Results 7,801-7,820 of 11,668 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Senator Mullen is persisting in making unfounded allegations against an organisation, against which he has made unfounded allegations before in this House. He should stop.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Unfounded allegations.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Ministers to the House. I want to make three points in respect of the amendment seeking to delete section 9. First, it would be unconstitutional to delete section 9 because to delete the provision relating to suicide risk would give insufficient regard to the right to life of the pregnant woman and would not implement the X case judgment for the reasons others have already...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Third, anyone who is really serious about trying to delete section 9 from the Bill should read again Chief Justice Finlay's judgment in the X case, those compassionate and humane words of a judge who was faced with the very real prospect of a 14-year old girl who had been raped and who was suicidal as a result. They should remember that the psychological evidence was accepted by the State...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: That was the issue. It was not a case about treatment or about mental illness. It was a case about a young girl who was suicidal as a result of a crisis pregnancy and for whom abortion was a necessary option in order to avert the real and substantial risk that she would end her life. I wish, like Senator Crown, that we could legislate for cases of rape and fatal foetal abnormality-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: It is outside the scope not only of these amendments but of the Constitution. I believe it is very welcome that this Government is finally, after 21 years-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator should apply it to his own side.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: It is not comparable.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: It is not comparable.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: It has been on Second and Committee Stages.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: We have heard all of this already.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: We have heard about this on other Stages.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: I have sat through hours of this already.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: That is rubbish.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, Senator Walsh has brought this House into disrepute through his use of inappropriate and insensitive language already in this debate. I appeal to you, a Chathaoirligh, to exercise a firm hand by stopping repetition, digression and inappropriate language.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Let us speak on the amendment and be respectful in our deportment.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Four thousand a year.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: Four thousand women a year.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Ivana Bacik: What is the point?