Results 21-40 of 2,101 for speaker:Máire Devine

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: I met some of the witnesses when Deputy Graves had the recovery month event last week or the week before. It was related to the very positive idea that recovery is possible. We often get bogged down in such negativity and I think that sometimes adds to the stigma. The witnesses are grappling for services all the time and they all seem to carry a heavy load. I also thank them for their...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: Energy is a big factor in a lot of poverty. The regulator reckons that more than half a million people are in debt and cannot pay their bills. The biggest users of energy in this country are the data centres. Their usage is rising and rising and with that comes extra cost to the domestic consumer and their electricity bill. The regulator reckons that ordinary people's bills will increase...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: Chair, that is disgraceful. A point of order.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: Democracy, like?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: Chair, he should withdraw those remarks about democracy and making amendments and that we actually impinged on this question-and-answer session. It is really crass, really poor form-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: -----and unintelligent.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: Deputy Devine.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: It is okay, I forgive the Cathaoirleach. Céad míle fáilte to our witnesses. What came across today is the tender loving care that is being given to our most vulnerable kids. All kids deserve it but it is often lacking in what should be a secure place: a home. I need to announce my partisanship here, which is that I am on the board of St. James's Primary School, which was my...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I have two points to address and will probably comment as well as asking questions. We are all well aware of the transatlantic upheavals, to put it that way, the multinationals and our dependency on pharma, ICT, AerCap, the Googles and Microsofts and so on. It came home to roost. It was dangled over us in 2016 during the first Trump...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: The witnesses tut-tutted the €9.4 billion budget coming in a couple of weeks. I will just leave that there. They think that package is too large. Going back to the point on loose fiscal policy, under the heading, "Supporting long-term prosperity", the witnesses' opening statement points out that a credible financial anchor was capital spending. Capital spending on infrastructure...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: If Dr. Kelly was cutting it at one side, would he not just bank it into the capital spend?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: 573. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting for an assessment to be carried out or a date for the assessment to be scheduled; the position of the child on the list; the timeframe for the assessment to be completed; and the urgent steps that will be taken to expedite same. [50319/25]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: The "degree of looseness" in the run-up to the election of 2024 was mentioned. I like it. It is a nice, polite phrase. Coming from an Opposition party, I would call it a sweetener for getting votes. It was also trying to pull the wool over people's eyes, which sometimes they do successfully. The population is set to increase, they reckon, almost to 7 million, on a good day or a bad day...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: I only have 11 seconds left.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: I do not mean to be rude here, but would the ESRI say that it had failed to influence the Government to do this longer term output, if the ESRI was set up to do that, diagnose the output and perform a deep dive into it?

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: I do not doubt the Minister of State's sincerity. I believe he is sincere about trying to resolve this, but with all due respect, his response did not reflect the experience of people on the ground. Why else would these mammies and daddies be in the Gallery tonight? Céad míle fáilte to them for keeping up the good fight. It is like déja vu. I stood here in February...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: 1618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for the total number of emergency phone calls received by An Garda Síochána relating to domestic, sexual, and gender based violence in 2022, 2023, and 2024, including but not limited, to coercive control, breach of interim barring order, breach of protection order, breach of barring order, breach of safety order,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: 1619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for the total number of arrests made by An Garda Síochána relating to domestic, sexual, and gender based violence in 2022, 2023, and 2024, including but not limited to coercive control, breach of interim barring order, breach of protection order, breach of barring order, breach of safety order, breach of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (8 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: 1620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for the total number of prosecutions initiated relating to domestic, sexual, and gender based violence in 2022, 2023, and 2024, including but not limited to coercive control, breach of interim barring order, breach of protection order, breach of barring order, breach of safety order, breach of emergency barring order, and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (8 Sep 2025)

Máire Devine: 1621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for the total number of convictions relating to domestic, sexual, and gender based violence in 2022, 2023, and 2024, including but not limited to coercive control, breach of interim barring order, breach of protection order, breach of barring order, breach of safety order, breach of emergency barring order, and any incident...