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Seanad: Genetic Testing: Motion (10 Jul 2019)

Maire Devine: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the motion and I am proud to speak on behalf of Sinn Féin. I thank Senator Norris for extending the opportunity to add my name to this very worthy motion. The issue has already been discussed in the Lower House, where a Sinn Féin amendment to a motion included a call for a newborn screening test. In this State newborn babies...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2019)

Maire Devine: The report on the mother and baby homes published today is the fifth interim report and we have watched each one, as have the relatives of the women in the mother and baby homes. They have stuck with this over the years and many of them are now elderly and frail. Some have sadly passed on without learning what happened to their children, their brothers, sisters and even their mothers. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Maire Devine: ...the House by a bereft family who lost their young daughter to suicide a few months ago. They are calling for the introduction of a new law, Coco's law. I am aware of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs report that was recently launched. We asked that digital harassment be included in the legislation to mitigate against and be a major deterrent to bullies online. That is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Maire Devine: I am usually brief but do not quote me on that. In the interests of brevity, I will only ask questions, although I can make statements. I thank Mr. Walsh and Dr. McCormack for their briefings on CHO 7. The Chairman will discuss the issue of money, as not being able to discover what the budget is has got us around this table numerous times. I will ask different questions. Some are...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Maire Devine: I want to take us back to the Ireland of the 1980s. I was quite a young adult then and obviously a young female. It was a dismissive society with rules legislating for the very patriarchal manner in which it was run. Women and girls were controlled by the State and the church. We were intimidated and bullied. The State reigned over half its population. On the surface, it was venerating...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2017)

Maire Devine: I want to make reference to the interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes which Senator Boyhan mentioned. There has been a lot of mixed reaction and disappointment to the pushing out of this report. I have submitted a Commencement matter for tomorrow through which I hope we can explore this issue further. I add my voice and that of this House to global...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Maire Devine: I am asking today for an update on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. I appreciate that the Minister, Deputy Katherine Zappone, has published monthly updates on the website of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and is planning to bring proposals resulting from the recent facilitated meetings across the country to Cabinet. I am also aware that there will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Maire Devine: On a sombre note, I remind members why we are here. My colleague, Deputy Pat Buckley, has just taken his fourth call this week advising that a mother of four young girls has taken her life. That is the fourth one he has experienced in the local area. It is a stark reminder of why we are here. It is to prevent young girls having to grow up without a mother. We talked about resilience in...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Maire Devine: It has been an interesting day. We deal with these matters in terms of questions concerning mental health facilities at the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, which is ongoing. In the context of mental health reform, the priority is approved centres. Therefore, we have a dearth of child and adolescent mental health services because we have to go with the approved centres in the...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (17 May 2017)

Maire Devine: On a point of clarification, is the time for statements on the second interim report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes reduced?

Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)

Maire Devine: What happened to them then? This was in 2012 and we had complete silence and nothing was heard. The next time the documents reared their heads, it seems, was in 2014 when the interdepartmental group report on mother and baby homes was published. However, the 1,000 files were not included in that particular report. Instead, according to correspondence from the HSE, the files were handed...

Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)

Maire Devine: They have done their part and that shames us. This is now up to Members in these Houses. The Seanad should schedule statements on this matter as soon as possible. We cannot mismanage this again but it is exactly what we are doing. I think it is more than mismanagement. It is a deliberate concealment of the historic files of 1,000 women and perhaps 1,500 babies. It distresses me and I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Maire Devine: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I would like an invitation to be extended as a matter of urgency to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, to come to the Chamber to respond to questions on the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes which was published yesterday and her response to it. The survivor...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Maire Devine: I welcome the Minister back to the House on another very sad occasion in our collective history. The outrage and sadness throughout the country is palpable. We have staggered from scandal to scandal in recent years and it has sent the country reeling. People are disturbed, shocked and bewildered. We are a society in mourning for the countless losses and deaths and the unspeakable criminal...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Maire Devine: There are many issues to raise but, along with many others, I really need to raise the Tuam babies case and mother and baby institutions. Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and to gel it all together I was at the Flowers for Magdalenes event on Sunday. This is the sixth time we have hosted the event. I listened to the stories of the women. One woman said: "They took my hair;...

Seanad: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Maire Devine: Probably. Symphysiotomy, a word I have difficulty pronouncing, is a barbaric and medieval practice, which was carried out for many years in this State. It is a procedure that women were advised to undergo without knowledge of what it involved. Symphysiotomy is a similar to the spatchcock cooking technique used in the preparation of birds. It involves the use of a chainsaw and was often...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Maire Devine: ...have been cancelled in the emergency department at St. James Hospital this morning because staff are being pushed to the limit. We are now at breaking point. I again refer to the treatment of mothers and their children. One of the scandals that was allowed to occur in mother and baby homes in the 1960s was the carrying out of vaccine trials on women and children. The inquiry of the...

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...