Blog Archive | Justice
Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission Bill 2014 (18th June)
Posted on June 24, 2014
Senator Bacik speaking to the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission Bill 2014 (18th June)
Address to Seanad Eireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness
Posted on June 22, 2014
Address to Seanad Eireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness, 19th June
Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage
Posted on June 18, 2014
Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Order of Business, Seanad (10 June 2014)
Posted on June 17, 2014
Subject - Mother and Baby homes; Industrial schools; Domestic Violence; #SafeIreland
http://youtu.be/0L5B_N50NwI
Racism in Ireland Motion: 4th June 2014
Posted on June 10, 2014
Seanad Debate - Racism in Ireland Motion: 4th June 2014
Tuam Babies - Order of Business (4th June 2014)
Posted on June 10, 2014
Order of Business - 4th June.
I support the call made last week by Senator Hildegarde Naughton who called for an inquiry into the recent worrying revelations of the deaths of some 800 infants between 1925 and 1961 in a mother and baby home in Tuam in County Galway. I know considerable momentum has gathered around this as local historians have uncovered appalling information about these deaths and the way in which they went unreported and were hidden. We need to know more about what has happened there.
Paris Bakery ('Phoenix Syndrome') - Order of Business
Posted on June 10, 2014
Order of Business, 4th June.
DNA Database Bill, May 27th 2014
Posted on May 30, 2014
Senator Bacik speaking to the DNA Database Bill on May 27th, 2014. Also welcoming Minister Frances Fitzgerald to the House as new Minister for Justice and Equality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZeTAyZMVB4&feature=youtu.be
Senator Bacik pays tribute to Deputy Nicky McFadden, and former Senator Edward Haughey
Posted on March 26, 2014
Order of Business
Senator Ivana Bacik: I join you, a Chathaoirligh, and Senator MacSharry in paying tribute to the late Deputy Nicky McFadden and expressing, on behalf of the Labour Party group, our deep regret and sympathy to her family on her untimely death. Like many other colleagues, I served with the former Senator, Nicky McFadden, in the last Seanad and she was an extremely collegiate individual, a very warm person and an effective Senator. We will have time to pay tribute to her properly in the House and I look forward to that.
Senator Bacik Pays Tribute to Christine Buckley
Posted on March 11, 2014
Speaking today, Senator Ivana Bacik expressed her sympathy for the family of the late Christine Buckley, whose death has just been announced, and paid tribute to the tireless campaigning work that Christine did in exposing the terrible abuses suffered by children institutionalised in residential care, in Goldenbridge in particular.
Senator Bacik said: