we have the motion in that regard before us today to formally mark her election. I welcome the announcement made by the Government that it is taking up the issue of the burial of almost 800 babies from the mother and baby home in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. This is an issue that was raised...

Seanad: Racism in Ireland: Motion (4 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, to the House. She is always welcome and is a regular attendee here. I commend Senators Mac Conghail, Zappone and their colleagues, the Independent Taoiseach nominees' group, for putting forward a motion on this important issue. I also commend them on their highly articulate speeches. It is nice to speak...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Can I just say-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I did not raise it. Senator O’Brien also referred to what I suspect is no more than a rumour that the District Courts in Dublin are to be closed. I certainly have not heard that. There was a positive move under the previous Government to move the very antiquated Criminal Court sittings in the Bridewell to the Criminal Court of Justice and a new setting. All criminal justice...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I join with the Cathaoirleach and other Members in welcoming our colleagues from Mozambique. They are very welcome to the House. In respect of the Committee of Selection meeting tonight, I am sure the Leader will respond to Senator O'Brien. As leader of the Labour Party group, I am delighted that we are nominating Senator Susan O'Keeffe, who has unparalleled experience as an investigative...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with Senator O’Brien that the cost of various commissions of inquiry is a matter of concern but I have already acknowledged that a previous Government established a much better model of inquiry. I think Michael McDowell was the Minister for Justice and Equality who, in 2004, established the Commissions of Investigation Act, which has been a dramatic improvement on the very...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: The Fennelly commission of inquiry is charged with investigating a practice that apparently went on for some three decades in Garda stations in this State, the recording of telephone conversations.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I listened with courtesy to what Senator O’Brien said. The substance of the Fennelly commission is this practice of recording telephone conversations. It is appropriate to have a commission of investigation-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: This practice went on for three decades under the regimes of a range of Governments. It is certainly true that the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality sought, and it was agreed, that the terms of reference would also include the events surrounding the departure of the former Garda Commissioner.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I simply cannot make a point because I am being constantly interrupted.