Results 901-920 of 2,007 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: Sinn Féin believes in the full abolition of mandatory retirement. Our Bill, the Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016 is currently on Committee Stage in the Dáil, and would completely remove an age of retirement. This time last year, the Citizens' Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of abolishing mandatory retirement on the basis of age with a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Election of Chairman (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: How are we going to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Election of Chairman (11 Jul 2018)
Máire Devine: If 11 September is the time for the first interim report, all that we would have done by then is module 1. Is that correct?
- 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 thank the Minister and Minister of State for their presentations. I am very interested in being educated on telepsychiatry. We need to factor in body language, non-verbal communication and the demeanour of the individual. These are much more important than verbal communications in making an assessment. The spend on agency staff for the months of January, February and March of 2018 was...
- 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: My comment on the statement by the HSE on Linn Dara was directed at the Minister of State. My questions on the Traveller community were directed at both Ministers.
- 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...