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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: There is nothing like putting them in front of the washing machine to watch the spin cycle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Medication and Talk Therapy: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I will be very quick. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. One of the witnesses mentioned that the suicide statistics decreased in the ten years after 2006. I disagree with that because it was the period of the lost decade and there was an increase in suicide in this country. Greece was first because of all the turmoil there. I disagree on that but perhaps we have caught up and...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: No more than anybody else.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I would like to point out to Senator Conway that I have my own cup. Perhaps we could all bring our own cups in the interim to try to protect the environment. Sinn Féin has raised several parliamentary questions about home help hours. In the area overseen by Community Healthcare Organisation 7, home help hours have dropped by almost 90,000 hours since 2014.It is a vital service to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: That is not the point.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Last night, a group of parents with children who are inpatients at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, along with some older children, held a candlelight vigil outside the hospital to highlight the crisis of waiting times for beds there. Ms Hazel Robinson is the parent of a 15 year old daughter with cystic fibrosis. She started this vigil because her daughter was recently...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, but I thought that the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, would have a response as well. I note that the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has announced that it will include the national children's hospital in its daily Trolley Watch and started doing so at the beginning of the year. For the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I strongly concur with the comments made by Senator Reilly. Today, I would like to refer to Irish charities. I believe that more of them are not publishing financial information on their sources of revenue and how they spend them. The majority of charities do vital work on behalf of the Government and the general public. Increasingly, some charities avail of an exemption that permits them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I suspect there is a lot of deleting ongoing.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear. Poor Waterford.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Move along.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Senators Noone and Murnane O'Connor talked about the 7,000 patient waiting list for child psychiatry services. I want both of them to be aware that we do not need to diagnose those 7,000 children. They do not need to be placed on waiting lists to see consultant psychiatrists. We just need to include well-being in our treatment of our children. We need to protect our kids and not label...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I just wanted to balance the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I know, but-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: That would have been common sense.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: Yes, they are vicious.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: I commend Deputy Browne and the Fianna Fáil Senators who are progressing this Bill through the House.I suppose this arose as a result of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, where it has been three years but it has not been enacted. Nothing can happen in any shape or form. It is holding back not just mental health reform, but also other social policy areas. We want to...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: What right has the Senator to stand up in here and say what he said?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Máire Devine: When that happens, Senator Craughwell can carry out the wishes of the people.