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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....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I congratulate those involved in the Australian vote for same-sex marriage, especially the 61% who voted in favour of it. I am proud that some of the Irish method was replicated in the campaign and that it was led by many Irish living over there. I hope Australia will legislate for it before Christmas. I wish to highlight the alarming rise in attacks on mental health staff, as reported...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: It was not me.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Will the Senator put on record what he proposes to leave out?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Where is the Senator's mandate?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: We had all this yesterday.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I am sharing time with Senator Warfield. I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to record my dissatisfaction with having statements on this because they appear to prevent action. Yesterday in my local hospital, St. James's Hospital, there were 15 patients left on trolleys. The national number was 428. One does not often think of this with respect to children but in 2016 Our Lady's...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Many of the problems have been identified by my colleagues and are also seen in the area of Dublin South Central which the Minister knows well. I refer to the problems of inadequate training, the threats of the loss of jobseeker payment, lack of real opportunities and the waste of public money going to private companies. I want to raise a point in regard to small and medium-sized...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: We are the Opposition. On a point of order, what has the Assembly got to do with JobPath?

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: What has the Assembly got to do with JobPath?

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I cannot believe it.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Here we go again. Please address me only. You have a problem with focusing.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Where is your mandate?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: Will the Leader update us on the Government's plans to protect young people from the grips of the gambling industry? My party has been extremely active on this topic, about which I am seriously concerned. The Department of Justice and Equality has a plan for a gambling control Bill, although it is fair to say and everyone agrees that it is long overdue at this stage, especially as it will...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator is invited.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: On the matter I have raised today, I am speaking for my mental health nurse colleagues and their patients, as well as being a member of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care and a member of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA. The high-dependency psychiatric unit at Tallaght Hospital has six beds. It has been rumoured that it will close due to staff shortages. It is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Nov 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State. I am delighted, as is everyone in the health service, that the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS, beds have been reopened in Ballyfermot. It is a good news story and I am delighted that it has happened. I refer to converting the agency staff to permanent posts. In regard to the design of buildings, we have had these problems before. The...