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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: We need accountability and responsibility. Fianna Fáil is not able to do its job.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I raise the matter of tomorrow's strike involving paramedics which is another one concerning the health sector. The National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, started on 22 January this year and I tabled a Commencement matter on this issue. These are the paramedics who have joined a branch of the PNA, which is called NASRA. They have left their previous trade union. Of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: It was raised previously.

Seanad: Loneliness Task Force Report: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. Students from the Mercy School in Cork who were present in the Visitors Gallery have left. They were promoting intergenerational communication which prevents loneliness. Intergenerational friendship is where people try to reach out to different people and become friends. Ireland today is very different from the Ireland of...

Seanad: Loneliness Task Force Report: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: We now have gated communities in which people live in locked environments. The social fabric of the country has changed beyond recognition.We have had rapid advances in technology, in particular over the past 20 or 25 years, which have made us more detached as humans. As for friends on Facebook, my God, I have 5,000. I am very happy with that but I do not know one of them. Eye contact,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: They are.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I salute my colleagues, the nurses and midwives of Ireland, following their great successful rally on Saturday and the extraordinary support of the public through the streets of Dublin. It was almost like a festival or carnival everywhere they were celebrated. I want to ask Senator Clifford-Lee and her colleagues where they were. Where were they to support the nurses? They all seemed to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: At the rally there was no sign of anyone from Fianna Fáil whatsoever.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: There was not a sign or any presence of Fianna Fáil one way or the other at the rally.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I want to know where they all were.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I think the 50,000 people and the public who were there on Saturday will want to know why. They were questioning where they were and why they were not there.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: The Senator should go and answer to those 50,000 who were asking that question.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Okay, I will do so. Gabh mo leithscéal.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: This morning, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, said on his way that he was going into the Cabinet to put before it the proposals by the Labour Court that saw the suspension of the industrial action, including this strike and the three days due. I put it to the Minister that it is not really up to the Cabinet to agree or disagree to this. It is up to the 50,000 members of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: They reckon that because Brexit is coming they cannot upset the nation.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: The two-year period of Brexit is extended-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: The excuse we are getting is that Brexit is coming.Brexit is going to probably extend it by two years. We wait then. Is this the excuse until the polls are in-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: -----their proper order and the atmosphere is correct?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: There is no point.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: That is not true. The Senator should get his facts right. He stands up all the time and does not know the facts.