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- Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: The Minister had already accepted it and it had become a Government amendment.
- Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I do not recall him saying that.
- Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: It is flattering that the Labour Party is receiving so much attention from the Minister.
- Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I am glad to hear it.
- Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Who has been in government for the past 13 years?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Call an election and let us see.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator was addressing questions to us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Everyone can avail of free fees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Everyone can avail of free fees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: It is rather flattering that so many Senators, including Senators Daly and Quinn, are so anxious to know the content of the Labour Party's policies on various matters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I invite them to join us in developing policy. I have membership forms-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: -----to join the Labour Party for anyone who wants them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I also wish to refer colleagues to the content-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: -----of a speech made by the Labour Party leader, Deputy Gilmore, last week in the Dáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh. Senators should read Deputy Gilmore's speech in which he set out clearly the parameters of the Labour Party's economic policy and that in the budget we would favour a 50:50 split between taxation and revenue raising measures and cuts in spending. It is ironic that Senators are looking for the Labour Party policy on education when, even after 13 years in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I know it is open season on university lecturers and that it is very easy to attack. However, if we are serious about building a knowledge economy and attracting foreign direct investment and non-EU students who pay high fees, we need to support the university and third level sector.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I ask for a debate on the issue of choice in primary school education, a matter on which the Labour Party has a very clear policy, unlike other parties which have done nothing to ensure diversity of patronage across the sector. There will be a group of parents and children outside the gates of Leinster House tomorrow whose protest will take the form of a children's parade calling for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Ivana Bacik: I, too, welcome the debate on the Roscommon abuse report. Like others, I am appalled and saddened by the terrible failures of the State it discloses. It does not bear thinking about that for 25 years, from when the family concerned first came to the attention of social services in 1989 to 2004 when the HSE finally took some of the children into care, these six children were subjected to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Ivana Bacik: Nobody is doing that.