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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: She is a law student and a very capable auditor. I cannot claim to have spent three to four decades teaching freshmen yet but I agree with Senator Barrett's point about the need to ensure choice at third level. The Minister is not threatening that, or suggesting that courses should be abolished, he is saying the points race should be streamlined to ensure less multiplicity of courses....

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to be on that list, I think. Senator Healy Eames raised the draft insolvency guidelines. The guidelines will be published next week by the PIA and it would be a matter of great concern if the final version includes what we have seen in the draft that Niamh Connolly first reported in The Sunday Business Post and which included a possibility that parents would have to give up...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is right, and the final guidelines may well be changed.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I would welcome a debate on the issue and will request it. In the course of that debate we might look at the system set up by the Minister for Social Protection for a mortgage arrears information and advice service that was launched in September. It includes a website, keepingyourhome.ie, which has had 65,000 visitors, and an information helpline. There other ways in which people can...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator O'Sullivan raised an anomaly that exists in medical care in the south and I will ask the Leader to pass that concern on to the Minister for Health. Senator Keane raised the issue of the Geneva window, the Harry Clarke window that is currently in Miami. I thank the Senator for raising that as I had meant to do it. I had the privilege of meeting John Mulcahy of the Irish Arts Review...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Harry Clarke is one of our great artists and to have the window back for The Gathering would be hugely important. We would all join with Senator Norris in thanking the Cathaoirleach for the issuing of certificates marking our time as Senators. It is very nice to have it on the wall.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: We will see. Senator Norris also raised the issue of the GRA and AGSI and I agree with him that in respect of the off-duty garda who was canvassed in Meath East, it is hard to imagine that disciplinary action should be taken in that case, particularly as the debate between the off-duty garda and the Taoiseach was robust but amicable and they shook hands at the end.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: They are not a disciplined force.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re sectoral plan by Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, referral to joint committee, without debate, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, motion re insolvency proceedings, to be taken, without debate, at the conclusion of No. 1; No. 3, Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013 - all Stages, to be taken at the...

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, I am not sure what relevance this has to this legislation.

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: With respect to the Senator, I was speaking about reform of the courts.

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is pushing it.

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the introduce the Bill, which has received general support. I thank the Minister for introducing the Bill in the House. He has done this with justice-related Bills on a number of occasions and this is welcome, especially when there is general support in principle for the legislation but a number of complex issues must be teased out....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I would also like to begin by paying tribute to Jimmy Walsh on the occasion of his retirement this week. Along with most other Senators, I attended the wonderful event yesterday to celebrate his distinguished career. The Leader referred to his excellent shorthand skills, his many experiences and the great distinction with which he covered the Seanad. He also covered many other events,...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: In light of the fact that Government amendment No. 4 deals with the same matter, I will not move it.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I do not wish to delay matters but in the context of what was said earlier in respect of parents' representatives, I want to raise a very technical point. I would be grateful if the Minister or his officials might give some consideration to the point in question because it seems there is a slight anomaly with regard to 30(1)(c), which relates to the members who will be parents and which...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It appears that in one provision children will be under 18 and that this is not the case in the other. It is assumed in section 33 that the children involved - those in centres for education or recognised schools and those who are learners in children detention schools - are dealt with together whereas they appear to be treated separately elsewhere in the legislation.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is clear from section 33(1)(c) that this refers just to the parent learners.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It refers back to section 30(1)(c). The two must be read in conjunction with each other and that is why I am wondering about the difference in the wording in respect of age. It is really a technical point.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and thank him for bringing forward amendment No. 4. It has the same aim and effectively accepts in principle what Senator Moran and I are seeking to do through amendment No. 7. I do not take offence at Senator Power's remarks. She is quite right that the Government amendment is more elegantly worded.