Results 681-700 of 1,982 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: This is to do with the lack of bed capacity and investment. Do Senators know anybody in the system who has not worked 24-7? Many of us gave up our Christmases with our children to go into the hospital. We have almost had our dinners at 6 a.m. to go to the hospital to take care of people, yet we are now told we cannot have Christmas because it is our fault that the system is a failure. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Nobody will come back to this country with that sort of attitude. Leo and Simon are grinches, bad Santas, bad humbugs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Leas-Chathaoirleach should stand up for himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Come on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: What interpretation and by whom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: That is disgraceful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Taoiseach used them as a political football to cover up the lack of-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I am sorry, but-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: On what? Why?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Do not stand there and try to make it up and say I-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Leader is agreeing with the cancelling of-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: It is right to take time off to be with family over Christmas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Why? It is not as simple as that.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Industrial Disputes (7 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad. I raise this issue on the day 500 ambulance personnel refuse to work additional shifts. Hopefully, we can address the current industrial relations issues between the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, and the HSE. The situation is escalating with an increasing number of ambulance...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Industrial Disputes (7 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State. If it is not a legal right, is it illegal to join a union of one's choice? It seems this is a dogfight, with SIPTU and the HSE cosily together on one side and, on the other, up to 500 members who have decided that they do not want to belong to that representative body and they have asked other people to represent them. They have represented them hundreds of...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: We welcome the Bill which we have discussed at length in this House on different occasions and it is about time that changes take place in the HSE. The two patient advocates is a great idea but I take on board Senator Ruane's point about whether the high standard of professionalism omits and disqualifies others from being a member of that board. It is prudent and best practice to have these...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: It was with dismay I saw that there are 180 Committee Stage amendments to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018. There is public disgust about these amendments. I am also disgusted about them. Let us take one in particular. It is impossible to carry out a burial of remains before 12 weeks. There are no remains. It is just menstrual blood. Are we going to follow...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I am speaking for the public. I am speaking about the dismay and the last sting of eight dying wasps-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I will leave the there. I also wanted to raise the statement issued by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, earlier to the effect that the nurses and midwives will be balloted on all-out strike action, commencing with a 24-hour all-out strike and building up over time. The ballot will be held over the next few weeks. At issue here are understaffing in the health service and...