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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Senators Alex White and O'Toole for their kind words. Although I have made a small physical move forward and to the right, of course, I stay politically exactly where I was before, which is firmly on the left. I have the privilege of having been elected by the graduates of Dublin University to represent them in the Seanad and I will continue to work hard to do so. I ask the Leader...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I will.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I support Senator Fitzgerald's amendment to the Order of Business on the basis that the Seanad should be sitting longer. Recent days have shown the need for more sitting time. Yesterday, the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill was railroaded though the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: Second Stage was guillotined and speakers who wanted to contribute could not do so. We were unable to give any thought to amendments on Report Stage, which is a pity. Senator Mullen already referred to the House of Lords.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I am asking the Leader why he cannot give more time, given that the House of Lords was able to block the 42-day detention powers in England.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: It is interesting that we could not put any amendments through in the Seanad last night. I also want to ask the Leader why we are not having time to debate the report of an bord snip nua. The Seanad should be sitting for that next week. We are all under the impression that the report will be published at some stage next week. There has already been widespread selective leaking of some of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I hope the Senator is not referring to me again.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I echo the words of Senator White in thanking the Minister for his engagement with us throughout the debate today. I thank also his officials who worked so hard on the Bill and staff in the Attorney General's office who I understand also advised on different aspects of the Bill. Although I agree this was a good and measured debate and that we engaged on many of the points about which we had...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying the nature of the detention powers with which we are dealing. These are all substantial detention powers. He has also confirmed that the power to detain a person for seven days pre-charge is now being extended to all organised crime offences under Part 7 of the 2006 Act. It is evidence of creeping changes in the criminal justice system. When...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledged that point earlier.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 16: In page 22, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following: "(III) the person to whom the application relates and any legal representative (whether of that person or the applicant).".

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 17: In page 23, to delete lines 42 to 46. These amendments are grouped together because they all seek to do the same thing with regard to three different detention powers in sections 21, 22 and 23. In all three cases, the amendments seek to delete the Minister's provision stating that no issue as to the lawfulness of the arrest or detention of the person may be raised at...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful to the Minister for giving a little more detail. He referred to the Keating case in 1990, but I am aware of more recent cases. In the Bernie case - I was involved also in a related case - one of the reasons the Court of Criminal Appeal objected to a challenge to the jurisdiction of the Special Criminal Court was because the accused has not raised the point concerning the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: No, it is before being charged. We are concerned with the pre-charge period.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: In response to Senator Walsh, who I think was seeking to attack me, although I am not sure, it is utterly wrong to start once again personalising the debate and suggesting that people who are raising valid issues-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: We are all equally outraged at the horrific murders of people such as Shane Geoghegan, Roy Collins and Wayne Doherty.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: We all recognise that the rights of their families need to be protected.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: We all share the goal of tackling gangland and organised crime. I have done a great deal of research-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: -----and work on behalf of victims of crime and some of this work has fed into legislative change on behalf of victims of crime. I resent deeply any suggestion that those on this side of the House who raise valid criticisms of legislation before the House, which are not just technicalities, are somehow soft on crime or less concerned about victims' rights. I wish to put this on the record...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2009)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand," put and declared carried.