Results 2,081-2,100 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What timeline does the Minister of State envisage in respect of the aforementioned 20 couples?
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister of State perceive this to be dependent on-----
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will take the opportunity to raise with the Minister of State the issue of the files that continue to be held up with regard to Russian adoptions. I ask him to address the failure of the HSE to complete the post-placement records of children placed in Ireland and the manner in which this is preventing further adoptions from Russia to Ireland.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Indeed.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What can be done to force individual couples who may be holding up the process to comply?
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can we not appeal to them on moral grounds?
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They are preventing other Irish couples from adopting.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are such couples written to?
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The legislative process has continued for a year and three or four months. We have soldiered into the Chamber at various Stages of the Bill. I am delighted this country will be formally compliant with the Hague Convention on the enactment of the Bill. As a prospective adoptive parent in the mid-1990s I was assessed according to the terms of the Hague Convention. To be fair to the former...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Fianna Fáil has fallen off its bike.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to propose an amendment to the Order of Business to urgently request the attendance in the House of the Minister of State with responsibility for people with disabilities, Deputy Moloney. Over the weekend and last evening, all Members will have seen devastating reports about families that have been left bereft of services. The HSE in Galway is now asking for a second cut of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should not forget the west.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: As Deputy Michael Noonan said it is pathetic.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Unfortunately, cancer remains one of the top three killers in this country and, given the figures Senator Quinn recounted, it appears it will remain so for some time. What is the most important thing to consider in cancer care? It is the quality of the care the patient receives, the environment and atmosphere in which that care is delivered, and whether the staff are tense or can genuinely...
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I heard that and qualified what I said but my basic point is that we must look at wherever there is good practice that puts the patient first and is a success story. Let us not close such places. Let us look seriously at building St. Luke's as a satellite centre to support St. James's, as was suggested in this Chamber. Those are my few words. I ask the Minister of State to comment on the...
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.