Results 61-80 of 391 for garda speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (9 Dec 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...Educate Together National School, along with the secondary school. The Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School will be moving to its own permanent accommodation on the site of the old Garda station on Harcourt Terrace. There are currently three schools at the Harold's Cross site, however, so the situation is particularly complex and there is a pressing need. I thank the...

Seanad: Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ..., violence against women, particularly within the home, intensified in different levels. I acknowledge the immense work that has been done by so many agencies. The Minister has spoken about the Garda's Operation Faoiseamh, which has been so important. I also acknowledge the work that has been done by NGOs, such as Safe Ireland, Women's Aid and others, which have stepped up to ensure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...services in each month since March. We already know from various reports the extent to which the risk of domestic violence has been heightened and exacerbated during the pandemic. I commend the Garda and NGOs that have been working on this during the months that Covid restrictions have been in place to ensure supports remain in place for women and children in particular who are enduring...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2020: Second Stage (17 Nov 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...caused by hate crime. While we await the legislation we are, I suppose, in a situation where we simply do not know the extent to which hate crime is perpetrated. In June of this year, the Garda reported that 250 crimes recorded in 2019 were judged to have a hate-based motive. It is worrying, but at the same time, I believe all of us would assume that is an underestimate of the true...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (6 Nov 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...President Biden to deal with. We have seen extraordinarily high levels of compliance from licensed premises, the subject of this legislation. That has to be commended. The way in which the Garda has approached policing and the use of draconian powers has also been commendable. All of us recognise that the Garda has not gone in with a heavy-handed approach. It has recognised that our...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...compliance with the restrictive movement requirements on return from abroad from countries that are not on the green list. These types of issues have created some level of confusion and, within the Garda, may make it harder to enforce laws and ensure there is compliance. I looked at a Garda police union survey conducted by the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors in June. The...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...through the criminal law. Amendment No. 2 speaks to that point. It seeks to amend section 3, specifically section 3(1)(a), to narrow and make clearer the power that is being provided to An Garda Síochána. It is an extensive power already in that it is a power to enter a relevant premises, which is, of course, a licensed premises under section 2, without warrant, to inspect,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Sep 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...being used without any clear rationale for its inclusion, we have to disagree and point out the dangers. Having examined the wording again in more detail, I note it already entails a very clear extension of Garda powers. The Garda is empowered to enter, without a warrant, a relevant premises, as defined in section 1, for the purpose of giving a direction, also defined in section 1, under...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...earlier amendments. It certainly should not be grouped together with a whole group of much less significant amendments. In addition, amendment No. 9 relates to a very specific issue regarding An Garda Síochána. I will wait for the Chair.

Seanad: Inquiry into the Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (20 Nov 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...as a litany of failures across policing and justice agencies on both sides of the Border. That is important. As I have said previously, we have seen a number of different reports over some years, notably reports from the Garda Inspectorate, from Mr. Sean Guerin, senior counsel, and from the Morris tribunal, which have been highly critical of failings in policing and in criminal justice...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...from the Minister today indicating that he is setting up a consultation process to establish what is needed in order to ensure safe access for women and others seeking to access hospitals and, furthermore, that the Garda Commissioner has notified gardaí to be more proactive in the context of putting in place measures to ensure safe access. Some of us, including myself, had called for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...those engaged in prostitution and reduced criminalisation, which is the purpose behind the legislation we introduced. That is what happened in Sweden and what we want to see happening here. The Garda needs to step up its policing of the criminalisation of the purchase of sex by focusing on the clients. That is the idea behind this feminist legislation.

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...picture of the eighth amendment which we have, happily, repealed. This discussion and context came to the fore again this week when we learned of how Majella Moynihan had been treated by the Garda two decades ago, which we are also discussing in the context of our debate in this House on the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. We will have an opportunity to speak to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...the dreadful case of Majella Moynihan. I commend her on her immense bravery in coming out and speaking about the horrific injustice she suffered at the hands of the State and her superiors in An Garda Síochána and about the terrible wrong done to her and her child, that is to say, the coerced adoption and her interrogation and threatened dismissal, along with all her other...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know if I can follow that contribution from Senator Norris. On a serious note, I would like join Senator Ardagh in sending condolences to the families of the gardaí who died. I had the pleasure of meeting with local gardaí in Kevin Street in Dublin 8 yesterday and working with them on street parties and community policing in the area. I commend the significant work that...

Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...to period poverty;and calls on the Government to:— provide a range of free, adequate, safe and suitable sanitary products and comprehensive, objective menstrual education information distributed through all public buildings, including schools, universities, direct provision centres, refuges, homeless services, Garda stations, hospitals, maternity hospitals, prisons, detention...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (5 Feb 2019)

Ivana Bacik: .... While the reporting of cases such as the conviction secured in recent weeks will have an important chilling effect, we are all conscious that resourcing must be put in place for specialist Garda units assigned to the work of targeting sex buyers and the organisers of prostitution who feed on demand. I have raised a number of different issues. I know the Minister of State is personally...

Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Ivana Bacik: .... It found that Maurice McCabe was an officer of exemplary character who has done the State considerable service. I acknowledge also that Mr. Justice Charleton greatly praised ordinary rank-and-file gardaí who do a very difficult job, but he was highly critical of the culture in An Garda Síochána and of aspects of Tusla, which as the Minister stated is a matter for the...

Seanad: Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage - An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim (20 Sep 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...or regimes may use against us or against minorities in their own state. While no one has ever been charged with this offence, back in 2015 there was a rather embarrassing case of a complaint made at Ennis Garda Station about comments made by the actor Stephen Fry on the "The Meaning of Life" programme. At the time, the former Minister Dermot Ahern said that the blasphemy provision had...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:"(3) A person is employed in the service of the State if he or she is- (a) a member of the Garda Síochána, (b) a member of the Defence Forces, or (c) a civil servant in the Civil Service of the Government or the Civil Service of the State.".