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

Máire Devine: Many polls have shown that more than 87% of citizens are in favour of repealing the eighth amendment. It needs to be repealed. We do not believe there should be a further delay in dealing with such an urgent issue. For that reason, we are supporting amendment No. 1, in the names of Senators Ruane and Higgins, which calls for a report and a recommendation on the eighth amendment to be...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: Sinn Féin will support the Bill. That said, we do have concerns and there are areas in which we seek assurances. Perhaps the Minister of State might address them today and provide answers. The original purpose of the Bill was to allow HIQA to inspect all residential settings for people with disabilities and it was given a three year period in which to do so, from November 2013. As...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Irish Prison Service (13 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy English, for coming to the Seanad to address my nursing colleagues' extreme concern at the proposed changes to their working rosters at Cloverhill prison. These changes, if implemented, will lead to the halving of nursing cover on a nightly basis. My colleagues are extremely worried...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Irish Prison Service (13 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I am very disappointed, and nurses are going to be very disappointed. The night shift is the most volatile shift and no other members of the multidisciplinary team are available. The onerous responsibility for providing the necessary care and the appropriate clinical environment falls on one nurse, and it is too much. Not many nurses would apply for such posts, but I will bring back the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I want to raise concerns similar to Senator Daly's regarding the as yet unpublished report by the trauma steering group and the suggestion that up to nine emergency departments may close their doors to patients, including in Cavan, Naas, Wexford, Portiuncula and Cork. Recent reports have highlighted the future of emergency medicine, with recommendations that increased centralisation of...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (12 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: It is timely that I get the opportunity to make a statement in the Seanad today about social protection. I make the statement on the back of the release of a damning report on poverty, deprivation and inequality published two weeks ago by Social Justice Ireland. It provides some truly harrowing statistics and figures which fly in the face of the old narrative from the Government that the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I again raise the issue of the ongoing industrial dispute between the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland, PNAI, and the HSE. The dispute has now entered its second phase, which commenced this morning. The HSE needs to commit to resolving this dispute urgently before patient care is impacted upon. Phase 2 commenced this morning throughout hospitals. Essentially, nurses will not be...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: The Senator should get his facts right.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: What does the Senator know about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: The Senator is very interested in the North.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: We are not heckling.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: I ask the Fianna Fáil Senators to put the record straight on what they did this morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: We should invite Martin McGuinness, MLA, to attend the House to explain to these Senators and fill in the gaps on what has happened.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Máire Devine: Yes. Sinn Féin would like to welcome the commencement order signed by the Tánaiste yesterday which gives the Charities Regulator stronger investigative and enforcement powers. There have been far too many controversies recently involving financial irregularities in the charities sector, namely, Rehab, CRC and, most recently, Console and St. John of God. These scandals have done...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I have been asked by my colleague, Senator Colette Kelleher, to raise an issue on the Order of Business because she is attending the launch of a pre-budget submission by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and cannot make it today. She wants to raise the important issue of home care services for people with dementia. She was delighted by the attendance of Senators and Deputies at the launch of...

Seanad: Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (Resumed) (30 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I welcome our MEP, Ms Lynn Boylan, who has joined us today. I reiterate what Senator Gavan said. His comments are important because sustainability is not a word we will be using if we allow the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement to come in to this country. I know our MEPs in Europe, certainly those in the group Ms Boylan is in, have bought fiercely against it. They...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: I have enjoyed the debate. The Minister knows the Sinn Féin stance on the amendments. We acknowledge the intent of both amendments and agree that most drug users are victims of addiction who are exploited by drug gangs and have been alienated for generations by our institutions, including Government. Sinn Féin policy clearly states that addiction is a public health issue and...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2016)

Máire Devine: To remain.