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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Come on.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the safe location of the school children and their coach in a cave in Thailand. The drama is still unfolding and there are difficulties ahead but we wish them a full and successful recovery. I also wish to raise BusConnects. I attended the briefing yesterday and apparently more than 80% of Dubliners believe that change is needed for a better bus service in the capital city....

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: I like it.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Máire Devine: Could we push the public consultation out, away from the holiday period?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that non-Government motion No. 11 on the Order Paper be taken without debate before No. 1. I also wish to raise the sex offenders register. Yesterday, I heard the case of a young woman, and it is covered further today, who made her identity public recently. She was raped at 11 years of age and last year found out by chance, as she...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Yes, to be taken without debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: My brain is ticking over just thinking about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: The amendment is being pressed.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the Leader. The strike is tomorrow.

Seanad: Industrial Dispute: Motion (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I move:That Sean Éireann acknowledges that it is the failure of Lloyds Pharmacy management to adhere to a Labour Court recommendation that has precipitated the current dispute between Lloyds Pharmacy management and the workers of Lloyds Pharmacy; - condemns Lloyds Pharmacy management for failing to accept and implement the recommendations of the Labour Court in February 2017; and -...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I think we are in agreement and will not require a vote on the amendment. I welcome that there is movement on the Bill and that it is progressing through the Seanad and hope that it will quickly progress through the Dáil. I wish to put on the record my acknowledgement of the good work done by Senators Colm O'Rourke, Marie Louise O'Donnell and Lynn Ruane in highlighting and championing...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Senator Colm Burke.

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Did I say O'Rourke? I apologise to Senator Colm Burke and the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: No.

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I would be against the amendment but will not be pushing for a vote on it.

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Amendment No. 9, yes. Is that okay?

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Not really, I just think that many of the amendments that Sinn Féin will not be supporting are technical and unnecessary.

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I again congratulate Senators Colm Burke, Marie-Louise O'Donnell and Ruane. There is compassion and empathy for those who have experienced the worst possible thing, namely, someone going missing. To bring the Bill through the House is a great thing and I am delighted to support it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Early Intervention and Talk Therapy: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I regret that I missed some of the meeting but I had to go elsewhere. Ms Manahan just touched on the cost benefit analysis which was one of my questions. We need not just to convince the VHI and other private insurance companies, which cover about 45% of our population but the HSE as well. Currently some €400 million is being spent on psychotropic drugs as opposed to the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. There are currently more than 5,000 people incarcerated in prisons for the innocent of Ireland today. It is direct provision I want talk about. My party believes it is the new eighth amendment. It is the new industrial schools that much shamed the State for many, many years. It is how we treated the most vulnerable. Do we not learn? When one...