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Seanad: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Second Stage (17 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Sinn Féin supports the Senator Reilly's Bill, which I warmly welcome. It has been a long time coming. The Bill deals with awareness-raising, advocacy and data collection, which will be very important into the future, and it is very welcome. If the legislation is enacted, these elements and all of the others it contains will make a real difference to the lives of persons and families...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank Ms Dunnion. This, I suppose, came on the back of reading the report on Dublin South Central, which is my home area, and being shocked by it. I have several points. Ms Dunnion's report is comprehensive, but there are some aspects of foster care I would not necessarily understand and I ask her to bear with me. I have been trying to match a grandmother with two young babies via...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I am Senator Devine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I have been listening for the past hour and 15 minutes. What I have heard could be summed up as "dysfunctional". The current situation is absolutely unacceptable in the context of the protection of our vulnerable children. There is something rotten in it and there is something that vulnerable children we are meant to protect have to revisit again and again and again. The term "care...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Fianna Fáil should have voted for it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: We have had a very happy start to the week. Fianna Fáil is not happy with Sinn Féin. Perhaps we are threatening them too much, but the bluster on my left-hand side from Fianna Fáil in its attempt to get over its embarrassment and a failure to follow its own policies, as stated by my colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh, is cringeworthy-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Senator Daly, please. I wish to raise two matters. I was at a conference on the values of nursing and midwifery held in Dublin Castle this morning with 500 nurses. I want this House to congratulate the chief nursing officer of Ireland and the HSE on what was a wonderful discussion and workshops on our values. They will incorporate and bring back compassion and care, which has been eroded...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: That is so populist.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: It is about fear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Máire Devine: It is absolutely no money.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Think of the children.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I extend my thanks to the organisers of the Tree of Hope event who were on the lawn this morning. The planting of a Tree of Hope was respectful, bracing and uplifting. I hope we will all ponder and enjoy it as we walk around the gardens. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, is in a bit of trouble this morning over the backlog of maternity benefit payments, for which he...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Surely that is defamation.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Here we go again.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader is out of order again. He throws lots of digs and is very defensive.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader should stop lecturing us. It is his true form.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: It is the Leader's default position to lecture and to get digs in every now and then.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader is nasty.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: He does not know how to address the Chair. Day in, day out, he is like a broken record.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: The Leader will undermine his party's position.