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

Ivana Bacik: As Senator Power said, it is difficult to get the wording of this right. However, there is one change I would like to see in amendment No. 4, and I raised this previously with the Minister's office. The idea of the panels of candidates is right. That is a good way of doing it and mirrors what has been done for the other panels. However, it is unduly conservatively worded with the use of...

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

Ivana Bacik: We have a woman, Senator Keane, in the Chair too. If we strengthen the education and training boards legislation, it is another piece in the jigsaw of ensuring greater gender equality.

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

Ivana Bacik: I believe that predated the current composition of the Cabinet.

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

Ivana Bacik: I have every confidence in her advice.

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

Ivana Bacik: I welcome Senator Power's amendment because it gives us an opportunity to discuss the matter. Having said that, Senator Power has already acknowledged that the numbers have increased since the first draft of the Bill was published. I looked back at the Bill as amended by the Select Sub-Committee and there were only four members appointed in accordance with subsection (9) and ten members in...

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

Ivana Bacik: That might have caused ructions in Trinity College.

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

Ivana Bacik: I listened with interest to the debate and was not going to participate until Senator Barrett referred to the issues Senator Power has addressed in her amendments. The relevant provision does not punish a parent whose child has been excluded, it is there to prolong his or her membership of the board. Where he or she ceases to have a child under the age of 18 registered as a student by reason...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator MacSharry took a similar opportunity.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps I will say no more about the Meath East by-election.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to Jimmy Walsh on the day we celebrate his long and successful career.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. That is very helpful. I am aware some colleagues paid tributes last Thursday and I was unable to do it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is very appropriate. I thank the Leader for making that time available. All of us would appreciate that. I know Jimmy Walsh will appreciate it also. I am sure every Member will join me in expressing relief that an agreement has been made in resolving the issues in Cyprus. It is welcome that deposit holders who have deposits of less than ¤100,000 will no longer be levied in the way...

Seanad: Restorative Justice Process: Motion (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to the House and look forward to hearing her response to this debate. I commend Senator Martin Conway on his initiative in putting this important motion to the House. I also welcome the groups represented in the Visitors Gallery, who agree it is very important we debate this issue, particularly in the wake of the report of the National...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister for Finance will come to the House this afternoon on Second Stage of the Finance Bill. Colleagues will raise the very worrying situation in Cyprus. The decision by the Cypriot Parliament sets down a marker that the people of Cyprus will not stand for the levy on depositors which was proposed. Senator MacSharry has placed undue emphasis on the Government. While it chairs the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris says it is less than 18% which is what I had heard too, contrary to reports which suggest that half of deposits were from Russian investors. In fact, it is less than 20%. In any case, the idea of a levy on depositors was a step too far and the risk of contagion too great. I hope we will see a renegotiation of the deal. I welcome the publication yesterday of a Bill to reform...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Could I also wish colleagues a happy St. Patrick?s Day, given that it falls this weekend? I agree that it is important that our Ministers travel abroad to represent Ireland across the world to ensure that we can get the maximum benefit for this country in terms of tourism and support for the economy at this time. It should be a great weekend at home in terms of people travelling here and...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: -----and achieve Government support for them and thereby result in changes in the law that benefit society. That is most important. I ask the Leader if we could have a debate at some stage in the future on the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in the Constitution. I will speak later this morning at an event being organised by Amnesty International in conjunction with a...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.