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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To what is the Minister of State referring?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Please remind me.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know to what Deputy Cuffe refers.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The people did not feel that.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On this issue of substitute consent, I echo a number of concerns that have come to me from already legal, compliant small quarries in Galway, and I am sure this applies nationwide. I emphasise at the outset that the quarries to which I refer are already legal, compliant and with planning. They are not the ones that are illegal, which I completely accept are out of order and which the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking to this set of amendments on quarries.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I refer to the substitute consent issue.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is where the Minister is requiring quarries to apply for substitute consent to An Bord Pleanála when their extracted area is over 3.5 hectares. Some of these small quarries' extracted areas are already over 3.5 hectares if one takes into account their roads and through-ways. On this ruling, can the Minister of State clarify if the Department will be adding the roads and the through-ways...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is not a Second Stage speech. This is a point. Is it possible to increase the extracted area to five hectares or ensure a quarry may apply to An Bord Pleanála for substitute consent without incurring fees? This would mean jobs would not be lost as a result of the measure. I have no difficulty with the proposal as long as we are not damaging people's livelihoods.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What a joke.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who is in charge?

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are a proud and resilient people with a history of oppression. The most common question I have been asked throughout the summer, and especially in recent days, is "Are we getting there?". People want to know how we are faring as a nation. Have the cuts and austerity measures paid off? Has all the money we have given to the banks made a difference? I fear we are losing the war. That...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share two minutes with Senator Twomey.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome everyone back to the House. I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, is present. It is good that he is in the health portfolio. He will not be surprised if I focus in particular on Galway and HSE west. He is aware that a serious high level meeting took place yesterday with the Western Regional Health Forum. The Health Service Executive says that cutbacks in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Why were they not removed sooner?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And Galway.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the Government's only way of staying there, its only way of surviving.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is defaulting on citizens.