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Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Lies.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will not take that time as I am conscious that others wish to speak. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley. I am happy to join with my colleagues on this side to rebut the Fianna Fáil motion, which as others have said, is inappropriate and a repetition of what has been set out very recently.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is a waste of Private Members' time. That is a matter for them.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Our motion touched on this very issue but it brought in a range of other issues around community life, including the Purple Flag.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Harte, as did other Senators, set out a very strong defence of Government policy on justice. Senator Bradford, very helpfully, pointed out that the attitude of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to the Seanad has been extremely positive. He has initiated a large number of Bills in this Chamber, probably more than most other Ministers. Let me say that his record...

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will now deal with the issue of the Garda which the Opposition has been focusing on. The figures provided by the Minister of State speak for themselves. It is scaremongering to suggest that reducing the Garda network to 564 stations is a cause for fear and anxiety. The figures for Northern Ireland, Scotland and elsewhere show that it is unnecessary to have the number of Garda stations we...

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I would ask the Opposition to look at the actual number of crimes reported each year in some of the Garda stations----

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Some of the stations have not been opened for a number of years and some only for a short period. Clearly to free up Garda time and to allow for an extra 61,000 Garda patrol hours is a better and more efficient use of policing time. It is worth reminding the Opposition of advances in technology and policing practice that will allow for more efficient use of policing rather than have gardaí...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Discussion with User Voice (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I was interested in that figure too. They are still saying that it is double value, £2 for every £1 invested. Is Mr. Johnson saying that has to be an understatement because they are only looking within the prison at the savings generated? It is very crude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Discussion with User Voice (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Johnson for his excellent presentation. I was also thinking about a listener service in Wheatfield which seems to operate on similar principles as the peer mentoring Mr. Johnson has been running. It is very impressive to hear about the councils and peer mentoring as a twin-track approach. Is this likely to be rolled out in Irish prisons and when might that go ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Discussion with User Voice (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Does that mean there are plans to roll it out in the Mountjoy campus?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear. Well said, Senator Norris.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senator Leyden for that.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will not take lectures on cronyism from Senator Leyden or Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: He is making a speech.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I did not think that sort of language was allowed in this Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is hard to listen to Senator MacSharry's manufactured outrage over an issue which Fianna Fáil when in Government failed to tackle.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It could have been tackled then. The Ombudsman's finding predates this decision. The Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, said that a review group will be established to consider how best to address the Ombudsman's finding and to operate these schemes-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Fianna Fáil in government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator is like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the previous Government, of which he was part.