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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State. This issue relates to the Cherry Orchard campus in Dublin 10. My last Commencement matter on it was in July and dealt with by the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly. It was tabled in response to desperation and queries from patients - children - their families, the staff and others at the coalface with experience of how day services were being shut down....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I also pay tribute to the staff working at the coalface. They have the solutions, as was clear in the case of the closure of the day programme at Linn Dara when they were ignored. Around 80% of A Vision for Change has not been implemented. This is especially glaring in the delivery of child and adolescent mental health services. We are spending €300,000 per week or €3.2...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I want to follow up on yesterday's Order of Business and I can confirm that the nurses' unions have recommended that their members reject the disappointing Government pay proposals which do not address the emergency of recruitment and retention in the health service. Members will be balloted over the next three weeks with a further ballot about industrial action. That is always a serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I am sorry I missed a good bit of the discussion but it cannot be helped. It is apt that members of the public service pay commission on the health sector are before us today when the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, are meeting to discuss the commission's report. The commission ignored recruitment and retention in their report...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I raise the issue of the Public Service Pay Commission. The Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, are meeting today to discuss the findings of Public Service Pay Commission and figure out how we can correct the problem of more than 2,000 vacancies throughout the nursing profession. The Public Service Pay Commission has stated that...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: Another vote of no confidence.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: We have set out the policies but Senator Buttimer ignores them.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: The discussion goes nowhere because the Senator is not prepared to read our policies.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: We have costed our policy more than Fine Gael has.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: It is costed by the Department of Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: Recruitment and retention was ignored and dismissed by the Public Service Pay Commission.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: The report from the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care states that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: They dread coming home.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I want the Leader's response to contain a measure of honesty and acknowledgement.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: Is it?

Seanad: Inclusion in Sport: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: We all know that sport is hugely beneficial to communities across this State. Sinn Féin recognises the importance of sport in our society. Our country has a strong tradition of sporting excellence in Gaelic games, provincial and international rugby, athletics, boxing and, hopefully, soccer. Sport benefits our mental and physical health and inspires confidence in our young people. It...

Seanad: Inclusion in Sport: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Inclusion in Sport: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: But not all 32 counties.

Seanad: Inclusion in Sport: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: No. I thought the Leader was-----