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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for her attendance. On behalf of the nurses, midwives, medics and health care staff, I welcome the Minister of State to her post and hope to work collaboratively with her and the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris. I am raising the issue of the pending first phase of industrial action next week by the Psychiatric Nurses Association. I ask the Minister of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I do not want to be negative, but I have been involved in this game for a long time. In the 1990s the level of funding for mental health services was 14%. It is now somewhere in the region of less than 6%. I become cynical when I hear that it will be increased by 5.2% and when talk year after year of the figures of €41 million and €35 million. We never actually get our hands...

Seanad: Health: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I wish to share time with Senator Ó Donnghaile. We could form a multidisciplinary team in the House. We have GPs, mental health advocates, registered nurses, addiction and disability advocates among us. I ask the Minster to please include us on the health committee. I welcome the Minister of State. Some would commiserate with her on what is perceived as a poisoned chalice but,...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: This is my first time speaking in the House. I send my support, solidarity and love to the victims in Orlando. This is carers' week. I acknowledge the hard work these people do day in day out, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, looking after their loved ones, and the struggle they have accessing facilities and resources. I also pay a tribute to the over 100,000 of my colleagues, nurses...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: Mná na hÉireann.

Seanad: Poverty and Homelessness: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear. Well done. I wish to share time with Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Poverty and Homelessness: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I echo the passionate comments of Senators Boyhan and Ó Clochartaigh. We are a society beyond crisis and in an emergency that is only growing. We have had at least two years of emergency and it seems we have done nothing but grind to a halt. As public representatives we have a moral responsibility to demand adequate resources to guarantee the provision of homes for our people....