Results 1-20 of 1,894 for speaker:Maire Devine
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: This is my first time speaking in the House. I send my support, solidarity and love to the victims in Orlando. This is carers' week. I acknowledge the hard work these people do day in day out, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, looking after their loved ones, and the struggle they have accessing facilities and resources. I also pay a tribute to the over 100,000 of my colleagues, nurses...
- Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Mná na hÉireann.
- Seanad: Poverty and Homelessness: Motion (15 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Hear, hear. Well done. I wish to share time with Senator Gavan.
- Seanad: Poverty and Homelessness: Motion (15 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: I echo the passionate comments of Senators Boyhan and Ó Clochartaigh. We are a society beyond crisis and in an emergency that is only growing. We have had at least two years of emergency and it seems we have done nothing but grind to a halt. As public representatives we have a moral responsibility to demand adequate resources to guarantee the provision of homes for our people....
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Can I have seven minutes too?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: I thank the Minister of State for her attendance. On behalf of the nurses, midwives, medics and health care staff, I welcome the Minister of State to her post and hope to work collaboratively with her and the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris. I am raising the issue of the pending first phase of industrial action next week by the Psychiatric Nurses Association. I ask the Minister of...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: I do not want to be negative, but I have been involved in this game for a long time. In the 1990s the level of funding for mental health services was 14%. It is now somewhere in the region of less than 6%. I become cynical when I hear that it will be increased by 5.2% and when talk year after year of the figures of €41 million and €35 million. We never actually get our hands...
- Seanad: Health: Statements (21 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: I wish to share time with Senator Ó Donnghaile. We could form a multidisciplinary team in the House. We have GPs, mental health advocates, registered nurses, addiction and disability advocates among us. I ask the Minster to please include us on the health committee. I welcome the Minister of State. Some would commiserate with her on what is perceived as a poisoned chalice but,...
- Seanad: Mental Health: Statements (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: I thank the Minister of State and thank all Senators for their passionate speeches and statements on mental health. Mental health, according to the World Health Organization, is the most important public health issue. Even every poor society must afford to promote, protect and invest in it. Mental illness is the world's most neglected disease and the leading cause of disability worldwide....
- Seanad: Mental Health: Statements (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: It was privatisation.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: It is insulting to call people hysterical.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: There are no unions either.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Surely we are entitled to a copy of the Minister’s speech.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Why did the Minister call them hysterical?
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Fianna Fáil enabled Fine Gael to get into Government.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Holier than thou.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: Neither of you respect ordinary people.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: You made a faux pas. That is what you did.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Maire Devine: You think you are the only party-----