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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.

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister to the House. I welcome visitors and stakeholders, particularly Senator Kelleher's sister. I am sure they all worked with Senator Kelleher for nine months - a gestation period - hoping to get this Bill through, so well done to them. This Bill is about five things - awareness, understanding, procedure, good practice and mandatory reporting. The Bill will bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for attending. It is an interesting area of law. I wish to clarify a few issues. In some cases the guardian ad litemis the only voice for the child and it is most important that the child's voice is heard on all occasions. The criteria for the appointment of a guardian ad litemare outlined. They include education, experience and professional qualifications....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: Can I get an answer to my question on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: The answer to the Deputy's question is that we believe Tusla cannot be trusted. That is the short, unscientific answer. I thank the Minister for coming to the committee again today. I raised earlier the matter of ensuring this service will provide for the needs of children with disabilities, be they intellectual or physical. The children who may be represented in court may not have the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I second Senator Craughwell's amendment to the Order of Business calling on the Minister for Defence to come to the House. The headline we have been subjected to, yesterday in particular, is that Irish children are being exported to psychiatric institutions, mainly in the United Kingdom. There were six in the last two years that we know of, three of whom have ended up in St. Andrew's in...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: We are exporting our children, as we have done in the past. These vulnerable children are being sent away from their families, their friends, their home, their country and, most importantly, their community. What message are we giving them? It is that we do not want to listen. We are sending them to outside institutions, leaving them with no means of communication with family or friends...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator is out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator should resume his seat.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: The Senator was let out for good behaviour.

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: Second Stage (4 Apr 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome the Bill. It has been well written by Senator Keith Swanick and founded in sound sentiments. It is wise morally and economically to allow people to continue working in the health care profession once they tick all of the boxes in meeting the criteria such as being fit for work and there being dual consensus. That is important. As we debated...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: There were millions lost on Project Eagle. The country is weary and fed up and I think we are weary and fed up getting up day after day, fed up at perceived skullduggery at all levels of this country. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has accelerated this. He needs to understand, and he seems to misjudge, the anger and ire of citizens who are faced with a tsunami of corruption,...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: The Committee of Public Accounts is the only point citizens have in this so-called republic for redress.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: It seems only the well-connected-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: So-called republic.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: Leader, would you ever just dún do bhéal for a minute. Go raibh maith agat.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: It seems only the well-connected are allowed to attack the Committee of Public Accounts-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: -----and those without golden protections embrace the committee as a voice for their truth and justice. The Grace case, the whistleblowers, the banks and the charities scandal ad nauseamhave been addressed by the committee. The Minister, Deputy Noonan, is beginning to dote in his age. Perhaps he needs to rethink what he is saying. I also want to raise the issue-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Máire Devine: I wrote the script. Does the Leader have an issue with it?