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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: We should hurry up.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: This is a learning curve but I will allow the Bill to go through in order that it will not delay payment increases. Sinn Féin has tabled a motion on the gender gap, which will be debated in the Dáil tomorrow. We will learn a little more and I seek cross-party support, particularly from Fianna Fáil given Senator Ardagh has eloquently defended women and referred to the gender...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Services.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Public services.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Property tax, water charges.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: We have not been invited.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: It was more than that. More than 220,000 people were aged under 24.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I wish to put to bed the contradiction in what Senator Coffey said. He mentioned Senator Billy Lawless, who is the Taoiseach’s nominee, but Senator Lawless has pleaded with this House for cross-party support of the motion without the dilution of an amendment. That is all that needs to be said about Senator Coffey’s contribution and others. Many of us have lived as emigrants....

Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Undocumented Children: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for the report. They have given us an understanding of the fear, alienation, loneliness and the experience of being in a place where one cannot settle and call home. I have a number of observations. The diagram presented by the witnesses shows that the position of undocumented migrants in Ireland is the very same as in the US. We are great at lobbying and trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Support Services for Family Law Courts: One Family (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I have read this over. It is a very well presented and easily read document where One Family has laid out the salient points. Cherish, 44 years ago, was fairly brave. Was it under the auspices of the church at the time? I am not sure if it was an independent set-up-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Support Services for Family Law Courts: One Family (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: It was a fairly brave step to push through those barriers I would imagine because 44 years ago divorce was still rare and society was conservative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Support Services for Family Law Courts: One Family (30 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: It would have been strange for it not to have been under the church at the time but we have moved along. It was a very brave step by the women at the time to take on that conservatism. I imagine those accessing support services for children experience financial poverty and family breakup. The greatest moral scandal of our time is homelessness. When parents split up, one parent may not be...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister for presenting the Social Welfare Bill. First, I echo the sentiments of Senator Boyhan on pensions for councillors, and the paucity of the reform of their terms and conditions. I also echo his call for the Minister to respond to him and say how he will speed up the changes and make them a bit more meaningful. I remind the Seanad and the Minister of the call in the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: Are we to plan on the basis of the position in the North? Was emigration not a factor in the decrease in the youth unemployment rate?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: Leaving is the other option.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.