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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is misrepresenting the policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I did not necessarily mean deliberately.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I have not spoken with the Leader. He may well have-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It may well be that the Leader has raised it with the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and, therefore, I will ask him. Senator Burke raised the issue of delays in payments, which may be taken as a matter on the Adjournment. He also paid tribute to the late Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. Senator Norris referred to health services, which I have dealt with. I agree with this...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 35, motion 14, Private Members' business, to be taken at 4 p.m. and to conclude not later than 6 p.m., and No. 1, Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 - Committee Stage, to be taken at the conclusion of Private Members' business and to conclude not later than 9 p.m.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator O'Keeffe for the briefing.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP, to the Chamber for this, our second address from a Member of the European Parliament. We are really glad to have this opportunity to engage with her and we found last week's engagement with Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP, very useful. Some of what Ms McGuinness said struck a chord in terms of the procedure of passing legislation at European Parliament level,...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour group, I join colleagues in expressing our sympathies to Senator Henry, on the death of her mother and also, of course, to the family of the late former Senator, Eamon De Buitléar. Again on behalf of the Labour group and personally I express absolute revulsion and disgust at the appalling murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. While much has been said about it,...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is an admission.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will not make any disclosures about voting. I welcome Mr. Mitchell. I commend him not only on his excellent paper but also, as others have said, on his great command of the brief as shown by his answering a very wide range of questions from Members. All of us would welcome his suggestion that we might extend an invitation to Baroness Catherine Ashton to speak in the House when she is in...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is being rolled out.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator MacSharry in wishing our Special Olympics athletes well. That is an important message to send. It is hard to take lectures from Fianna Fáil on cronyism. On a more collegiate note, I thank colleagues for the positive and thoughtful debate in the House last night on the Labour Private Members' motion on measures to improve quality of life in local communities. While a large...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, whose presence we really appreciate because it has been difficult to get a Minister. I am conscious that there are a number of Ministers away. This motion falls between the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of the Environment, Community Local Government so we appreciate the Minister of State's presence very much. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: My apologies for having to leave shortly to attend the Chamber. I thank the delegates for the presentation and pay tribute to the work of the Gay Men's Health Service and the Gay Health Network in tackling homophobia and discrimination against people with HIV. It is important to make that point. I will focus on legislation and the approach to take. I am reminded that some people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I was struck by Ms Latham's point that Ireland has a sizeable sex market led by Irish men's demands but serviced by migrant, impoverished women. This sums up the harms Ms Latham has observed in her clinical practice. I am also interested in her point that it is not a case of either/or. Clearly support needs to be given to exit strategies and routes out, whatever legal model for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Ms Stapleton for her presentation and I apologise as I should have thanked Dr. Freedman also. We are particularly interested in the experience in Limerick, where there has been a recent targeting of clients by the Garda. While Ms Stapleton said that had no effect on indoor prostitution, has it had an effect on on-street prostitution? Has it had the effect of driving prostitution...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: We heard from previous groups and witnesses who appeared before the committee about the blurred line between trafficking and prostitution, which is hard to establish - everyone is agreed on that - and the question of whether somebody has been trafficked, or exploited but not quite to the point of being illegally trafficked. I note Ms Stapleton said that 90% of the women working in street...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Dr. Freedman. I have discussed this with him before and I do not accept quite a number of his basic premises, particularly the idea that because prostitution has always existed in society we should somehow be persuaded against criminalising the purchase of sex. All sorts of human behaviour has been around for a long time but it does not stop us from seeking to regulate, restrict or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I am curious to know whether Dr. Freedman approves of the idea of decriminalising the sale of sex. We are looking at the Swedish model. Some of us visited Sweden, saw it in operation and spoke to many of the stakeholders. We were very impressed by it. We were impressed not only by the enormous benefit it has provided to former sex workers, who had been the sellers of sex, but also to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

Ivana Bacik: As I did not have an opportunity to do so yesterday, I would like to extend my condolences to the family of the late Shane McEntee and to our colleague, Senator Clune, on the sad loss of her mother. On another note, I compliment the Leader and the staff of the Seanad on the excellent hearings held in this Chamber in the first week of January by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and...