Results 101-104 of 104 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...entitled to organise emailing campaigns. This is not the first such campaign and I am sure it will not be the last. People are perfectly entitled and, indeed, justified in so doing if they feel strongly about an issue. It is up to us as public representatives to respond to and call out the individuals who email us if we believe that what they are saying is wrong or we disagree with...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...default if nothing were done but something can be done, that is, an amendment to the 2004 Act to disapply the 30-year rule. The crux of the matter is that very many people who have contacted us feel strongly about this. We have been told in a very useful data protection assessment document that we received from the Department at 10 a.m. that there are 60,000 records identified to be...

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...a right to two weeks at 80% of a worker's wage. There are, therefore, some very generous examples.In Ireland, by contrast, many workers, mainly those in non-unionised private sector employment, often feel under pressure to continue working when they are sick. Of course, that has implications in the context of the enormous challenges posed by Covid, which really makes the case for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Justice and Equality the urgent need to increase the numbers we have committed to taking. I am aware it is something about which the Leader feels strongly and on which she has spoken and I appreciate that. It is simply inadequate to say we will take four unaccompanied minors when we know 13,000 women, men and children are left in...