Máire Devine

Listen to the defensiveness.

No.

Protect people. That is the job the Government is meant to do.

I welcome Mark and his family here. The family named her well as her name is Cara, a friend, and she has become a true friend to not just her brothers but to many in this country hoping for change and the delivery of care that the Government has failed to do. It has failed the children in my constituency and across this nation. It is a clear breach of the Disability Act and more than 15,000 childr…

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cummins for bringing this motion to the Dáil. It is a topic I hold dear to my heart. In my personal experience with my own children, I had little choice when I lived in Belfast prior to the Good Friday Agreement. I sent my children to the local Catholic school, particularly for protection at that time, given what was going on and the attacks on schools. It was for…

The early years education system in our country is broken. There are thousands of children languishing on lists for places that parents can pay up to €1,000 per month to early years educators who themselves are underpaid and undervalued by this and successive Governments. In the past, the subsidies the Government introduced were welcome but turned out to be cumbersome, off-putting and confusing, t…

I have been involved in this children's hospital saga since its conception in 2015. I have witnessed much of St. James's Hospital, also known as the South Dublin Union, giving way to development. Gone are the 16 weeping willows planted in 1966 and it was disappointing not to see the flag hoisted this weekend. The children's hospital illuminates my street and the surrounds of Rialto and Kilmainham.…

Deputy Cleere has gone but there is a time and a place for congratulations.

This is a sensitive, distressing and very damaging space we need to talk about. I am not a begrudger but this is not the most appropriate place to congratulate a camogie team. I will start with something I have worked with all my life. The oath medics take is "first, do no harm". It has been proved CHI and those involved have done absolutely horrific harm. Harm has been done to our children and t…

To quote a wise man I know, “Inequality is our Trojan horse.” Adolescents in our inner cities face harrowing challenges in their environments due to inequality and disadvantage brought on by neglect. The term "age-friendly cities" must be expanded to include adolescents in particular, who presently have no input into the amenities and features of their surroundings in their public realm and are o…

This is comical.

Shame on you.

The Taoiseach should not be so hysterical.

Hysteria.

On the Taoiseach's terms and Deputy Michael Lowry's terms.

On Deputy Lowry's terms.

He is not shouting you down.

Chill.

Spin, spin, spin.

You are doing it yourselves.

Agreed.

Now that you got your own way.

We are asking the question------

A dirty deal.

A dirty deal.