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Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: I think it is 24-7.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: There is a fear.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: I think he got a "congratulations".

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: That is understandable.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: We have heard a great deal this morning about the history surrounding our national anthem. Does the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, agree that devising guidelines and criteria would be more useful than introducing legislation? Will he confirm that this is the direction in which he is moving? I take this opportunity to point out to him that the website of the Department of the Taoiseach...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Máire Devine: I had two specific questions, Chairman. The first was to the Minister of State on the question of whether to proceed with legislation or guidelines and the second was to Ms Hazel Tunney in regard to WIPO.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Thank you for your presentation. I have some quick-fire questions. The HSE representatives referred to 90% of mental distress or ill-health being dealt with in primary care. The primary care team will be seen to be led by the GP. How involved are GPs in this? What information and encouragement is being fed to them? Primarily, the work of the primary care team is to promote well-being in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I also asked a question on beds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Mr. Ryan referred to a figure of 93 beds. Is the correct figure not 83 beds?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for taking this Commencement matter. I am here to make a personal representation for the family of Ms Mary Baker. Mary is 80 years old and went to St. James's Hospital in August with a chest infection, ending up with a broken back, leading to paralysis from the waist down.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Okay. The family is here so they are okay with it.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Mary was at five years old put into institutional care, along with her small sister of two years old. She had an horrific childhood, with horrors we can only imagine and which we have heard of through the years about the Magdalen laundries. She protected her small sister and got out of there at the age of 16, never to return. She married happily and has children of her own. She is blind....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly. I refer to his reference to a location of their choosing. This woman chooses to go home to a familiar environment where there is family involvement and they can dovetail in with a home care package. I could go on. Her daughter lives with her, other daughters and sons live in the vicinity and they already have made alterations to their...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: It is a bit early for Christmas for me. I ask the Seanad to amend the Order of Business to ask the Taoiseach to come in to give an account, to quote his own words, of this dysfunctional Government's handling of one the biggest critical and moral crises to face a Government in many years.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I listened to the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, speaking in the Dáil last night. If one had closed one's eyes, one would think one was listening to the discredited former Tánaiste, Deputy Fitzgerald, who was forced by the court of public opinion to resign yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: How did the Minister for Justice and Equality respond when told by Mr. Noel Waters, a senior civil servant in his Department, about the existence of an email with Sergeant McCabe's name in it? He told the Dáil last night that he did not ask Mr. Noel Waters about the email regarding Sergeant McCabe, nor did he ask who sent the email.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, treated the email as if it did not exist.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: For seven days, the Minister ignored the existence of the email. He did not even tell the Taoiseach about its existence. Is that credible? Neither I nor the public think so. I was alarmed to hear the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, tell the Dáil last night that two trawls for documents by the Department of Justice and Equality failed to turn up-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The trawls failed to turn up the relevant emails that led to the resignation of Deputy Fitzgerald. The saga continues. We then discovered from the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, that, amazingly, none of the emails of senior officials around Deputy Fitzgerald, including her, had been checked. Why were the emails of these key people not checked? These are pertinent questions which I believe the...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Its Members require respect. I call on the Leader to invite the Taoiseach to this House to answer those questions.