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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: We need accountability and responsibility. Fianna Fáil is not able to do its job.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I raise the matter of tomorrow's strike involving paramedics which is another one concerning the health sector. The National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, started on 22 January this year and I tabled a Commencement matter on this issue. These are the paramedics who have joined a branch of the PNA, which is called NASRA. They have left their previous trade union. Of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: It was raised previously.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I want to be even-handed with the Fianna Fáil leader, Senator Ardagh, but I lived on the Ormeau Road for over 11 years and I raised my family there. The friends and neighbours who were shot on the Ormeau Road were my friends and my neighbours. We knew when we gathered in the Hatfield House that night, in mourning, in grief and in shock, that something was amiss with the activity of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Why?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Choose between marriage equality and caring about equality.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: What will they do with the hiding of evidence?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: There is no evidence.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I hope the people of the North are listening.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: It is.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I will press it.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Oh my God. That is dreadful.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: He is still talking. He said that he would not be long.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I wish to raise awareness of the mental health legislation and the revised heads of Bills. On Thursday last, the Mental Health Commission said it would intervene robustly in any areas or approved centres that are not protecting patients' human rights and operating a substandard service. Fines of €5,000 were imposed after the Mental Health Commission took the first prosecution of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Policy (28 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: For more than one year, the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care, of which I was a member, carried out a great deal of work investigating the services in place our country, identifying problems and potential solutions and holding the HSE, Department of Health and Government to account. The committee was dissolved in October 2018, following the publication of its final...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Policy (28 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: That response is very disappointing. There are no plans to establish the committee on a permanent basis. This is contrary to statements made by Ministers while the committee was doing its work. We kept the focus on the 80 or so children who were still admitted to acute mental hospitals and the shambolic finances of the HSE when it came to the provision of mental health services in that it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I want to reiterate what Senator Freeman has said. They target children of any age from three years and I have seen young children aged three playing Gummy Bears games. There is a sweet, cuddly image but there are also "Buy More" tokens at the end of each game, and it builds up and up. This happens to children from three years of age. When my son was one of those Xbox or Playstation guys,...