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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: Fascists.

Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: Shame on you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Operations of Oberstown Children Detention Centre (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for coming along. I was thinking about staff, the culture and staff cohesion. Coming from a background working in acute psychiatry, I note that challenging behaviour is always a difficult one. Oberstown has it every day. The integration of the three units has posed some staff difficulties. Integration of the staff must be at the core of the culture Oberstown is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Operations of Oberstown Children Detention Centre (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: I would like an update on the regulatory body for the social care workers that I had referred to previously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister for attending the committee today. There is a delay in the registration process for social workers with their approved professional body. Will the Minister comment on that? Has she met with them to get the finger out and go through the registration process a little faster? Children are being born into homelessness. The latest figures show there are 2,300 children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: Will the Minister indicate the number of children with disabilities who are currently enrolled in the ECCE scheme? Has the Department projected what the demand will be in this regard into the future? Given there was an underspend in disability funding, will the Minister red-circle that allocation to ensure it is spent? I wish her the best of luck in getting more coppers for her portfolio...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: It relates to waiting times for children to access early intervention programmes. Children are waiting seven or eight months, when they need access more immediately.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Máire Devine: I am sure the House will join me in congratulating the Dublin team on their back-to-back win on Saturday. I raise the issue of the Government placing the health of members of the Defence Forces in jeopardy through the continued use of the anti-malaria drug, Lariam, which is issued to our troops who serve abroad. PDFORRA asked me to raise the issue. It is holding its annual conference in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Services Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for attending to address this issue. I also thank and acknowledge a couple of staff from St. Andrew's community centre in Rialto who are present for highlighting to me during the summer the problems facing the community service programme, CSP. The other staff are busy hosting a local economic event in the area today. Community service projects are the bedrock...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Services Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: The response is positive but I would obviously need to take it in more. "Appraisal" can be a scary word when one is considering services, including community services. I hope it is not an appraisal to cut further or make the community service projects unsustainable. The Minister of State referred to an appraisal and report at the end of this quarter. Does he know exactly when the decision...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Services Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: That would be great.

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Taoiseach for his attendance today. In the few seconds available to me, my guess is I will not get the Taoiseach to agree to solve the multiple emergencies throughout the fractured health system. Consequently, I have decided to go easy on the Taoiseach and to ask him to solve one issue about which I was banging on yesterday and on different occasions, namely, an issue concerning...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: I am Senator Devine.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: I am not from Mayo. I am from Dublin, thank you very much.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Máire Devine: Last week I attended a briefing with representatives of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and SIPTU in Leinster House regarding the lack of implementation of what was agreed with the Health Service Executive, HSE, on nursing internships. This agreement was reneged on by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and it...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: And me.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I echo the words of Senator Conway-Walsh in thanking the entire Seanad staff. We, especially the newbies who probably wrecked the heads of the staff, really appreciate their support. I hope we will come back energised and a bit more knowledgeable after the summer. I wish to raise two issues, the first of which concerns the action plan for housing. We welcome the report. It is an...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: Along with Senator Dolan, I wish the raise the issue of the budget choices launched by Social Justice Ireland yesterday. It is hoped that this report will be studied, listened to and acted on in all the deliberations as the Government prepare for budget 2017. Ireland faces major challenges. There are challenges that have been constant, such as poverty, inequality and homelessness, but...

Seanad: Tax and Social Welfare Codes: Motion (19 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach, the Minister and his colleagues in Fine Gael, who are bringing this issue before the Seanad this evening. I have shared their experiences, especially in the sad times, when there were people who have been made unemployed queuing out the door of clinics. We need to do something to help them, but I felt inadequate in regard to those who were...

Seanad: Citizens' Assembly: Motion (15 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister. I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak on this motion, which relates to the proposed citizens' assembly. I want to begin by saying that any and all mechanisms that afford citizens further opportunities to participate in the democratic process are to be welcomed and commended. We have had witnessed a number of successful endeavours of this type in Ireland....