Results 1-20 of 109 for long speaker:Maire Devine

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)

Maire Devine: ...attendance of Senators and Deputies at the launch of the pre-budget submission. The majority of people with dementia live at home and want to remain there but they need support to do so. For too long, home care has been simply a solution to the hospital crisis and not an integral, long-term part of dementia care. Appropriate home care can keep people well in the community and out of...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Maire Devine: ...establishment of the Oireachtas committee and I hope that today's proceedings will get somewhere. Picking up on various points, Ms. Sherlock referred to surveys and mental health issues. I worked for a long time as a psychiatric nurse in a previous life and I have my own issues as to how in retrospect Travellers were treated within the health service, which was so eloquently and sadly...

Seanad: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2019)

Maire Devine: ...glitch in June, which concerns 800 women who had repeated the test because of the previous scandal. A female friend of mine had a test in December and only got the results a week ago. It is a very long wait. In some cases it is far too long. Have the resources put into the screen test been improved? Will the Minister spell this out? What is the average wait for these tests? How can...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Maire Devine: ...Women". It was extremely powerful. It reminded me of the journey we have made and I have been involved in some of its latter stages. It showed how women have been incarcerated in this country for a long time. I am grateful the women who were in the programme, and I offer a special "Thank you" to one of the secretarial assistant staff in the Seanad, Samantha Long, who conducted a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2019)

Maire Devine: ...the cost, procurement and agreement we have. Today the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association, IPHA, is having a conference. It informed me that Irish patients must wait three times as long for the same medicines as patients in other European countries. Here it is an average of 843 days for 15 new medicines to be funded by the HSE compared with 289 days for patients in 14...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Maire Devine: ...in school. Our visitors from Bishopstown community school are in the part of the Visitors Gallery that is normally restricted to visiting presidents and other VIPs. The deaf community has taken a long road and spent many years in getting this far. Senator Mark Daly has pushed this issue for a long time. It sticks in my throat a little that it has taken so long to get this far. I am...

Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Maire Devine: It seems this House should go into a formal group hug, although I am completely opposed to that, Grinch that I can sometimes be. We should never forget how long the struggle by trade unions and workers has taken to get this legislation.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Maire Devine: For how long it lasts.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Maire Devine: I ask him not to take too long about it.

Seanad: Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 May 2018)

Maire Devine: I have thought long and hard about it and I believe we should take it next Tuesday, 22 May 2018.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Maire Devine: I think this is out of order. The Senator has gone on too long.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Maire Devine: It has been a very long night.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Maire Devine: He is still talking. He said that he would not be long.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Maire Devine: It was my fault. That is grand. I thank the Cathaoirleach very much. I will not be long.

Seanad: Appointment of Sarcoma Specialist at St. Vincent's University Hospital: Statements (12 Dec 2019)

Maire Devine: ...State to ask the Minister to seek an update from the hospital, particularly given that the interviews will not be held until January, because we need to keep the pressure on. We must avoid another long delay. This needs to be done as soon as possible

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Maire Devine: Having been a nurse, I want to have my say and place on record my view that this House should support nurses given the recruitment and retention issues we have spoken about for so long and the crisis in our health service. I want to extend my best wishes to the nurses who are about to commence their first 24-hour strike.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Maire Devine: ...to talk to their friends and other politicians and to urge them to vote this afternoon. This is about mental health services and is really relevant. We have been banging on about it for a long time, some ten years. Over 70% of A Vision for Change has not been implemented.

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Maire Devine: I stand on principle because Fianna Fáil Senators will not speak at all. We spent a long time, took it seriously and deliberated on it upside down and inside out. It is an extremely important issue. I apologise but we have decided not to support the amendment. We will not support it because it will result in the dilution of the presence of a named individual, in this case a Senator....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2016)

Maire Devine: Many of the questions I asked have not been answered, which is disappointing. For the past year or so, or perhaps a bit longer, the patients were very competently served by a previous oncologist with a specialism in sarcoma. All they are looking for is somebody with expertise, interest, knowledge and research relating to sarcoma. There was something rotten, perhaps, in the state of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Maire Devine: ...the Government and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, indicated and acknowledged that to exclude specific cases was a mistake. I welcome this more constructive approach; it is long overdue. There is a need for compassion towards women whose only crime was being poor and vulnerable and who were considered and treated as being worthless by society. I ask that the...