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Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: So that is it then. They are gone into the ether.

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: My amendments are okay.

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: Both of these amendments pertain to the Childcare Support Act 2018, which was alluded to by the Minister. The Bill provides for British citizens to access the national childcare scheme on the same basis as Irish citizens and assesses British citizens in the same manner as the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004, which states that a British citizen means a citizen of the United Kingdom...

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I need to go through it with more of a fine-tooth comb. I will not press it to a vote but I thank the Minister of State for the explanation.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: We support amendment No. 16. No person should be forced into getting a public services card to make a transaction. We note, as Senator Higgins said, that the Data Protection Commission has ruled that an obligation for anybody other than the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is illegal and cannot happen, but that this seems to have been ignored by the Department of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: Sinn Féin supports this amendment. A child turns 14 and this is the most expensive time of a parent's life where he or she is crucified with costs for socialising, etc. Children learn to socialise and get out there at that age and they probably get up to stuff they should not be doing. It is a massive cost for the parent and for a lone parent to feel these cuts and not allow children...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I am sorry-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: Mental Health Week is kicking off today with events throughout the country. This morning, I attended the Oireachtas health and well-being team's information and coffee morning. The team will roll out events for Members and staff. I urge everyone to attend when information on them is put up on the Plinth website. It is concerning that, during world mental health week, the Government failed...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I second Senator Nash's amendment to the Order of Business. This morning I attended a presentation made by Senator Freeman in the AV room on the Children's Digital Protection Bill which we discussed last year and has reached Committee Stage. Its purpose is to safeguard children exposed to legal but harmful and age inappropriate web content and place responsibility on the hosts for the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2019: First Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I second the motion.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I commend Senator Freeman on getting the Bill to Committee Stage. I spoke in support of it on Second Stage. On the section, we need to try to do something about social media. Much of the work done on it is piecemeal because it is such a massive area that one can throw up one's hands and ask where one should start. Senator Freeman has started with the protection of the most vulnerable. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: There has been mention of a 70 year old farmer who might find it very difficult to make the transition. Has there been much engagement with the younger cohort, which may well be more positive about a transition that would improve the land as a carbon sink? I know Professor FitzGerald does not wish to talk about the dietary aspects but that research is important. In my niece's school and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I am not advocating that Professor FitzGerald should do it. I am just saying this revolution in dietary habits is coming from the younger population.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: If Senator Mulherin was in government, she might be able to do something about the insupportable CAMHS waiting lists that are leading to the neglect of our children and their health and well-being but sin scéal eile. I wish to raise the Shannon LNG project. It is on the list of projects to be confirmed today by the EU. Along with other members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: There is much other stuff.

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte arís roimh an Aire. I have been hunting the Minister down, as it were, but unfortunately for a while now I have not been able to bring back the bacon, so to speak, on the questions and responses I try to elicit. On the capital plan for the HSE, some UCD academics revealed just days ago the growing number of private hospital beds as public facilities dwindle. This...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: I think the Senator might like to talk to the locals within a mile radius of the national children's hospital-----

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: -----construction site instead of taking the P-I-S-S out of their concerns. Shame on the Senator. I would like some further clarification from the Minister on the national children's hospital. Do we know yet what the costs will be for outfitting? What about the required IT systems? BAM went under the banner, which was recently taken down, of the Considerate Constructors' scheme. Its...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Máire Devine: He should do it today.