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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.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: An amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: That is unusual.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: We have gone over time. That is all.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: It is.

Seanad: Garda Overtime Budget: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the speed with which the Minister was able to come to the Seanad to discuss issues, albeit only to deal with statements, to which Senators never get answers. It is in stark contrast to the time that has been spent trying to get the Taoiseach to come to the House. It is good and correct to have the senior Minister in the Chamber. We are usually fobbed off with a junior Minister...

Seanad: Garda Overtime Budget: Statements (29 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The stability of An Garda Síochána may be a bit wobbly because it has an acting Commissioner. Where are the reforms that were promised? It needs a good anchor. That will be some time coming. In the interest of front-line workers doing a job most of us would find far too difficult and demanding, why are the gardaí, like other front-line workers, filling in the gaps with...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Well done.