Results 8,201-8,220 of 11,441 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator might not like it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I believe-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I believe it is fair that we would move to a system-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: -----where tax is also imposed on property. I do not have a difficulty with that. We need to ensure it is imposed fairly and we will have an opportunity to debate that when it comes to this House. I will not take lectures from Senator Darragh O'Brien or his colleagues-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: ----- about the inequities of a property tax they signed us up to in the first place-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: ----- and, indeed, the inequities of a troika programme into which they got the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I did not interrupt Senator Darragh O'Brien.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: On the specific issue the Senator raised, it is no secret that Labour wanted to impose higher taxes on higher earners. That was clear from our manifesto. We were not elected into a majority or single-party government. It is a coalition Government and this budget is, of necessity, a compromise. Many of us are most unhappy with the cuts to the respite care allowance and the cuts to child...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: -----is if we see more money being paid over in respect of promissory notes, again signed up to by the previous Government in respect of the former Anglo Irish Bank.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: It certainly did.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I am sure colleagues on both sides will agree that we should all join in condemning the violence in Northern Ireland which got worse over the weekend. I know other Senators raised the issue last week. In particular, yesterday's appalling attempted murder of a police officer by throwing a petrol bomb into a car brings back dreadful memories of the worst days of the Troubles in Northern...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: As Senator Darragh O'Brien said, we will have an opportunity next week to debate the social welfare Bill and I do not want to pre-empt that discussion. I find it very hard to take lectures from the selective amnesiacs across the House who have conveniently forgotten that they got us into this mess. They signed us up to a property tax, so that was their commitment.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: At noon on Tuesday, 11 December 2012.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: That is a hard act to follow. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Burton, to the House and thank her for the support she has given this Bill. As others have kindly acknowledged, this is a reformulation of a Private Members' Bill - the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011 - that I initiated on behalf of the Labour Party group in this House on 10 November 2011. I welcome the members of the...
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and the opportunity to speak about the expert group's report on the judgment in the A, B and C case. I thank him for his very clear outline of the circumstances behind the report and its content. I share his view that the expert group deserves commendation and praise for its work. I also thank him for clearly stating the Government's commitment to act on the report...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party group in the House, as Deputy Leader of Seanad Ãireann and as a Trinity Senator, I am honoured to pay tribute to the late and much missed Senator Trevor West. I welcome his wife, Maura Lee, and his family, including friends of mine, who are in the Gallery. I am pleased that we are paying tribute to Trevor West. I knew him personally. When I came to Trinity...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Santa's document.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: If the Senator says he is speechless, he should remain so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator has promoted Senator Darragh O'Brien to Minister.