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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: -----which is utterly unjustified and unwarranted.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: It is unparliamentary, unjustified and untrue. The Minister-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I listened to Senator O'Brien.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: There was no lie.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: I am afraid a pattern is emerging. I do Senator O'Brien the courtesy of listening to his outrageous attacks on different individuals. I listened to him making an outrageous assertion that the Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, lied. He has not lied. I ask Senator O'Brien to withdraw that very serious and untrue allegation.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: As Senator O'Brien is well aware, no decision has been yet been taken at Cabinet.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Nobody has lied. Yes, Deputy Quinn signed the pledge and I signed it. I think most Members of this House signed it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Ivana Bacik: Let us not forget that under Senator O'Brien's Government registration fees were increased in successive years during boom times-----

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.