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Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I commend Senator Freeman on getting the Bill to Committee Stage. I spoke in support of it on Second Stage. On the section, we need to try to do something about social media. Much of the work done on it is piecemeal because it is such a massive area that one can throw up one's hands and ask where one should start. Senator Freeman has started with the protection of the most vulnerable. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: There has been mention of a 70 year old farmer who might find it very difficult to make the transition. Has there been much engagement with the younger cohort, which may well be more positive about a transition that would improve the land as a carbon sink? I know Professor FitzGerald does not wish to talk about the dietary aspects but that research is important. In my niece's school and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I am not advocating that Professor FitzGerald should do it. I am just saying this revolution in dietary habits is coming from the younger population.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I second Senator Nash's amendment to the Order of Business. This morning I attended a presentation made by Senator Freeman in the AV room on the Children's Digital Protection Bill which we discussed last year and has reached Committee Stage. Its purpose is to safeguard children exposed to legal but harmful and age inappropriate web content and place responsibility on the hosts for the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2019: First Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I second the motion.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Mental Health Week is kicking off today with events throughout the country. This morning, I attended the Oireachtas health and well-being team's information and coffee morning. The team will roll out events for Members and staff. I urge everyone to attend when information on them is put up on the Plinth website. It is concerning that, during world mental health week, the Government failed...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I made my statement on the budget last night to a less than full House, which was unfortunate. I welcomed the initiative to appoint a just transition commissioner. It is envisaged that the commissioner will engage with relevant stakeholders, in particular in the midlands where Bord na Móna has announced it will close 17 bogs which will make 430 employees redundant. I have always...

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I will try to be concise and constructive in the few words that I have to say about this Bill. When it comes to Brexit and related matters, Sinn Féin has supported the Government's position and given credit where it is due. For some time, we have called for a solution to be found by the Irish Government and European Union on the issue of the...

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I move amendment No. 2:In page 8, line 18, after " "(iva)" to insert the following:"an Irish citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, a British citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, and". Senator Higgins asked if I could speak on her behalf about her amendments.

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: So that is it then. They are gone into the ether.

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: My amendments are okay.

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Both of these amendments pertain to the Childcare Support Act 2018, which was alluded to by the Minister. The Bill provides for British citizens to access the national childcare scheme on the same basis as Irish citizens and assesses British citizens in the same manner as the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004, which states that a British citizen means a citizen of the United Kingdom...

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I need to go through it with more of a fine-tooth comb. I will not press it to a vote but I thank the Minister of State for the explanation.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: We support amendment No. 16. No person should be forced into getting a public services card to make a transaction. We note, as Senator Higgins said, that the Data Protection Commission has ruled that an obligation for anybody other than the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is illegal and cannot happen, but that this seems to have been ignored by the Department of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Sinn Féin supports this amendment. A child turns 14 and this is the most expensive time of a parent's life where he or she is crucified with costs for socialising, etc. Children learn to socialise and get out there at that age and they probably get up to stuff they should not be doing. It is a massive cost for the parent and for a lone parent to feel these cuts and not allow children...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I am sorry-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: I know that today is all about the Budget Statement. I wish to review an issue I first raised as a Commencement matter in June 2016, a couple of months after my election to the Seanad, namely, the recruitment of a specialist in sarcoma at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. We had a wonderful Italian consultant and the patients, many of whom have passed away, and their families were delighted...

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: Is the Acting Chairman not impartial?