Results 1,321-1,340 of 2,041 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: That does not count in the mathematics.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: No, it is an increase in the number of nurse managers but not an increase in the number of staff.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: No, it is not.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I had to make that point because it is a fudge.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The main deficiency in our healthcare system is the absence of universal healthcare. I support Senator Boyhan raising this in the debate. Sinn Féin repeatedly raises the inherent inequality in our health system during these debates every year and each year the inherent inequality has been allowed to flourish. Rather than navigating a way out of reliance on a two-tier system, it...
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Not all citizens.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Communism.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Dementia Strategy (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Leas-Chathaoirleach is very generous.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Dementia Strategy (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: We have worked hard together as a group. Today we made a decision to focus on the estimated 4,000 people who develop dementia each year. That is at least 11 people per day. Those are not my estimates; they come from the HSE's Understand Together information campaign. Each one of these 11 people and their families need access to a dementia adviser to support them as they embark on their...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Dementia Strategy (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: As a member of the all-party Oireachtas group, I am acutely aware of the lack of equity. Sinn Féin's budget submission strongly advised the Government to provide funding for an increased allocation for dementia advice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Fianna Fáil was asleep but it has woken up with the threat of an election in the air and good for it.I want to talk about air pollution and climate change. A poor whale was washed up in Indonesia with 6 kg of plastic - including 25 plastic cups, 115 plastic bags and flip-flops - inside it. I do not know if there was a human attached to the flip-flops. Our air, sea and land are exposed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: It is rude.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: That is not good language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have just a few observations. I have asked this question before but I did not get a straight answer. Dr. Aubert spoke about trees as carbon sinks. I am interested in trees or plants that are most effective as carbon sinks. In Ireland we have forests of conifers. I do not believe they are as effective as carbon sinks. Have any studies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The University of California-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Is it an urban myth that they promote this as evidence-based research in the University of California and in Australia? The change of lifestyle is also very important. Agriculture is not just about livestock. It is also about horticulture and the production of good quality vegetables and fruit that can be our main diet if we change our lifestyles. The next generation coming up is much...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 1:In page 6, between lines 47 and 48, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 3 of Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 1996 5.Section 3 of the Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 1996 is amended by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (3):“(4) The Board shall furnish the Health Insurance Authority and the Minister...
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Máire Devine: That is okay.