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Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)

Máire Devine: I have no problem with that. There is a good deal in the report about Tusla, the allegations of rape, Sergeant McCabe's family, society and its loss of strength of feeling. What Martin Callinan did to try to undermine and discredit Sergeant McCabe was truly disgusting. I could go on about Superintendent Taylor, who is equally damaged by the report. He has internalised guilt for wrongdoing...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: It was with dismay I saw that there are 180 Committee Stage amendments to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018. There is public disgust about these amendments. I am also disgusted about them. Let us take one in particular. It is impossible to carry out a burial of remains before 12 weeks. There are no remains. It is just menstrual blood. Are we going to follow...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I am speaking for the public. I am speaking about the dismay and the last sting of eight dying wasps-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I will leave the there. I also wanted to raise the statement issued by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, earlier to the effect that the nurses and midwives will be balloted on all-out strike action, commencing with a 24-hour all-out strike and building up over time. The ballot will be held over the next few weeks. At issue here are understaffing in the health service and...

Seanad: Accessibility Issues for Voters with Disabilities: Statements (6 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit arís. It is good to see him back in the House. I also welcome the use of templates in polling stations in the recent referendums on the eighth amendment and on blasphemy, and the presidential election. It is a welcome move that allows those who are visually impaired to vote without assistance for the first time. It is allows the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Industrial Disputes (7 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad. I raise this issue on the day 500 ambulance personnel refuse to work additional shifts. Hopefully, we can address the current industrial relations issues between the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, and the HSE. The situation is escalating with an increasing number of ambulance...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Industrial Disputes (7 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State. If it is not a legal right, is it illegal to join a union of one's choice? It seems this is a dogfight, with SIPTU and the HSE cosily together on one side and, on the other, up to 500 members who have decided that they do not want to belong to that representative body and they have asked other people to represent them. They have represented them hundreds of...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: We welcome the Bill which we have discussed at length in this House on different occasions and it is about time that changes take place in the HSE. The two patient advocates is a great idea but I take on board Senator Ruane's point about whether the high standard of professionalism omits and disqualifies others from being a member of that board. It is prudent and best practice to have these...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I have to take a deep breath today. The Leader will know that my first speech in the Seanad was for the nurses of Ireland. The Taoiseach yesterday and the Minister for Health today showed they must be badly advised given their most recent decision to cancel Christmas leave for nurses and doctors. It has drawn the ire of health workers and the health unions, including the Irish Nurses and...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Maybe the Leader wants to address all these emails and telephone calls that I have got.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: I have got letters from nurses in Australia who said they had no chance of coming back.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Excuse me. Dún do bhéal le do thoil.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Nurses will not be used as a-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Correction: it was an email. The Leader should use his brain.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: This is to do with the lack of bed capacity and investment. Do Senators know anybody in the system who has not worked 24-7? Many of us gave up our Christmases with our children to go into the hospital. We have almost had our dinners at 6 a.m. to go to the hospital to take care of people, yet we are now told we cannot have Christmas because it is our fault that the system is a failure. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Nobody will come back to this country with that sort of attitude. Leo and Simon are grinches, bad Santas, bad humbugs.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: The Leas-Chathaoirleach should stand up for himself.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: Come on.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: What interpretation and by whom?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Máire Devine: That is disgraceful.