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- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: It is Devine. Quelle surprisewith Fianna Fáil's amendment. We are used to it at this stage. It is a good way for it to keep sweet with both its friends and foes. Our comhliosta proposal would see immediate improvements for those people on long-term hospital waiting lists. It is an unfortunate fact that if people access the public health system, they will more than likely feature on...
- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: The Senator should not point his finger.
- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: The Senator needs to relax.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is right.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: I thank the Minister. While it is taking time, we are beginning to learn timelines and who said what to whom. I disagree with my colleague, Senator Noone. We need to know who said what, when and how. People need to be accountable and to not hide behind the assertion that one should bury it now and get on with the inquiry. I believe the Minister is winning the moral ground and the...
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Will Senator Buttimer move along? This is too important for the Senator to try and make a political point out of it.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Senator Buttimer has done so, day in, day out.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Perhaps the Acting Chairman should ask Senator Buttimer to "Dún do bhéal" for a minute.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Go raibh maith agat. I apologise to the Minister for being so rudely interrupted by an ignoramus on my right. I hope the Minister can answer the questions-----
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: -----and I wish her the best of luck.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: I thank the Acting Chairman.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: I wish to echo not what the previous Senator has said but the comments of other Senators in their condemnation of the vile, nauseating and atrocious attempt to denigrate Sergeant McCabe in recent years. I have another concern with regard to this matter. Notwithstanding the need to play politics with it – it is political – we need to consider the damage it is causing to Tusla...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Sorry, I did second the amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Very naive.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: It is great to listen to the two architects of the failure of the health service. I wish to speak about the 90% of the 35,000 nurses in the INMO who have voted to take industrial action to begin on 7 March. Perhaps those represented by SIPTU might follow suit. I am surprised that this issue has not been raised on the Order of Business already as it is an overwhelming rejection of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: This is about the capacity of the health service which needs resources. The Government and we, as legislators, have a duty to look after and cherish our own people, including patients and those involved in the beleaguered health service that is being driven into the ground. Everybody states day in and day out that he or she is dealing with it and trying to do this, that or the other-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: A radical approach is needed, but that is not happening. It is the same old same old. We will never get anywhere if we continue in this way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Máire Devine: A sudden interest in the health service - boring.