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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: That is what they are seeking.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: As the Senator knows well, the only party which voted against the bank guarantee was the Labour Party.

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Ivana Bacik: I voted against it-----

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Ivana Bacik: The Senator has cast wild aspersions all around the place.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: There is no substance to what he says.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I never said a word about the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know where Senator Darragh O'Brien got that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator will have to go back to his sources. Yes, I support Minister Rabbitte's suggestion.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: No. I support the Minister's suggestion that there should be a second referendum on giving sufficient powers of inquiry to Oireachtas committees.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: No. I mean to Oireachtas committees generally.

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Ivana Bacik: The public has spoken.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: The public has spoken.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: All parties, including the party of which Senator Darragh O'Brien is a member, supported the last referendum which it is fair to say the people rejected.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Those of us who believe passionately, as I do-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: -----that Oireachtas committees should have full powers of inquiry are right to say we should run another referendum, with a different wording, making it clear that the High Court would have power of oversight, to give Oireachtas committees generally the power to conduct the type of full investigation parliamentary committees around the world can carry out.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: It is patently in the interests of democracy that the people have the right to learn, on foot of a full Oireachtas inquiry, what actually happened on the night in September 2008 the bank guarantee was given.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I would be very surprised if the Senator tried to stop a procedure to allow us to learn what happened that night.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. No party in government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Leader if we can debate the merits of holding a new referendum to give Oireachtas committees generally powers of inquiry in order that the conduct of the then Government in September 2008 and its decision which, effectively, brought down the economy through the bank guarantee could be investigated properly.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Ivana Bacik: I never said one word about the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. I have an open mind about which committee should conduct the investigation. The Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions was the one originally designed to examine the issue of investigations. It might well be reformed and revised to ensure it could adjudicate on the holding of such an...