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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: It is okay, I forgive the Cathaoirleach. Céad míle fáilte to our witnesses. What came across today is the tender loving care that is being given to our most vulnerable kids. All kids deserve it but it is often lacking in what should be a secure place: a home. I need to announce my partisanship here, which is that I am on the board of St. James's Primary School, which was my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: That is not the issue.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: I should say that I am a board member of the Donore Community Drug and Alcohol Team, so there is a bit of a bias there. It is obvious that the Dublin 8 area of the city, as with many inner city areas, has long faced deliberate neglect, with socioeconomic challenges that have left communities not feeling safe and bereft of security, housing, health, education and community centres. The...

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: We are banging our heads off the wall.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: And the HSE.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: The Traveller community and Traveller women are marginalised. With addiction, there is no hierarchy. It is not a case of women versus men. The statistics are stark. The two commonalities are State neglect and poverty, which have a traumatic and unfathomable effect on all of the communities we have talked about here today. I will make a few comments. It is great that people are trying....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Answer the question.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Of the many laughable statements and assertions made by Fine Gael in yesterday's budget press release, the most pathetic was from the "Beyond GDP - Quality of Life Assessment" section. According to it, "wealth inequality in Ireland has declined over time, reflecting rising assets for those in the middle of the wealth distribution and falling liabilities for those at the bottom." It also...

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Their belonging.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: To go back to the idea of the family and kids being fractured and sent to different places, either through placement or in different houses to be reared, studies published at the beginning of the year state that siblings have much more of an influence on who we become and how we are as we grow than our parents at times. That connection has to be there. With our parents, there is a life...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Deputy Daly and I do not often agree. In fact, we very rarely agree, but I say "Well done". He articulated the concerns for this generation - our new generation - going forward with the explosion of AI and social media and all that stuff that is really scary. It is good, but most of it is scary for young minds and bodies. We really need to grab hold of it. I ask the Minister of State to...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Am I finished now?

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Okay. Very quickly, then, I just wanted to say-----

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: -----that mental well-being is a community concern.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: In September, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of The Tree of Hope. It is community, not necessarily professional. It has to be me, you and everybody.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: That went very quickly.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: What does that mean?

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: I remind the Minister of State of the issues I raised in respect of Crumlin hospital.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: I thank everybody for their presentations and their thoughtfulness for those that we need to be thoughtful for and care for. This meeting is being held at a good time. It is International Kinship Care Week and yesterday was World Mental Health Day. All those things are so mixed up together. I have a few comments and questions. I ask the witnesses to forgive me if I fly off in different...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether national guidance exists for social housing tenants and applicants fleeing domestic, sexual, and gender violence to another local jurisdiction; whether he is aware that local authority councils are instructing those abuse survivor transfer applicants to return to their original jurisdiction where they may not have a...