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Seanad: Property Services (Advertisement of Unfit Lettings) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: I second the Bill. I welcome the Minister of State to the House and say, "Well done", to Senator Warfield for his action on this issue. All Members have been aware of the prevalence of this issue since the downturn in 2007 or 2008. Families had to move back in together, with children moving back to their parents' house or trying to find rental accommodation which has become increasingly...

Seanad: Property Services (Advertisement of Unfit Lettings) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: The Government will need a seconder.

Seanad: Property Services (Advertisement of Unfit Lettings) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Will they? Cá bhfuil Fine Gael?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Whenever BusConnects occurs, it will need its own schedule given that the greater Dublin area is involved. Already 30,000 submissions have gone in for phase 1 and they obviously have not gotten through those. Phase 2 is open for submissions on 30 April and I would imagine there will be as many if not more submissions. It would be a seven-year plan if it was implemented tomorrow but it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: I will change that today.

Seanad: Transport Matters: Statements (4 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. By 2045, the population of cities worldwide is projected to grow to 7 billion, of a worldwide total of 10 billion, which would account for 70% of the total population. According to the CSO's figures, there is no reason for Dublin to be exempt as at least 3 million people will live in Dublin by 2045. Planning for the future of the cities and transport,...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: The exchanges in the Dáil between the Minister and other political parties, including my party, Sinn Féin, on the handling of the appointment of a noise regulator for Dublin Airport struck me as quite shambolic. It is incredible that the Minister has dithered on such an important issue, particularly to the local community and the airport authorities. Certainty and confidence in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit chuig an Seanad. It is timely that he is taking this Commencement matter on World Autism Awareness Day and I thank him for coming into the House. This morning, I joined a group of approximately 40 parents and grandparents in Crumlin, Dublin 12. We have been campaigning for quite a long time for extensions to the services provided for their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: I am interested in the Minister of State's comment on the review of the policy. Will he or the relevant officials email me with an update on it and on when it will happen? It is an urgent matter. The Department should examine the waiting lists and the desperation of parents because the current teacher training is inadequate and is not fit for purpose for the number of children whom...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: I thank the Cathaoirleach, I was waiting there for ages. I wish to echo the sentiments of Senator Ardagh when she referred to Prime Minister Ardern. She is one strong woman. She has shown the world that it is possible to react urgently to the needs of people, in this case with the gun safety in her country because her paramount position and job description is to protect the people of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Máire Devine: Stop it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: We are all very aware of the fragility in the negotiations regarding the United Kingdom and Brexit. I remind Senator Feighan that his party and Fianna Fáil are picking the leftovers of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP. It has been that party's continuous position that there should be a poll after Britain withdraws from the European Union, which could happen two weeks from...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: We have had this discussion for the last three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: I have a technical question. The Chairman said it was a cross-party amendment. Who is the other party to this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: I would like to have known. If it has cross-party support, it is the first I have known of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: It is only on the screen this second. It is not on the piece of paper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: We have worked collaboratively and it has been a great experience. At the beginning of the meeting, however, when I entered the room, I learned that Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party and the Green Party have connived because it is not a cross-party amendment but rather one created by those four parties in an attempt to alienate the Sinn Féin members and perhaps one or two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: It may have been professional, scientific advice but it did not take this situation into account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Máire Devine: As the seconder of Deputy Stanley's amendment, I endorse it, but I also want to respond to Senator Lombard in the correct manner. We had before us professionals to whom we all listened and some of them told us that a carbon tax might prove useful. We also carried out our own research and the jury is still out on the issue which we have spent eight or nine months discussing. Regardless, the...