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Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I wish to raise the report today that the Poolbeg incinerator has reduced waste exports by 7%. This is welcome but incineration is not the way to go for producing energy. It just encourages waste and is an easy policy option. There are emissions with the production of waste in the first instance and there are emissions at the end when we burn it. It is not good for the environment. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: That is okay. There is a small article on the budget. I am aware that the witness has said that she expected to answer more questions than to present. It is a political issue because it is a crisis. Given the explosion in the population and the increase in demand by those in emotional distress and by those with diagnoses of mental ill-health, I believe there should be a request or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: There are shortages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: If funding is on a national basis, how is it divvied up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: Is it separate from the mental health budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: What about patient participation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: Is it possible to talk to the interim director general about putting this issue on a steering group for children with complex medical needs? Seanad Éireann passed a motion on this but the HSE is sticking two fingers up in response and is saying it will do what it wants. I am trying to represent parents in really difficult circumstances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: That is a sideline issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: Wow. That is news. What about communications?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to the effect that No. 12 on the Order Paper be taken before No. 1. The Bill I wish to introduce aims to right a long-standing anomaly. At present, 16 and 17 year olds can give consent on their physical or dental health but they must be 18 to consent to mental health treatment. The expert review of the Mental Health Act recommended this be...

Seanad: Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I move: That leave be given to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Mental Health Act 2001 and for that purpose to provide for the right of minors over the age of 16 to consent to mental health treatment and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I thank Senator Norris.

Seanad: Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I have thought long and hard about it and I believe we should take it next Tuesday, 22 May 2018.

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Statements (16 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister and his statement on speech and language therapy and occupational therapy provision. I am speaking on behalf of constituents in Dublin South-Central, my area, whose population of people with disabilities is above the national average. The recent RTÉ programme showed parents and children at St. John of God special school, Islandbridge, and how they are suffering....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Máire Devine: There is indoctrination in the acceptance of the dehumanising of the Palestinian people and of genocide. We stand here and say these words and it goes on and on. I am not sure if anyone heard the RTÉ news last night, but the station interviewed an Israeli Government spokeswoman and asked her why Israel was shooting dead Palestinians. I thought I was hearing things, but she responded...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Máire Devine: In February, this House unanimously passed a motion to the effect that a non-HSE parent representative be appointed to the HSE primary care national steering group for children with complex medical needs. The HSE has disregarded the will of the Seanad and proceeded with sidelining parents from this decision-making process. The HSE wants to set up a reference group, a proposal which this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): HSE Staff Recruitment (10 May 2018)

Máire Devine: While I asked for the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to attend the House, I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. The office of the director general of the HSE is in disarray. Public confidence in high level management in the HSE is at an all-time low and we are all distressed at what is unfolding in the agency. Only last month we had the Garda Commissioner debacle and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): HSE Staff Recruitment (10 May 2018)

Máire Devine: I know section this and section that of the governance Act and so forth. The director general post will revert to chief executive officer again. Cathal Magee left this post because he did not really agree with the idea of a chief executive officer. We are going back for some reason. We do not want somebody parachuted in as has happened. The interim director general cannot become permanent...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Máire Devine: This morning I brought up a Commencement matter. Unfortunately, the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, understandably but disappointingly, was not available. Another Minister took the Commencement matter. The competition for the next director general of the HSE needs to be transparent and accountable. Most of all we need an open competition. To my absolute horror, the HSE cannot...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Máire Devine: There is little else to talk about today other than the cervical cancer scandal. What has happened is incredible. We cannot underestimate the fear that women all over this country and their families have been living with since the weekend, and which will continue into the future. The State Claims Agency is a Government agency with an embedded culture of dismissiveness. It is autocratic...