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Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I know "abscond" is not a legal term but the use of the word implies that the person would leave with the charge hanging over them in some way. This clearly deals with somebody who has been acquitted. There is no time limit on section 8 so when the section commences, somebody could be acquitted and five years down the line the DPP might move an application under the section because new...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I join colleagues in welcoming the deferral of tomorrow's proposed strike. Following a bleak week, flood waters are receding just as the prospect of a strike has receded but we are still facing into the appalling vista of the budget next week. I would like a debate on a number of public services that are likely to be cut in the budget, especially those relating to early childhood care and...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: NUI students have also raised this. The money is not being spent on improved student facilities. Debates are needed on funding for the third level sector and early childhood education. I have called for a debate on early childhood education many times and I would like it to be taken as a matter of urgency.

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I support Senator Regan's amendments. Earlier, we debated other amendments concerning the treatment of victims. At that stage the Minister stated in his view it was not appropriate to place those in statutory form. I anticipate he may take the same view in respect of these amendments and I am conscious that some of the provisions are already carried out in practice, notably, that an...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps I was too stingy with my compliment.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I support the comments of Senators Fitzgerald and O'Toole regarding the Murphy report. It is a shame we are not debating the report today when the rest of the country is but I am glad it will be debated in the House next Friday. The report makes for distressing reading. It has exposed the appalling inadequacy of responses to horrific rape and sexual abuse of children by both church and...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: In a week when the public service is coming under attack, as a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights I visited the new criminal courts complex on Parkgate Street. We must commend the Courts Service in particular and the public service in general for bringing on stream such an impressive building with a great improvement in facilities for...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator McDonald and Senator Feeney in seeking a debate on women's participation in politics. The justice committee unanimously adopted, on a cross-party basis, the report on women's participation in politics and its recommendations. Indeed, the committee recommended that the report be debated in both Houses of the Oireachtas. Perhaps we might steal a march on the other House by...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I am flattered to be addressed as one of the Lehman sisters.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: We would prefer it sooner.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (26 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, I think we are doing Nos. 1 to 4 without debate.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (26 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I should say that I was on the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights yesterday when these matters arose. Although we supported them on the Opposition side, we did express concern at the lack of information and time for debate that was allocated to that committee. We are conscious that there will effectively be a tsunami of such measures coming before us by virtue...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: It is experienced at leading the country into recession.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I renew my call to the Leader for a debate on climate change. I asked him last week to schedule a debate on climate change in the Seanad and, in particular, on the principle of a climate protection Bill. As colleagues know, I have a Bill before the House and there is a Labour Party Bill before the Dáil. The Government promised a Bill and I understood it would be published before the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I join others in welcoming the appointment, for the first time, of a woman Commissioner by an Irish Taoiseach. As others have said, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is a person of immense ability and has a great track record. While I am delighted that a woman has been appointed, I have to say I am sorry it is a Fianna Fáil woman. I think she will do a very good job. I hope this House can have a...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: It is clear there is immense concern on both sides of the House about the leaking of announcements from AIB and a need for a debate on control of the banks and who in them is calling the shots. It is extraordinary, in the wake of the lengthy debates on NAMA we had last week, that the taxpayer is shouldering the entire risk but the State, which should act in the public interest, cannot assert...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: It was unrelated to bankers but Senator White has seen a link. A debate on the use of imprisonment generally is needed. The report in The Irish Times referred to Dr. Conor O'Neill, a consultant psychiatrist at the Central Mental Hospital, who reports that 8% of male remand prisoners have psychotic symptoms, a rate ten times that in the community generally and which is of immense concern....

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Bill which facilitates the move to the new criminal courts complex. Most of the provisions deal with the procedures consequent on that move. However, on Second Stage I expressed concerns about Part 2 and the provisions on temporary custody. With regard to the Minister's amendment to the definition of "holding area officer" in section 5, I take the point that much of this is...

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, line 40, after "person" to insert "who is lawfully in custody". This amendment was tabled in the Dáil by Deputy Rabbitte. It seeks to limit the definition of a person who may be placed in temporary custody to a person who is lawfully in custody. I expressed a reservation about the drafting of this section on Second Stage. Section 6 refers to a prisoner...