Results 561-580 of 2,007 for speaker:Máire Devine
- 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.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: That does not-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: The Senator is way over time.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: I will stand up when there is ciúnas. Ciúnas le do thoil. Senators are a little tetchy today but that is understandable.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: Dún do bhéal. Am I not allowed to say that?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: Senators' tetchiness today is understandable given-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: -----that we have been listening in recent days to the outrageous, gobsmacking cost of the national children's hospital. I was out with the nurses at St. James’s Hospital this morning. As Senators will know, they are out in protest. This is the first of two days that nurses will be on strike this week and next week they will be joined by the Psychiatric Nurses Association for three...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: No amount of soft spin will do it.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: I endorse the call for the Minister to come to the House to outline the further impact this project will have on the public purse and public health. Shame on the Government for what it has done.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: I am sorry, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: Yes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: That has nothing to do with it. We are being blackmailed. The public is being blackmailed.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Máire Devine: I am sorry.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)
Máire Devine: As today is strike day, I am hardly going to get up and talk about anything else. This morning, I have been around, in the cold but crisp sunshine, to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, St. James's Hospital, both the Rialto entrance and James's Street entrance, and the Coombe on Cork Street. I visited all three of them and plan to visit some more later on. I think back to 20 years...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)
Máire Devine: Take it from the budget for the national children's hospital. There is an extra €1 billion available.