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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: We live in the real world.

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: I cautiously welcome the Bill. Obviously, our stance is that the best approach is to provide universal health care for all citizens on an equal basis and on the basis of need alone.

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Or the other way around.

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: I want to commend Senator Leyden for bringing the Bill before the House today, but he should not get used to it. To be fair to him, he has pursued this particular issue relentlessly. He initiated a Private Members' Bill in 2005, 2011 and again today. Sinn Féin is supportive of the intentions behind the Bill, as the current system is archaic. The current procedure is too loose, with...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Ireland's reputation as a country that facilitated - yes, I use the dreaded words - tax avoidance on a grand scale over successive decades was brought back to the fore in recent days with the publication of a report by Oxfam. We have to get real on this. The poverty rates and inequality we have allowed to develop in our society can never be addressed as long as we continue to allow these...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: There have been too many question marks surrounding tax collection for years, most recently in respect of Apple. Sometimes, one just has to call a spade a spade. I am calling for a debate on the findings of the Oxfam report and on how we can go about collecting the effective rate of corporation tax with zero reductions. Our citizens deserve it.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Why is the Leader-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: No, because I think I know what it will be.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: No, because if one does not tell fibs-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: Who says it is not true?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: "Is it little more than a fiction that Parliament and Government are sovereign? [...] Are Governments nowadays to be compared to the totally deaf Beethoven in his later years, just being allowed to go through the motions of conducting the orchestra while the real control is being exercised elsewhere?" This is a quote from T.K. Whitaker, dated over 30 years ago. I too wish him a happy...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: The greatest deficiency and most damaging factor in the Irish health system is the absence of universal health care. There is an incurable reliance on a two-tier system. The Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil parties are responsible for building this inadequate health service over decades which has led to our poorest citizens suffering and dying because of their inability to pay. Disturbingly,...

Seanad: Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: Statements (8 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: This is a heartbreaking but potentially lifesaving topic. Last week we heard the personal testimonies of distraught parents of seriously ill children whose survival they see in the prescription of Orkambi. Yesterday, there were hundreds of people, some of them extremely ill, outside Leinster House, dragged onto the streets to demand what could be a lifesaver for them. They are desperate...

Seanad: Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: Statements (8 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: There is another drug on the market called Kalydeco and I ask the Minister whether that product is in the mix in the negotiations.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: I will briefly mention value for money in the context of medication and drugs. The UK Competition and Markets Authority has fined the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer £84.2 million for the 2,600% overnight price increase in respect of the drug Epanutin, which is used to treat epilepsy. This price increase cost the National Health Service and British taxpayers millions. I do not know if we...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: I want to highlight yet again the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise. Following the tragic preventable deaths of infant babies in this hospital over the past number of years, HIQA produced a report setting out hundreds of recommendations to restore safe and quality services. An updated report, published in the past few days, stated that some progress had been made but there remain...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: It has not worked.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Máire Devine: No, because the Senators are all very cosy together.