Results 1,621-1,640 of 2,038 for speaker:Máire Devine
- 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.
- 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.