Results 881-900 of 1,982 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I asked about the grade 7 posts in the various community healthcare organisation areas for which interviews have been held.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: Interviews were held in February.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: Yes. I thought the interviews were in February.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: Has there been any interest yet?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, to the House. I am delighted he is taking the matter. We have had issues every now and then with people not being in a position to give responses to supplementary contributions. I hope the Minister of State will respond to me today. I have put in a question about the closure of day programme at Linn Dara at 4 p.m. last Friday. My...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: The Minister of State has given the same reply as that given by his colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath, the last evening. I implore the Minister of State to, please, change his script and find a way to resolve the matter. He has mentioned that a "small number" of young people are involved. The CAMHS service covers a region with a population...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I have-----
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: No, I mentioned them three times. I mentioned parents and children.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: If need be, we can check the transcript.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: The Minister of State does not need to get personal.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I referred to the Joint Committee on Future of Mental Health Care. I urge the Minister of State not to get personal, as it just shows that he has a defeatist attitude. I implore the Leas-Chathaoirleach to ask the Minister of State to desist from making personal attacks.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: For which I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: No, I will not withdraw my comment. I thank the Minister of State for his reply.
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I will try to do a Senator David Norris and bring a bit of culture to the discussion. I got the following poem from Palestinian women on the recent International Women's Day. It is called Here We Will Stay. It reads:In Lidda, in Ramla, in the Galilee, we shall remain like a wall upon your chest, and in your throat like a shard of glass, a cactus thorn, and in your eyes a sandstorm. We...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: That is fine. I was just conversing with my colleague. I will raise two issues, the first of which is the closure of Linn Dara child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, in Cherry Orchard. This day service programme was closed on a hush-hush basis on Friday. That means there will be no day programme services for child and adolescents suffering with mental health throughout the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: That is because the Leader was talking, but I will forgive him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: It is Linn Dara CAMHS.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: It is not, it is a day programme service. I wish Members would stop interrupting me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: Can I start again?
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: I wish to again raise the case of Emma Mhic Mhathúna. As we know, cancer has spread to her brain. She, this brave warrior for Ireland and Irish women, is using her compensation money and calling out for cytologists and the use of the laboratories in universities that are quiet over the summer period. In her own words, "there's no point in waiting for CervicalCheck - we need to ... [do...