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Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: No, it was highly fictional.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: Behave.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: The Government has driven them out of employment now anyway.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, we argued for the removal of the tax break.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: No, they are not. Renegotiation of the deal is an option.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: It is called bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: It was not of much help.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party I support this motion of no confidence in the Government. Listening to Senator Boyle, I was struck by the tone of his delivery and I thought he was going to tell us about his sleepless nights, as his party leader has done. The Green Party walked itself into the straitjacket of government, as it has been described. There was an alternative in 2007 and the Green...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: They have now brought down the economy.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: One woman's interaction is another woman's interruption. That is heckling by any other name. I am happy to deal with that but I did not heckle Senator Boyle although I was severely provoked. It is a source of great national shame and humiliation that we brought in the IMF, the EU and the ECB. As Morgan Kelly said, we are now dependent on the kindness of strangers and they are not very...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: To cut social welfare rates by €8 per week, to cut disability benefit, to cut carer's allowances are appalling developments in any Government, especially a Government that includes the Green Party which has said it is about protecting the vulnerable.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: We will not do it. The Labour Party has set its face against it. We will not reduce the minimum wage either.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: There are more than enough reasons on the grounds of economic policy for us to have lost all confidence in this Government, but there are many other ways in which we have lost confidence in it, such as the failure to introduce legislation on climate change. We would all love to see that, Senator Boyle.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I introduced a Bill in this House three years ago and Senator Boyle has been saying that to me for three years.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I look forward to it being passed. Not only has this Government failed on climate change, it has failed us on the children's rights referendum. In a week when we saw a lengthy sentence handed down to a serial abuser, we should remember that children's rights-----

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I was interrupted.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: On children's rights, this Government promised much but did not deliver. On that issue, quite apart from the economy, we have lost all confidence in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: No. In the light of what the Leader said, I accept that one hour will not be long enough, although I had proposed that the debate roll over. I ask the Leader to inquire whether the Minister will be available this evening or come to the House on the earliest possible date - tomorrow or early next week. Otherwise, I will press the amendment to a vote next week.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I support the calls made by Senators Fitzgerald and O'Toole for a debate on the disturbing report from the OECD on falling literacy levels in Ireland and the poor rate of achievement in maths. It gives the lie to the notion that this is a country that can be proud of its education system when so many children are falling between the cracks in the system. As Senator O'Toole stated, this is...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: This is a serious issue in the context of our discussion today on the budget, the most brutal in the country's history. The cutbacks will severely affect the low paid and those in receipt of social welfare. Cuts of €8 per week have been announced for those in receipt of carer's and unemployment benefit and blind and disability pensions, which is outrageous. Having listened to the people...