Results 1,661-1,680 of 2,038 for speaker:Máire Devine
- 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?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: You do. You are too nice to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: Obviously, there are systemic problems with the Garda Síochána. I call for support for the motion of no confidence in the Garda Commissioner that will soon come before the Lower House. The Garda Síochána seems to operate in a parallel universe and it is no longer the case of one bad apple. We try to appease ourselves by thinking it is one bad apple, but the Garda...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: It is not the case of one bad apple, it is several bad apples in the barrel and it needs root and branch reform. I call on people to listen to and support any motion which seems to enable the Garda to become more respected in this country. Kudos to the disability rights campaigners outside Leinster House. Yesterday, I attended Senator Dolan's call for the ratification of the UN Convention...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: The fibs are coming out again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: Cop on to yourselves. There are two sides. Fianna Fáil constantly goes on about this matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Máire Devine: Fianna Fáil has no clarity. It really does not. This is typical behaviour by that party. The Senator is a bit dumb and it shows on his face.