Results 2,201-2,220 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is agreed but can the Acting Chairman can give me a little additional time, given that I was going to look for something?
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Very well. I accept that.
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate Senator Butler's sharing his time with me. I thank the Minister of State for being in the House once again. I will tell the story of a business whose owner has written to me. The Minister of State does not like to be accused of being out of touch. I will not tell him he is out of touch because perhaps I am out of touch as well. We have said the blame game is over. If that is...
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sticking to the facts. I withdraw the name but the Member is in this House. It is absolutely appalling. We have a banking crisis that will result in a debt which will cost us â¬6 billion just to service by 2014. The Minister of State should get real and listen to the real issues affecting business. I do not ask him to listen to me but to the account I have read of the struggle of a...
- Seanad: Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (20 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Much has been said about the Roscommon abuse case. I am truly appalled by the lack of care for children in difficulty in this State. What is the point of the lessons of the past 20 years, to which Senator Bacik referred, if no one is held accountable for this horrid abuse and neglect? Is this just today's news? Is this just today's story? What progress has been made in implementing the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Deputy Leader to intervene for me on that issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a red herring.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Another one is coming.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And he is a disgrace to us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They will understand them for generations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second Senator Fitzgerald's timely motion on the need for the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House before the budget. Senator Ross also spelled it out. Yesterday I attended an OECD meeting about education being fundamental to enhancing growth in our economies. The clear message was that education should not be cut, that neither preschool, primary nor secondary should...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us work together with the students who are marching today because they are our future. We were those students 20 years ago. It is imperative that the Minister comes to the House. I felt very ashamed at the OECD meeting yesterday when other parliamentarians from other countries commented to me that Ireland used to be the model and they asked what happened us. They asked me, "What...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: As an Irish person abroad I was ashamed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Greens should do their duty; they can do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator had the benefit of free fees.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions (3 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I also welcome the Minister of State and hope she has a good response for me. The matter I am raising relates to a proposal mooted by the Minister for Social Protection sometime ago to means-test the State contributory pension. Does he propose to deprive people of something for which they have already paid, in some cases for more than 40 years or more in others, and which, in itself, is...