Results 1-12 of 12 for waste management speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...what is happening on the ground. I know he will fix it. I am just telling him about the feedback I have received in the last two days. I think it is a valid point. We do not want a new middle management layer in the councils. That is what we got in the HSE and it led to public waste. We can do very little about it now. As someone who used to run a small business with six employees, I...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...schools were classified at the time as being at the same stage. These other primary schools have all advanced, but this school has not, which has caused much grief for the principal, board of management, parents and children. To provide the background for the Minister of State, Scoil Mhuire is a ten-classroom school catering for 272 children in the Clarinbridge area. It has six...

Seanad: Restructuring of Vocational Education Committees: Statements (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...My proposal to the Minister of State is that this money can be saved without mergers in most cases and that, most importantly, the education service can be saved. The feedback I have received from managers, tutors and administrative staff is that the education service is likely to be compromised until a smooth merger can take place, if ever. Consequently, I was glad to hear the praise...

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...perceived as a basket case and the markets treat us like mugs. This is for three main reasons. Our basic figures are bad because we have a terrible budget deficit and a terrible bank story. Our management of our economy is perceived as disastrous in terms of corporate governance, and the Minister of State has seen what we have seen in FÁS, the HSE and throughout the Civil Service with...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (12 May 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...sector. Senator Joe O'Reilly mentioned putting a few breadcrumbs on meat but, with respect to the Senator, there is more involved. There is a greater dependence on CAP now due to cuts and the mismanagement of public finances by the Government. Installation aid is gone, REPS payments are down 22% and headage is down by 25%. There is a mess in the farm waste management scheme and the...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...are down 30% on last year and were down 12% on the previous year, a fall of 42% within two years. As other speakers have observed, those same farmers have suffered REPS cuts, delays in the farm waste management scheme and the complete cut in installation aid for young farmers. A total of 10,000 farmers are on farm assist. It is very difficult to qualify for farm assist. It is a...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (1 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...is the biggest issue. There is wide agreement that it cannot tax its way out of the recession. It is considering cuts to spending, some of which we support. We would particularly support cuts to waste. Only yesterday, I met a person with a small enterprise who has 13 people working for him. He is a supplier of goods to the HSE. He told me he faces other suppliers giving backhanders...

Seanad: Forthcoming Budget: Statements (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...REPS payment. That payment is central to farmers' incomes and to our protection of the environment and waterways. Contracts have been signed. I am aware contracts were signed with regard to farm waste management and that adjustments had to be made to these, but there must be no change to REPS payments. The suckler cow scheme is particularly important for west of Ireland farmers because...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...to also come clean and give information for the sake of the country's political and economic stability. It is really a case of Rome burning while Nero fiddles, and the farmer is now burnt. Poor management by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to the farm waste management scheme leaves some farmers in dire straits. Some 1,400 farmers in Galway have not been paid...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to please bring the Minister into the Seanad as a matter of urgency to address the issue of the farm waste management scheme.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (19 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...employees go. The businesses will keep going but with fewer employees. We must look at being responsible and suspending the pay deal. We must examine introducing a redundancy scheme to get rid of waste in the Health Service Executive. When the health boards were merged into the HSE, people found themselves at middle management level without job descriptions. They are still there. Let...

Seanad: Gun Crime: Statements (18 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...also a small minority of parents who do not want to parent and who allow their children to run wild. It is time to give up on such parents. These are harsh words, but when school principals and management boards blame parents, it is often a cop-out on the part of the schools. We know in our heart that such parents will not intervene. I have done a considerable amount of research into...