Results 21-40 of 2,035 for speaker:Máire Devine

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Fair play to you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Listen to the defensiveness.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Protect people. That is the job the Government is meant to do.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: I welcome Mark and his family here. The family named her well as her name is Cara, a friend, and she has become a true friend to not just her brothers but to many in this country hoping for change and the delivery of care that the Government has failed to do. It has failed the children in my constituency and across this nation. It is a clear breach of the Disability Act and more than...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Congratulations. The last committee I was on - from 2016 to 2020 - was the mental health committee as a then Senator. I am look forward to getting to know the facts and figures of budgetary matters, being informed, making decisions and working collaboratively. I do not mean to be a grouch but it feels male dominated here. I wonder what the makeup of the committee is and whether it has...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Not one from another party. I am not being picky but, lads, come on.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s Awaab’s Law, which sets legal time limits for the remediation of serious health hazards, such as damp and mould in social housing; and if he will respond to the findings of the recent Trinity College Dublin and The Liberties Community...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Urban Development (13 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 87. To ask the Taoiseach with respect to the taskforce for Dublin, if the Liberties area of Dublin 8 is included in the 'Rejuvenating our Capital City Centre' section of the Programme for Government; if elements of this section, including the launch of an urban communities initiative to revitalise disadvantage city areas and consider the appropriate concentration of services in the city...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cummins for bringing this motion to the Dáil. It is a topic I hold dear to my heart. In my personal experience with my own children, I had little choice when I lived in Belfast prior to the Good Friday Agreement. I sent my children to the local Catholic school, particularly for protection at that time, given what was going on and the attacks on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for evidence of proactive steps being taken to improve the long driving test waiting times at Dublin-area testing centres; and the average waiting times per month from January 2024 through April 2025 inclusive, in tabular form. [22655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the local residents’ opposition to the National Transport Authority’s plans to halt left-turns out of an estate in Dublin (details supplied); if he has been given a petition from the residents outlining their opposition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22654/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Máire Devine: The early years education system in our country is broken. There are thousands of children languishing on lists for places that parents can pay up to €1,000 per month to early years educators who themselves are underpaid and undervalued by this and successive Governments. In the past, the subsidies the Government introduced were welcome but turned out to be cumbersome, off-putting...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the situation of an Irish citizen abroad (details supplied); to ask whether he and his Department can assist. [22394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: General Register Office (7 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 224. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which the 1924 civil births, 1954 civil marriages, and 1974 civil deaths will be published and when the death register images for 1864-1871 will be published, on a website (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 505. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the contact details for the office of the chief nursing officer for official purposes, as they do not seem to be readily available. [22433/25]

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Máire Devine: Deputy Cleere has gone but there is a time and a place for congratulations.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Máire Devine: This is a sensitive, distressing and very damaging space we need to talk about. I am not a begrudger but this is not the most appropriate place to congratulate a camogie team. I will start with something I have worked with all my life. The oath medics take is "first, do no harm". It has been proved CHI and those involved have done absolutely horrific harm. Harm has been done to our...

Children’s Health (Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (29 Apr 2025)

Máire Devine: I have been involved in this children's hospital saga since its conception in 2015. I have witnessed much of St. James's Hospital, also known as the South Dublin Union, giving way to development. Gone are the 16 weeping willows planted in 1966 and it was disappointing not to see the flag hoisted this weekend. The children's hospital illuminates my street and the surrounds of Rialto and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (29 Apr 2025)

Máire Devine: 627. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each OPW heritage site has a facility to accept credit or debit card for payments where there is an admission fee to gain entry to the heritage site. [18975/25]