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

Máire Devine: Who would that be?

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

Máire Devine: It is called accountability.

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

Máire Devine: On a point of order, I did not say that.

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

Máire Devine: I know more about the issue than the Leader is suggesting.

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

Máire Devine: In any case, the Leader was wrong.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister. I am speaking on this debate on behalf of my colleague, Senator Mac Lochlainn, who is on Government business. I thank the Minister for bringing forward this Bill to introduce changes to how the Personal Injuries Assessment Board works. It is a small step in addressing the escalating insurance costs, which are really hurting motoring and business owners across...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter. The bones of the issue are really simple. The HSE conducted interviews for the position of medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma at St. Vincent's University Hospital on Tuesday, 14 March 2017. Now we are informed that a successful candidate from that process is due to start in the summer of 2019. Should the sarcoma...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: It is implicit in my matter. The Minister of State should have known that these questions were-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for his comments but he has chastised me by suggesting ways for me to table questions. The Minister for Health knows the details and history behind this matter. He created this post following the tenacious efforts of the Sarcoma Action & Support Group, which comprises feeble and physically ill individuals. He knows that a vacancy has existed for three...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Nurses and midwives will be joined in industrial action next week by psychiatric nurses, which will bring the total to 50,000 nurses. Some 500 paramedics from the ambulance service are also coming out next week so it is looking like a spring of discontent. The psychiatric nurses are members of my union and the issues are pay, terms and conditions and the mental health budget. Last year,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: It is bad public policy.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: Health is an issue we cannot get away from. Why should we? The health system is a shambles and always has been but it is more than that now. It is an embarrassment. Yesterday, the Leader accused many of the Members who spoke about the national children's hospital of being hysterical.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: I would call a €2 billion overspend hysterical. I would call the need to overhaul the capital projects contained in Project Ireland 2040-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: This is the Order of Business. The GPs will be standing outside Leinster House this afternoon. The nurses are on strike and the members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, will be joining them next week. We have the longest waiting lists in Europe.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: We have a Minister who does not know what he is doing while Fianna Fáil members are sitting around like gillies. I do not know if Senators understand the term but it is a Dublin way of referring to patsies. The Fianna Fáil Party has maintained the confidence and supply agreement but did not ask about or was not made aware of the situation. Are its members not feeling stung by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: -----about the €2 billion overspend relating to the national children's hospital. This is not hysteria. In psychological terms, what the Leader is doing is transference. I suggest he looks that up.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Máire Devine: The Leader said that yesterday.