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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2017)

Máire Devine: I wish to refer to the INMO's release yesterday of figures on overcrowding in our hospitals. The figure for the period between January and June shows record levels of overcrowding, with 52,000 admitted patients on trollies, in overcrowded wards or on plastic chairs. My own hospital in Dublin South Central, St. James's, is the largest in the country. The figures for the hospital have almost...

Seanad: Report on Dying, Death and Bereavement: Statements (4 Jul 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister and those in the Gallery. I received the questionnaire on death, dying and bereavement, and shuddered and stayed away from it for a while. Given the tenacity of Senator O'Donnell, I managed to fill it in. I am delighted that the report has been presented to the Seanad. I wish to continue the poetic sense which is probably right for the end of life. In his...

Seanad: Report on Dying, Death and Bereavement: Statements (4 Jul 2017)

Máire Devine: That fact never stopped the Senator before.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will do my best to be brief.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I say, "Well done" to Lauren, Paula, Louise, Sinéad and Martina. I introduced myself as having a long career in psychiatric nursing. On this side of the Seanad, a lot of us are really working hard. Senator Joan Freeman is making sure that we really work hard and give our hearts to making sure our mothers, fathers and siblings are all safe and our children are safe. To start off, I...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Okay, I am just making an observation.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: There are lots of themes emerging. They say it is the family, it is the children. Where are the supports for families? It seems they are just left behind. Even if the services eventually get to the child who is having difficulties, the family is never addressed. When the child gets to the hospital, it wants to discharge him or her and says it is up to parents who have no plan and who are...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I know it was in an adult context but in the 1990s we set up a crisis intervention team with the nursing union and the HSE that worked within the community. It was very successful. It stopped admissions to hospital. It proved financially prudent and it provided care. I would go a person's home, as a professional, and sit with him or her until the crisis was gone or until that person said...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will go back to the idea of integrated care and placing it within our communities in order that it is normalised and not stigmatised. The creeping professionalisation of specialisms has taken place in the past 25 years and it serves the professional rather than the people. People cannot see beyond their own silo. There is hope in that the Health Service Executive agreed recently to a...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will speak first.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: It has been an interesting day. We deal with these matters in terms of questions concerning mental health facilities at the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, which is ongoing. In the context of mental health reform, the priority is approved centres. Therefore, we have a dearth of child and adolescent mental health services because we have to go with the approved centres in the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I am proud that this has happened in the Seanad. We are the Upper House, by the way, not the Lower House.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I am absolutely proud. Mr. Hughes referred to the clinical nurse specialist and advanced nurse practitioner roles and how we have to bring down the criteria. There are many easy solutions there. I want to end with the two words that simplify the crisis: Linn Dara. I have raised it every day in the Seanad on countless occasions. I keep throwing the name out and keep accosting Ministers...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I want to raise the issue of Grenfell Tower again. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, said this morning that there is no situation in Ireland that is directly comparable to Grenfell. What does "directly comparable" mean? This morning the chief fire officer of Dublin Fire Brigade said that the local authorities are best placed to carry...

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I again welcome the Minister of State. As a member of the all-party group on dementia, under the tutelage of Senator Kelleher, I welcome that the House is doing something about this issue. My office will attend the launch of the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland's prebudget submission and I appreciate all the work the Minister of State has done and continues to do on this issue. As a nurse, I...

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: It is not shambolic. The Senator is making that up.

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Why should we apologise? We have asked for an apology.

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Focus on your own history.

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Tá brón orm.

Seanad: Home Care Services: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Is that an apology?