Results 1,841-1,860 of 2,038 for speaker:Máire Devine
- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: The Senator-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Neither does Senator Buttimer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: It was Senator Buttimer who opposed it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: There were no lectures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: It is Senator Buttimer who is good at the lectures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Do not get defensive.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Section 10, amendment No. 2 is about public officeholders.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: We should hurry up.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: This is a learning curve but I will allow the Bill to go through in order that it will not delay payment increases. Sinn Féin has tabled a motion on the gender gap, which will be debated in the Dáil tomorrow. We will learn a little more and I seek cross-party support, particularly from Fianna Fáil given Senator Ardagh has eloquently defended women and referred to the gender...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Services.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Public services.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)
Máire Devine: Property tax, water charges.
- Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: We have not been invited.
- Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: It was more than that. More than 220,000 people were aged under 24.
- Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I wish to put to bed the contradiction in what Senator Coffey said. He mentioned Senator Billy Lawless, who is the Taoiseach’s nominee, but Senator Lawless has pleaded with this House for cross-party support of the motion without the dilution of an amendment. That is all that needs to be said about Senator Coffey’s contribution and others. Many of us have lived as emigrants....
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Well done.