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Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is great news for the Cooley Peninsula and the Mourne area. It is also great news for North-South relations. Senator Mary Moran put it well when she said it was a positive sign of North-South co-operation that this was finally taking place. The new bridge will bring enormous benefits, as Senator Terry Brennan has pointed out. It shows that 35 years of hard work can really pay off.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure it does not feel that long to Senator Terry Brennan. Senators Jim D'Arcy and Mary Moran also raised the issue of Narrow Water Bridge. Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú called for an issue relating to the remains of the patriot Thomas Kent to be brought to the attention of the Government. I will ask the Leader to write to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht,...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator. I will not respond to it. The development of Narrow Water Bridge was also referred to by Senator Mary Moran.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I inform the Senator that my grandfather was in a Nazi prison.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Darragh O’Brien raised the issue of the level of funding and services for home help hours. As the Senator knows, the HSE has responsibility for the delivery of home help services. The 2012 service plan provided for 10.3 million home help hours with a budget of €185 million. The HSE in its 2013 service plan has committed to maintaining the home help and home care...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Paul Coghlan also raised the issue of local authority parking charges and asked for a debate with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on this issue. This is a concern for many city and town centre traders and we will see if the Minister will attend the House for a debate. Senator van Turnhout raised the issue that went on to dominate the rest of...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 1, address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Margareta Wahlström, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General for disaster risk reduction and head of the UN office for disaster risk reduction, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business, in accordance with the arrangements set out in a motion passed by the House yesterday; No. 2,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: With the permission of the House, I would like to share time with Senator Harte.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O’Dowd, to the House, and I welcome the Criminal Justice Bill 2013, which has received good support from both sides of the House. We had a good debate, as Senator O’Donovan will recall, on the 2010 Act which this Bill amends. As the Minister stated, the bulk of this Bill - all of Part 2 - deals with amendments to be made to the 2010 Act...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Like everybody else, I was shocked and horrified by the incident in Woolwich, London, yesterday in which a young man was killed in broad daylight in front of large numbers of people in a brutal and gruesome attack. I am sure everybody would wish to extend their sympathies to the family of the dead young man. It is a serious issue, one which raises real concerns for public safety and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: We must be careful about robustly defending the Irish tax regime. It is appropriate that this issue was discussed at the EU summit yesterday. Clearly, this is an issue not alone for Ireland or any other individual country but at a transnational level in terms of ensuring transparency in tax regimes so that multinationals cannot escape their tax liabilities by seeking tax havens, which...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I compliment the Chairman and the clerk of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children which held hearings in the Chamber over the past three working days. It was very good use of the Chamber. The hearings were comprehensive. I attended as a substitute member for most of the hearings, and many colleagues were also in attendance. We had very constructive engagement on the heads...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: IHREC: Discussion with Members Designate (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Professor Mullally for her very comprehensive answer. Does she have a timeframe in mind? Will it be weeks or months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: IHREC: Discussion with Members Designate (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I echo Senator Katherine Zappone's words of congratulations to the delegates on their appointment as members of the IHRC and members designate of the IHREC. I apologise in advance for my imminent departure, as I must attend the Order of Business in the Seanad at 10.30 a.m. I was very glad to hear what Professor Mullally had to say about regular engagement with the committee and on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Chair for the impeccable way in which he has run the proceedings over the past three days. I also thank the clerk and the secretariat for running the proceedings so well. I feel privileged to have taken part and to have been enabled to take part as a substitute member, that is, as someone who has just come to the committee. I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to clarify-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Dr. Craven misunderstood the question I asked, namely, whether the definition of unborn, as currently constituted in head 1, included even the very sad situation where the foetus is no longer alive. I believe it does, which means that it would require women, even where they do not wish to do so, to carry to term a foetus that is not alive. That is my concern, and also that in head 19 we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will note the Chairman's distinction in that regard. My first question is to Dr. Craven. I am at a loss to understand his submission - I have read his submission as well as listening to his contribution - and the basis for his opposition to the heads of the Bill. His view is that it changes the current two patient duty, as he put it, but in my reading, and according to the experts we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank in particular to Mr. Callanan and Mrs. Justice McGuinness for their comments on head 19. I share their concerns about the over-broad drafting of that criminal offence. Could I ask them both specific questions about this Bill being conceptually conservative, in particular in head 1 in respect of two definitions? I agreed with Mrs. Justice McGuinness when she said she regretted that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what Professor O'Keane said.