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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Some €600 million to €1 billion.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is more than just the banking figures.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like all the other budgets.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Members learned today that up to €15 billion in adjustments will be needed over the next four budgets - double the hole, double the pain. When will it stop? Where is the outrage? I second the amendment to the Order of Business tabled by Senator Fitzgerald. I again ask the Leader how long was the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, aware of this because it was not just yesterday....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, it would because-----

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----there is no confidence in the Government and no good news is coming out from Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The second issue I wish to raise with the Leader is the extent to which the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills is out of touch with the scale of unemployment among young teachers. I am shocked and galled that of 400 graduates from one of our teacher training colleges this year, only 30 are employed. The Tánaiste does not even need the public finances to be rectified to fix the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It should for the country, not for me.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that not just cute hoorism?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. While this proposal is interesting, I wish to tease it out a little. My understanding at the outset is that the Minister of State is pursuing the €3 million in savings proposed by Professor McCarthy in the report by an bord snip nua. My proposal to the Minister of State is that this money can be saved without mergers in most cases and that,...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To sum up in regard to the VEC issue, we are very disappointed. It is clear no thought went into it and it is a half-baked approach to restructuring. Listening to how it was managed, it seems as if the Department just added up the money to ensure every VEC cost approximately €50 million to run. That is very disappointing because this should be about an education service. I appeal to the...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The matter I have tabled refers to school chairs. While this might seem trivial, I have some good news in that it will not cost a penny but will save many people's backs from future pain. Is the Department of Health and Children aware of the long-term damage to children's backs and overall posture caused by backward-sloping school chairs that are used as standard practice in all Irish...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who informs the standard, IS EN 1729, to which the Minister of State refers? Does it relate to sloping chairs? If so, how can we change the practice that obtains?

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate that, especially in the context of preventing damage to children's backs.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the calls for a debate on education. The education system, particularly at primary and second level, urgently needs protection. As I have heard others such as Senator Ross state in this House previously, there has never been that much fat there. We are now approaching a budget where that is under threat again. We are told it is one of the biggest Departments and we must look...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need to hurry.

Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly. There is nothing else left.

Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I make a contribution?

Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Acting Chairman confirm that I will get a chance to speak?

Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, may I check-----