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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (13 Nov 2025)

Máire Devine: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason several Dublin Bus stops were not constructed by the NTA according to BusConnects plans submitted to and approved by An Coimisiún Pleanála (details supplied). [62354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Nov 2025)

Máire Devine: 355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of safety works and reconfiguration of an area (details supplied), where a cyclist died two years ago and a cyclist was injured earlier this week, An Coimisiún Pleanála fast-tracked approval of an upgrade in advance of BusConnects but it is the only canal junction not yet upgraded; the status of the safety audit...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Nov 2025)

Máire Devine: 356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the public outcry from residents in an area (details supplied) which has lost its direct bus route to Dublin city centre, as well as having lost several bus stops in their village; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62029/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Gender Proofing of Policies (4 Nov 2025)

Máire Devine: 1535. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the new gender pay gap reporting portal for public and private organisations will be fully launched as promised on International Women’s Day 2025, under the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021. [59047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Gender Proofing of Policies (4 Nov 2025)

Máire Devine: 1536. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the additional planned legislation for gender pay gap reporting will be brought to the Dáil. [59048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (21 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an IPA repatriation request (details supplied) will be expedited. [56926/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (14 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: 713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which budget 2026 will affect domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence initiatives; the breakdown of funding for each initiative or group to receive funding, with a description of each initiative or group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55245/25]

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: I remind the Minister of State of the issues I raised in respect of Crumlin hospital.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Deputy Daly and I do not often agree. In fact, we very rarely agree, but I say "Well done". He articulated the concerns for this generation - our new generation - going forward with the explosion of AI and social media and all that stuff that is really scary. It is good, but most of it is scary for young minds and bodies. We really need to grab hold of it. I ask the Minister of State to...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Am I finished now?

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Okay. Very quickly, then, I just wanted to say-----

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: -----that mental well-being is a community concern.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: In September, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of The Tree of Hope. It is community, not necessarily professional. It has to be me, you and everybody.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: That went very quickly.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: What does that mean?

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Their belonging.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: To go back to the idea of the family and kids being fractured and sent to different places, either through placement or in different houses to be reared, studies published at the beginning of the year state that siblings have much more of an influence on who we become and how we are as we grow than our parents at times. That connection has to be there. With our parents, there is a life...

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: I thank everybody for their presentations and their thoughtfulness for those that we need to be thoughtful for and care for. This meeting is being held at a good time. It is International Kinship Care Week and yesterday was World Mental Health Day. All those things are so mixed up together. I have a few comments and questions. I ask the witnesses to forgive me if I fly off in different...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Of the many laughable statements and assertions made by Fine Gael in yesterday's budget press release, the most pathetic was from the "Beyond GDP - Quality of Life Assessment" section. According to it, "wealth inequality in Ireland has declined over time, reflecting rising assets for those in the middle of the wealth distribution and falling liabilities for those at the bottom." It also...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Máire Devine: Answer the question.