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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Ivana Bacik: ...President Michael D. Higgins. Any democrat should join in condemning those protests, which are clearly unacceptable. As Uachtarán na hÉireann, the President represents all of the people of Ireland, at both national and international level, and should be above politics. Most fair-minded people recognise this. To my memory, there has not been a protest of this nature against...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...Mark Daly in welcoming the group from the Irish Deaf Society to the Visitors Gallery. The issue of funding for voluntary groups, particularly health groups such as the Neurological Alliance of Ireland and the Irish Deaf Society, was raised by colleagues on both sides of the House yesterday. In his response the Leader indicated that an appeals process was under way, overseen by Pobal, and...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...others will wish to join with me in paying tribute to Gerry Conlon whose death occurred last Saturday, 21 June. He was one of the Guildford Four, released from imprisonment in Britain in 1989, and spent the rest of his life campaigning for other victims of miscarriages of justice. Many of us were impressed by his work over the years. I wish to express my sympathy to his family on his...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness (19 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...the former Mrs. Justice McGuinness's illustrious career, which spanned so many different areas of Irish public life as a barrister, Dublin University Senator, president of the Law Reform Commission and, of course, a judge in the Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. She has a long track record in so many areas of human rights, children's rights and family law reform, as well as on...

Seanad: 750th Anniversary of First Irish Parliament: Statements (18 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Deenihan, to the House. He is as welcome as always, and he is particularly welcome today on this auspicious date, the 750th anniversary of the first recorded sitting of a Parliament in Ireland, on 18 June 1264. That date is particularly auspicious because it was the first Wednesday after the feast of the Holy Trinity and, interestingly, the 750th anniversary...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Government's decision yesterday on discretionary medical cards. I know that quite a number of colleagues referred to it yesterday on the Order of Business and I meant to do so myself. It will offer great reassurance to many. The Minister for Health, the Taioseach and the HSE officials who have spoken in the media have done their best to clarify the circumstances of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for arranging a debate for later this evening on the mother and baby homes, given the general welcome all Members gave to yesterday’s announcement by the Government on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the matter, following the interdepartmental scoping exercise carried out. No doubt, this will be just the first of several debates on this,...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: Like Senator Byrne, I welcome the announcement by the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and the Government decision on the need for an investigation into the mother and baby homes, the incidence of abuses within them of the women and children, and the manner of death and the high mortality rates in those homes. Given that many of those children who ended up in industrial schools had been...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...that we have the motion in that regard before us today to formally mark her election. I welcome the announcement made by the Government that it is taking up the issue of the burial of almost 800 babies from the mother and baby home in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. This is an issue that was raised first by Senator Hildegarde Naughton. A number of other Senators and I raised it yesterday on...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...closed. I certainly have not heard that. There was a positive move under the previous Government to move the very antiquated Criminal Court sittings in the Bridewell to the Criminal Court of Justice and a new setting. All criminal justice practitioners, service users, gardaí etc. appreciated that modernisation. I will certainly look into Senator O’Brien’s statement...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leader for responding yesterday to my call and that of many colleagues for a debate on the bugging allegations in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. A little more information has been forthcoming since we spoke yesterday on the Order of Business, but it is important that we wait to see what is stated today before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to the House and I greatly welcome the introduction of this Bill. The debate on this Bill in this and the other House is truly historic because it represents the first time that we as legislators have faced up to our responsibility to women in crisis pregnancies by directly addressing the issue of abortion, instead of leaving it to the courts...

Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mary White, and welcome, in particular, her personal interest in this matter. I also welcome to the Gallery representatives of very many groups that have had a long-standing interest in this area, in particular, the National Women's Council, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, the Irishwomen Lawyers Association, women from Trinity College gender studies...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful to Senator Fitzgerald for outlining the background to these amendments. I tabled them on Committee Stage and I was supported by Senator Fitzgerald, Senator Norris and others. The sense of them is not about changing the meaning of any of the relevant provisions but rather to change the language. The language used is based on the previous version of these provisions is...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Ivana Bacik: I oppose this amendment which is not helpful. Section 19, as drafted, very importantly regards the welfare of the child as the first and paramount consideration, which is in keeping with our international obligations in terms of the rights of the child. To start to qualify or dilute that by creating presumptions would be unhelpful. Senator Alex White already referred to the baby Ann case....