Results 921-940 of 2,035 for speaker:Máire Devine

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the passing of this Bill and I welcome the speed with which the National Children's Hospital is being delivered, given the difficulties in the area. I tabled 51 amendments because I have examined this Bill from head to toe and there are areas in it that needed tweaking and strengthening. I did this so as to improve this Bill, to try to explain it to people and to try to make it...

Seanad: Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Sep 2018)

Máire Devine: I have been here for over two years and in learning how the Oireachtas works, it is great to see that impetus can be given to something that is so urgent. We are often depleted by the slowness of legislation. This Bill is of utmost importance in that the courts have asked that this be done. It is a human and civil rights issue. In treating mental health we went from the Lunacy Asylums Act...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I attended the presentation in the Royal Hibernian Academy; there was a bit of a to-do there also. I have several questions. The consultation has been pushed out to 28 September. That is unacceptable because half of the people of Dublin will not be around for the majority of that time. The city is empty. If I want to be cynical I could say this happens frequently, either over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: When will they be available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Is there a deadline for implementation which would explain why the public consultation is so condensed or, perhaps more accurately, being held at the wrong time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Dublin Bus still has the slogan of "serving the entire community". It is still on the back of the double deckers in Dublin. I remember the imp buses very well too. The witness referred to the national children's hospital - I live in its shadow - and how it will be impacted. There are stops on the Luas red line in Rialto and in St. James's Hospital. The hospital is packed with cars...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I am quite suspicious about whether it is a question of having this plan or no plan and whether the money would then disappear. The committee should tease that one out with the NTA as well because it is almost akin to a threat-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Almost 2 million yes.

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-----