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Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 45:In page 16, line 16, after “allow” to insert the following:“, with details of the expenses paid out to each Board member to be publicly published after each year”. This again is on "transparency", the word and truth to which we should aspire for this term of the Oireachtas. We have been shocked many times in recent history to hear that...

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I am pressing the amendment. We cannot sit back on our laurels when we have had so much corruption in this country on different boards and involving different CEOs. Anything that will improve that and be seen to improve that is surely in the best interest. I will push it to a vote.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I will say to Senator Colm Burke that the system has failed at times.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: Perhaps it was the oversight then?

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I am.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I am pressing the amendment to a vote.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 46:In page 16, line 35, to delete “the Minister,” and substitute “the Oireachtas,”. Maybe we will get this one through. These amendments go into two distinct sets. The first incorporates amendments Nos. 46 and 47 and they are similar to those on which I have spoken previously in respect of replacing "the Minister" with the "Oireachtas". I...

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 47:In page 17, lines 4 and 5, to delete “the Minister and the approval of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.” and substitute “the Oireachtas.”

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 48:In page 17, line 13, after “disposal” to insert “and shall be publicly published annually”.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 49:In page 17, line 32, after “Board” to insert “and the Oireachtas”.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 50:In page 18, line 9, after “Children's Health Ireland” to insert “and its subsidiaries”.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 51:In page 18, line 11, after “Children's Health Ireland” to insert “and its subsidiaries”.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the passing of this Bill and I welcome the speed with which the National Children's Hospital is being delivered, given the difficulties in the area. I tabled 51 amendments because I have examined this Bill from head to toe and there are areas in it that needed tweaking and strengthening. I did this so as to improve this Bill, to try to explain it to people and to try to make it...

Seanad: Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I have been here for over two years and in learning how the Oireachtas works, it is great to see that impetus can be given to something that is so urgent. We are often depleted by the slowness of legislation. This Bill is of utmost importance in that the courts have asked that this be done. It is a human and civil rights issue. In treating mental health we went from the Lunacy Asylums Act...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I attended the presentation in the Royal Hibernian Academy; there was a bit of a to-do there also. I have several questions. The consultation has been pushed out to 28 September. That is unacceptable because half of the people of Dublin will not be around for the majority of that time. The city is empty. If I want to be cynical I could say this happens frequently, either over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: When will they be available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Is there a deadline for implementation which would explain why the public consultation is so condensed or, perhaps more accurately, being held at the wrong time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Dublin Bus still has the slogan of "serving the entire community". It is still on the back of the double deckers in Dublin. I remember the imp buses very well too. The witness referred to the national children's hospital - I live in its shadow - and how it will be impacted. There are stops on the Luas red line in Rialto and in St. James's Hospital. The hospital is packed with cars...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I am quite suspicious about whether it is a question of having this plan or no plan and whether the money would then disappear. The committee should tease that one out with the NTA as well because it is almost akin to a threat-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Almost 2 million yes.