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Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"Monitoring of premiums 7.Following the commencement of this Act, the Health Insurance Authority shall monitor and report on the increase in premiums of private health insurance due to this legislation, to the Minister for Health, before the next amendment of the Principal Act with regard to Risk Equalisation...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Senator Coffey is always attacking Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I second Senator Gavan's amendment to the Order of Business. I will take no lectures from Senator Coffey. He says the same thing day in and day out.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He is more disgruntled than usual. I suggest that Fine Gael Senators did not wish to get out of the bed this morning because of the news, and perhaps that has been the case for the past week. Perhaps Senator Coffey should just go back to bed because his disgruntlement is a bit unnecessary.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Perhaps they need a bit more of a rest given the rattling they had over the past week. I wish to raise the issue of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. There has been an increase, not a decrease, of 3.5% according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is having a grave effect on public health. Fifty years of progression in public health and disease elimination is threatened as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Fianna Fáil is on the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Happy together again.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: That was corrected although the email was received by gardaí.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader should be ashamed of himself. His skin is incredible. He is defending the indefensible.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He should answer for his own actions.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator should go back to bed; he might wake up in better form.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: This Finance Bill, which puts into practice the measures announced in budget 2018, is another result of the effective coalition, recently matched up again, between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is a missed opportunity, where tax cuts were championed ahead of investments in key services that could begin to address the crises in health, housing and education. Apart from the objections...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I feel this is my day.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: No.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for taking this Commencement matter. I am here to make a personal representation for the family of Ms Mary Baker. Mary is 80 years old and went to St. James's Hospital in August with a chest infection, ending up with a broken back, leading to paralysis from the waist down.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Okay. The family is here so they are okay with it.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Mary was at five years old put into institutional care, along with her small sister of two years old. She had an horrific childhood, with horrors we can only imagine and which we have heard of through the years about the Magdalen laundries. She protected her small sister and got out of there at the age of 16, never to return. She married happily and has children of her own. She is blind....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly. I refer to his reference to a location of their choosing. This woman chooses to go home to a familiar environment where there is family involvement and they can dovetail in with a home care package. I could go on. Her daughter lives with her, other daughters and sons live in the vicinity and they already have made alterations to their...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: It is a bit early for Christmas for me. I ask the Seanad to amend the Order of Business to ask the Taoiseach to come in to give an account, to quote his own words, of this dysfunctional Government's handling of one the biggest critical and moral crises to face a Government in many years.