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Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: Céad míle fáilte to all those in the Gallery, who are back again. I thank sincerely an Teachta Coppinger for bringing this Bill to the Dáil on Second Stage. Her dedication to survivors is quite clear in the legislation she authors and this should be recognised. I cannot say the same for the Government. To block this proposal is unsettling and one questions why. Due...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: 185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal (details supplied). [30884/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: Dublin City Council has 362 vacant homes that residents urgently need to be returned to the available housing stock. Of the approximately €50,000 needed to fully refurbish a council home, central government is funding only about 20%. Has the Minister heard of index-linked funding? Is this a deliberate decision of neglect? The voids return programme must be revoked in order to...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: Tá.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: Most of this Government's housing policy has thrown renters around the country, and in particular in my area of the inner city and Dublin South-Central, under the bus. However, the peculiar decision to severely limit a successful programme, the tenant in situ programme, seems to be the Government driving the bus over my constituents. Why the Minister would cut the legs from under this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (10 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: 1430. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided in the case of a person having difficulty obtaining a medical card (details supplied). [29612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) with a number of serious medical issues has been refused a medical card. [28581/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (27 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 583. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for a vacant/derelict HSE property (details supplied). [26757/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Máire Devine: That is pathetic-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Máire Devine: That is pathetic-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Fair play to you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Listen to the defensiveness.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Protect people. That is the job the Government is meant to do.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: I welcome Mark and his family here. The family named her well as her name is Cara, a friend, and she has become a true friend to not just her brothers but to many in this country hoping for change and the delivery of care that the Government has failed to do. It has failed the children in my constituency and across this nation. It is a clear breach of the Disability Act and more than...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Congratulations. The last committee I was on - from 2016 to 2020 - was the mental health committee as a then Senator. I am look forward to getting to know the facts and figures of budgetary matters, being informed, making decisions and working collaboratively. I do not mean to be a grouch but it feels male dominated here. I wonder what the makeup of the committee is and whether it has...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (20 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Not one from another party. I am not being picky but, lads, come on.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s Awaab’s Law, which sets legal time limits for the remediation of serious health hazards, such as damp and mould in social housing; and if he will respond to the findings of the recent Trinity College Dublin and The Liberties Community...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Urban Development (13 May 2025)

Máire Devine: 87. To ask the Taoiseach with respect to the taskforce for Dublin, if the Liberties area of Dublin 8 is included in the 'Rejuvenating our Capital City Centre' section of the Programme for Government; if elements of this section, including the launch of an urban communities initiative to revitalise disadvantage city areas and consider the appropriate concentration of services in the city...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Máire Devine: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cummins for bringing this motion to the Dáil. It is a topic I hold dear to my heart. In my personal experience with my own children, I had little choice when I lived in Belfast prior to the Good Friday Agreement. I sent my children to the local Catholic school, particularly for protection at that time, given what was going on and the attacks on...