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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their presentations. I am very interested in being educated on telepsychiatry. We need to factor in body language, non-verbal communication and the demeanour of the individual. These are much more important than verbal communications in making an assessment. The spend on agency staff for the months of January, February and March of 2018 was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: My comment on the statement by the HSE on Linn Dara was directed at the Minister of State. My questions on the Traveller community were directed at both Ministers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I asked about the grade 7 posts in the various community healthcare organisation areas for which interviews have been held.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Interviews were held in February.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Yes. I thought the interviews were in February.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Has there been any interest yet?

Seanad: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Sinn Féin believes in the full abolition of mandatory retirement. Our Bill, the Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016 is currently on Committee Stage in the Dáil, and would completely remove an age of retirement. This time last year, the Citizens' Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of abolishing mandatory retirement on the basis of age with a...

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.

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

Máire Devine: The storm delayed me.

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

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 4:In page 8, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(2) Children’s Health Ireland shall guarantee that there shall be no non-medical influence in the clinical operations of the hospital within the laws of the State.”. Gabh mo leithscéal, Storm Ali has delayed me. I have tabled this amendment in order to hear what the Government has to...

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

Máire Devine: I want to respond to my colleague, Senator Ardagh. She knows that my heart and soul, and that of my party, is in providing a children's hospital. It is probably disingenuous of her to say that we are seeking to delay the Bill. It is not about delaying the Bill - it is about making it a better Bill. That is what we are here to do and it involves proposing amendments. I note that the...

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

Máire Devine: I am happy to withdraw the amendment. My rephrasing or interpretation of what the Minister of State has said is that there will be no non-medical influences in the running of the national children's hospital.

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

Máire Devine: That is agreed. I will withdraw the amendment on that basis.

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

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, to delete lines 24 to 26. I understand the need to provide for the hospital to be able to borrow for capital purposes against its income and assets. Such a provision is used by many universities and other institutions across the State. However, I do not see why the hospital would need to borrow for current purposes, given that the State should be funding...

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

Máire Devine: Yes. I wonder what Sláintecare will think of this philanthropy and the dependence on corporate private funding for our children's health. This is ideologically driven. The health of our nation, in particular that of our children who will be in the wonderful flagship building which is going up in my neighbourhood, should not be dependent on scrambling for the scraps offered by...