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Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the legislation on behalf of Sinn Féin. It is one tool to tackle a major problem and I congratulate Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin on pushing it through. It is a good day when action is being taken. In December last year the Health Research Board released figures for deaths due to poisoning and a drug overdose in the years from 2004 to 2017, inclusive....

Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome everyone to the House and congratulate my colleague, Senator Warfield, on bringing the Bill before the House. I also want to thank Independent Senators Norris and Grace O'Sullivan for co-signing the Bill. This is a human rights issue, but I want to discuss the Bill from the perspective of mental health and well-being on the island, for which I am Sinn Féin spokesperson. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator is not wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Máire Devine: Bring it on. It will be no contest. He has an empty head on the subject.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Máire Devine: I echo the sentiments of Senator Freeman on the great success of the Darkness into Light walks. I do not believe I was that generous at 3 o'clock last Saturday morning in the Phoenix Park. Well done to her. The Senator was correct in stating that this and previous Governments over the past 15 years have taken a fiscal scalp to mental health services. The Leader should not tell us that...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Máire Devine: We do not acknowledge-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: City and County Child Care Committees: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Máire Devine: My question is also about CE workers. In the inner city area they are devastated that they cannot continue. I know the intention is to improve standards but it would be an uplift for them if there could be a concentration on them in order for them to continue their career in child care. What, if any, contact do the witnesses have with the children of asylum seekers and refugees, or who has...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Helen McEntee. It is good to have the correct Minister of State in the House. It is not the case that Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn was shooting the messenger because this issue affects all Senators. The issue I raise is the care of children outside the State. A small number of children need special care which cannot...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for her response. She has outlined the process and criteria for the treatment abroad scheme. However, my concern is with the oversight of the care of those children and the facilities in which they are being treated as opposed to the rigmarole of getting them such treatment. It is about where we are sending them to. This report was damning of St. Andrew's and...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I would like an invitation to be extended as a matter of urgency to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, to come to the Chamber to respond to questions on the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes which was published yesterday and her response to it. The survivor...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Far be it for me to divide the House. I will withdraw the proposed amendment if the Leader will confirm that the Minister can come to the Chamber before the end of May to have a further debate. I thank all the other Senators. As a House, we can work together on this.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Yes. I withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: The Cathaoirleach is absolutely right.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: It is apt timing that this representative of "wasters.com" throughout this country will raise the issue of Ireland’s water and the water commission which continues to sit in session today to discuss its report on the future of our water. Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have marched through our capital, as well as various cities, towns and villages, demanding...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I am talking on the back of the protest at the weekend and that Fianna Fáil is not quite ready to pull the Government down. Accordingly, it is acquiescing to the demands of Fine Gael and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, to save face. The important point from the wonderful protest and demonstration on Saturday is that the wasters in...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Senator Colm Burke referred to water charges in the North. He sounds like a disgruntled and ignorant broken record. It is about time he educated himself. We will do a statement on that matter if he needs it.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: It has recently been reported that the High Court has found that Angela Kerins, who had taken a case against the Committee of Public Accounts, is only obliged to pay one third of the costs of the case while the remaining two thirds are to be borne by the Committee of Public Accounts. This is quite a significant and unusual development. It is the first time this has happened in the history...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State. I welcome the legislation and I commend Senator Ó Ríordáin for pushing it forward. It is a first step in moving away from treating addiction as a criminal matter and towards treating it as a public health issue. The most recent data available from the national drugs-related death index show that almost two people died each day in 2004 because...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Dublin 4.