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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Senator Coffey is always attacking Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I second Senator Gavan's amendment to the Order of Business. I will take no lectures from Senator Coffey. He says the same thing day in and day out.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He is more disgruntled than usual. I suggest that Fine Gael Senators did not wish to get out of the bed this morning because of the news, and perhaps that has been the case for the past week. Perhaps Senator Coffey should just go back to bed because his disgruntlement is a bit unnecessary.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Perhaps they need a bit more of a rest given the rattling they had over the past week. I wish to raise the issue of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. There has been an increase, not a decrease, of 3.5% according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is having a grave effect on public health. Fifty years of progression in public health and disease elimination is threatened as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Fianna Fáil is on the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Happy together again.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: That was corrected although the email was received by gardaí.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader should be ashamed of himself. His skin is incredible. He is defending the indefensible.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He should answer for his own actions.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator should go back to bed; he might wake up in better form.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: This Finance Bill, which puts into practice the measures announced in budget 2018, is another result of the effective coalition, recently matched up again, between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is a missed opportunity, where tax cuts were championed ahead of investments in key services that could begin to address the crises in health, housing and education. Apart from the objections...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I feel this is my day.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Department of Justice and Equality has a great deal to answer for, not only in the context of the ongoing issue of emails relating to Maurice McCabe but also in respect of Garda stations, a matter to which my colleague just referred. The Committee of Public Accounts was told by the assistant Garda Commissioner that he would not prioritise Stepaside Garda station but would put the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The assistant Garda Commissioner made that statement this morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The criteria were set by the Government and the Department of Justice.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He would have changed it.

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"Monitoring of premiums 7.Following the commencement of this Act, the Health Insurance Authority shall monitor and report on the increase in premiums of private health insurance due to this legislation, to the Minister for Health, before the next amendment of the Principal Act with regard to Risk Equalisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The HSE was established over a decade ago. Why did nobody put a red alert on the lack of speciality financial reporting, in this case obviously mental health and CAMHS? Do the witnesses not find the lack of financial report accounting for sub-specialities unacceptable? The biggest problem in the health services is recruitment and retention of staff. Every year we were told that an extra...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: He did not answer about the budget. I did not get a clear sense about that.