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

Máire Devine: Ms O'Connor knows this already but I need to really stress that our health service cannot function without staff. We have been bled dry of staff. There was an effort to take away the €20 million that was supposed to help with recruitment last year and this year, which in itself is not enough. Are there any intelligent financial plans to staff our health service because otherwise we...

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

Máire Devine: It is about having a plan and prudent housekeeping. Any housekeeper would do the same. Where one sees a shortage, one goes after it.

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

Máire Devine: I have many ideas.

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

Máire Devine: Everybody in the HSE is under pressure, be they the witnesses before us today or the front line staff. Picking up on the Chairman's comments, was no alert sent? I have a response here to a Parliamentary Question on planning performance and programme management. Many committee members have asked this question of the HSE, as have NGOs, and I know that Mental Health Reform is here today. I...

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

Máire Devine: Yes.

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

Máire Devine: It is a question of the dignity of patients and of the staff working with them

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Cyberstalking and cybersafety, especially for children, have become extreme. They are hunted down and targeted, and many young children are distressed and upset by this. Several of them, including some as young as ten, have died by suicide. We are dealing with it to some extent at the committee on children and youth affairs. I want to raise statements on statements, following the topic...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Will Senator Norris go for the leadership?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Will Senator Buttimer change home help hours from minutes to hours? There is a proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Senator Buttimer is hearing that. We do this every day.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Here we go again.

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I question whether health insurance is fair, the extra burden that is carried by citizens given their PRSI contributions and that they are trying to keep the health system going. We deal with a Bill like this one every year and it is about taking the risk away from insurance companies. It aims to be Exchequer-neutral but I wonder why are we...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: May I clarify what I said earlier?

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I just want to ask a question. If I am tabling an amendment, when is the deadline for submission?

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill has been robustly debated and scrutinised in the other House. I know there were differences among those affected by the Bill, specifically physiotherapists and physical therapists, about some aspects of it and some of the amendments tabled on Committee Stage. We liaised with the representative bodies, the Irish Society of Chartered...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Really.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I want to raise the issue of the interim report regarding the Grace case. When will members be given the opportunity to receive the interim report in our hands? We have dealt with foster care issues quite comprehensively and there was the launch last week of a comprehensive report by the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs following a HIQA inspection and the finding of significant...

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I acknowledge the great work done by all councillors but especially by my colleagues in Sinn Féin. There is a list of them. They include a nurse, a social worker and even a DIYer. Others are the local activist in the community. Let us face it - most councillors do a full-time job for remuneration of approximately €17,000 which, frankly, is an insult. Many of them travel large...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Perhaps Senator Wilson's grandstanding and rhetoric could be turned into decision-making by Fianna Fáil, the republican party, with regard to the Assembly in the North. What aspects of it would he throw out, given a strong mandate for marriage equality, an Irish language Act and the cash-for-ash scandal? He would be quite comfortable standing over corruption and allowing that to go on....