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Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: At the outset, we welcome this Bill. Ensuring the right to be forgotten is essential for people who have overcome cancer. For people who face a diagnosis of that kind, purchasing a home might not be the first thing on their mind but shelter and owning a home are so important that many will quickly realise they are facing not only a battle with cancer but, even when they are on the far side...

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: I grew up in a very republican household. I was taught well by my father the values of service to the community and inclusion. I see parallels with Pride and the LGBT community in our country. Our queer comrades were oppressed by means of unfair laws, church doctrine and social stigma. The first Pride march in Dublin took place in June 1983 amid a culture of violence perpetrated against...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Okay. We do not have to live in them, probably. My time is short. I thank Dr. O'Toole for that. I will pick up on something he said to my colleague Deputy Farrell. He spoke about the tariffs and the exports but he broke it down with respect to pharmaceuticals - and it is pharmaceuticals we are talking about. If pharmaceutical products are just sent to America for in-house health...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: It could be something for our side to negotiate with as well. It could be a deal with America for the American market and then there could be the rest. The figures on that would be interesting, so it is not as scary-looking to everybody. It might help a little to steady the ship. We are not going to lose everything.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Yes, okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: There was high inflation between 2022 and 2023 with Covid and Russia's invasion of Ukraine and then there was stabilisation between 2023 and 2024. However, in October of last year, it started to rise again, and across the eurozone. Do the ESRI know of a concise summary of the domestic and outside influences on that? Is it attributable to Israel's genocide in Gaza or its attacks on Iran and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: The ESRI's quarterly economic summary states it expects unemployment to remain low and wage growth to exceed inflation this year and in 2026. That would be welcome in my constituency, Dublin South-Central, and across the country. The most pressing need that underpins everything in this country is housing. My colleague spoke about this previously. There is a kind of depressing forecast for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: 930. To ask the Minister for Health whether the shingles vaccine will be made available to the public; if so, when (details supplied). [39153/25]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: I would like to greet the survivors of domestic, intimate partner, sexual and gender-based violence in the Gallery as well as those at home. Some of you may not be able to pursue justice through our legal system for myriad reasons. We see you and we stand with you always. Every one of us knows a victim of crime in this very broad category, including behaviour which might not previously...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Thirty-three children in the GAA Palestine club were due to travel. I know he is very aware of the issue as a lot of my colleagues have raised it. Seven days prior to travel, they were told they need to provide more information and it has been quite devastating and upsetting for the coaches, for the hosts, for both Deputy Ó Snodaigh and me and for the Good Counsel club in Drimnagh,...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: The cost of every single aspect of life in Ireland has been on a constant upward trajectory since Covid arrived in 2020. Yes, we can point to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a cause for the increase in energy costs, which in turn caused food prices to increase around the world, but when energy costs eventually decreased, our food and goods prices did not follow. Supply costs are impacted by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: I thank Mr. Madouros for his presentation. There is a lot to it so I will just concentrate on construction of housing, which is the biggest challenge facing us in the country. The article today in The Irish Times gives data from AIB showing that the volume of homebuilding in Ireland decreased again in June, for the second month in a row. This is the fastest rate of decline in 18 months....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: We heard that yesterday and the day before that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Is it €2,000 or €3,000?

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Deputy Geoghegan called this a "charade". Ouch; that really hurt. I ask for respect. For what died the sons, and probably daughters, of Róisín? Luke Kelly wrote the poem on the 50th anniversary of the Rising in 1966. It reflected on where Ireland had arrived since Easter 1916. It was a lament of the direction this nation took, opting to shift towards a dominant capitalist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: I thank Mr. French for his time. He was very generous previously when we met and spoke about Valerie's law. I appreciate all that he has done. His drive to protect children is commendable. I cannot imagine what it has been like for Valerie's family, who could only watch while three young children were taken into care. It is incomprehensible that Valerie's family, including Mr. French,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: It does, kind of. It is obvious that Mr. French is aware of due process. There is a great fairness in that, given the burden of what happened to Valerie and the loss of her children to Mr. French as well. My last question is on Tusla. Does Mr. French feel that the legislation would change the role of Tusla?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: Okay. I thank Mr. French very much.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Máire Devine: 429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a project which must be carried out urgently, in consideration of serious issues with PPP bundles and funding which include essential regeneration (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36290/25]