Results 1,561-1,580 of 2,007 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad: Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (24 May 2017)
Máire Devine: I second the proposal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: See you on the dancefloor, Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: Is Senator Norris finished?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: I echo the words of condolence for Saffie Rose and Georgina, the eight and 18 year old young girl and woman, who were the first victims from Manchester to be named today. We are heartbroken and we send our love and support to the people of Manchester. Today I welcome the review published by the HSE into maternity care in this country. The clinical complaints covered four decades, with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: That is really unfair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: That is pure conjecture and a lie.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: The Senator could not help himself. Shame on him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: Can I just go because I have had enough of the Leader?
- Seanad: National Rehabilitation Hospital: Statements (23 May 2017)
Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State and if his attendance in the Seanad were recorded, it would have a gold star. That also demonstrates the dire need for disability services in this country and the demands for them. I thank Senator Boyhan for raising the issue so we are allowed to discuss it today. Patients with spinal and brain injuries are waiting for life-changing treatments and are being...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: On a point of clarification, is the time for statements on the second interim report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes reduced?
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister back to the House. It is important that she allows for oral collation of the history. We should have it in our archives and the National Library for our children and theirs to remember. It is important that we do not ever forget. As Senator Boyhan has said, records were destroyed. There also exist records that were sidelined. Numerous papers were never filed or...
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: This is all on the public record.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: Yes, it is extremely sensitive.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: It was stated that more than 1,000 names relating to Tuam and Bessborough homes had been found and that these files contained evidence of financial fraud, horrific levels of infant mortality, falsification of birth certificates and illegal adoptions. I will quote from an email that was forwarded to the people in the Visitors Gallery in October 2012. This was the beginning of it. It was...
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: What happened to them then? This was in 2012 and we had complete silence and nothing was heard. The next time the documents reared their heads, it seems, was in 2014 when the interdepartmental group report on mother and baby homes was published. However, the 1,000 files were not included in that particular report. Instead, according to correspondence from the HSE, the files were handed...
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: They have done their part and that shames us. This is now up to Members in these Houses. The Seanad should schedule statements on this matter as soon as possible. We cannot mismanage this again but it is exactly what we are doing. I think it is more than mismanagement. It is a deliberate concealment of the historic files of 1,000 women and perhaps 1,500 babies. It distresses me and I am...
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: On a point of clarification, are Senators allowed to name persons if the matter is on public record?
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: I understand parliamentary privilege applies.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: We have not agreed it.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2017)
Máire Devine: Yes, but there are thousands of files are missing.