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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...

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

Máire Devine: I know the Minister of State cares about these issues. It is apt that we raise these issues during what we consider Pride week. There is nothing proud about direct provision. I will call it incarceration. I will not call it what the Minister of State would like me to call it, which would dilute what it really is. The Minister of State is asking LGBTI people in direct provision to become...

Seanad: Education (Digital Devices in Schools) Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I congratulate Senator Craughwell on the introduction of this thoughtful and considered legislation. Senator Gallagher has alluded to the size of mobile devices. I reckon that within a generation, children might be born with them chipped into their DNA. It seems to be going that way. There is no doubt that technology is one of the most pressing child...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 36:In page 24, to delete lines 26 to 34 and substitute the following:“(h) provide that the admission policy of a second level school that provides education through the medium of Irish may provide for the inclusion of students that have attended a primary school that provides education through the medium of Irish,”. I will not discuss this amendment, but...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Máire Devine: I am not sure if the Senator is referring to myself as a republican; the Fianna Fáil Senator to my left is claiming the title, too. We will not get into that today. Sinn Féin will support Senator Ó Ríordáin's amendment and I hope he reintroduces it. It is about opportunity and equality. It is ridiculous to be going back to grandparents to give a choice for...