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Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his kind words. Today was the 90th anniversary of the first Seanad and it was noted how many amendments have been tabled in this House in that period. This Bill is a case in point, where we have made a couple of hundred amendments in the course of a comprehensive debate. The Bill is of great importance. We hope the debt resolution mechanisms will work to offer...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his kind words. Today was the 90th anniversary of the first Seanad and it was noted how many amendments have been tabled in this House in that period. This Bill is a case in point, where we have made a couple of hundred amendments in the course of a comprehensive debate. The Bill is of great importance. We hope the debt resolution mechanisms will work to offer...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Tomorrow morning at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: 90th Anniversary of Seanad Éireann: Statements (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Seanad abolition Bill was not put to the Dáil until the day after the Seanad had voted down a Government Bill to restrict the wearing of uniforms in light of the Blueshirts threat. There is an interesting history to the first Seanad abolition Bill. The reason I mention all of this is because, in March and April 1934, there was a fascinating series of debates in both Houses on the idea...

Seanad: 90th Anniversary of Seanad Éireann: Statements (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: A Freudian slip.

Seanad: 90th Anniversary of Seanad Éireann: Statements (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted and honoured to speak for the Labour group on the 90th anniversary of Seanad Éireann, the 90th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of Free State Seanad on 11 December 1922. I am honoured not only as a Labour Senator, but also as a university Senator, because the university Senators have had a very proud tradition in this House. Many of the Senators, named by colleagues...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: That is what coalition is about. That is democracy.

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...