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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Senator O'Brien can give it out but he cannot take it. He cannot sit and listen when I do him the courtesy of responding. I too seek a debate on third level education, as I have previously done. No decision has been taken at Cabinet.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: The Labour Party is committed not to reintroduce fees. The Labour Party is the party that abolished fees when in Government and we are proud of that record. Senator O'Brien's Government under-funded third level education to the point where Trinity College and other top level universities in Ireland have fallen down the international rankings because of under-funding, to the point where...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: We need a debate on third level education, particularly when no decision has yet been taken at Cabinet, to assist us in coming to a decision as to how we can adequately resource third level education.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I know that students will be protesting today outside the Dáil and Seanad. Many of us started out careers in student politics-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----and feel very strongly about the principle of free education and of no third level fees. I have also sought debates on climate change. That pledge has not gone, as Senator O'Brien knows.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: There is still a commitment, as there is in the programme for Government, to introduce climate change legislation. Let us not forget that the Fianna Fáil Government dragged its feet and prevaricated for years in the face of pressure from the Green Party in Government and never brought in the climate change Bill it had promised.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I will not take the ridiculous and outrageous assertions that Senator O'Brien makes, whether on education or climate change.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of all of us, I congratulate the Irish team on the wonderful result in last night's match against Estonia and I look forward to our participation, at last, in the championship next summer in Poland and Ukraine. That will be very exciting and a real morale boost for the country. I thank my colleagues, Senators van Turnhout and Conway who, yesterday, raised the issue of St. Patrick's...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Leader's announcement that a cross-party motion has been agreed on the sentencing to death of Pastor Nadarkhani in Iran, which is helpful. I remind leaders of the other groups that I have e-mailed an updated wording of a motion on Syria and would be grateful for cross-party support on that motion, particularly in light of recent reports of further abuses and killings by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I would be grateful for the support of colleagues of all parties on this issue. Again, it is a matter on which there was cross-party support in the last Seanad from both Government and Opposition parties.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Fourteen years of Fianna Fáil. It will not be a long debate.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It is in the Act.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I bring the debate to a close by thanking the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, and I welcome the Minister of State to the House in her place. I thank colleagues on both sides who have spoken so eloquently on the Bill. I thank the members of the Humanist Association of Ireland for their help and support with the Bill. I should have offered a special thanks to the Minister's advisers and...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: On Tuesday, 15 November 2010.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: On Tuesday, 15 November at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, to the House and thank her in advance for her support for this Bill. I also thank members of the Humanist Association of Ireland who are in the Gallery, in particular, Professor David McConnell, the president of the association, and Mr. Brian Whiteside, who gave great assistance in the preparation...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: We were all disappointed - that is an extreme understatement - at the decision of AIB and Bank of Ireland not to pass on the rate cuts. Their decision has made the move towards legislation much more likely. The words of the Tánaiste on "Six One News" last night were clear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It is not a case of simply ringing the Financial Regulator for his view.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: If Senator O'Brien would let me speak on this-----