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- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's position is changing from ourselves alone.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Those are questions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is hard to take the level of denial in this Chamber and from Ministers in the past few days. I understand why, as the meltdown has happened on their watch. However, I ask them to face up to it, as they are heaping worry on the people. Senator Corrigan spoke about the human price. People matter. I was not able to sleep for quite a proportion of the night, thinking about our great...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to it. Even in my own life, I ask myself how I will manage to pay my bills. Last night I had to rely on a former IMF board member to tell me on "Prime Time" what might happen when the IMF came in. Why do we have to rely on commentators such as an NUIG economist? Why can we not rely on the Government, the members of which have been given consent to govern? They should not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is my question to the Leader. Will he speak to the Cabinet on behalf of Members of this House and ask for leadership and a way forward for the people? When the heavies come here from the European Union, the IMF and the ECB tomorrow, will the Leader ask them, in their macro-economic structure for Ireland, to ensure a fair structure for Irish citizens in meeting their bills? We are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader ask the Minister of State with responsibility for this matter, Deputy Mansergh, to expedite emergency legislation to prevent a future disaster and protect families affected by flooding?
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for taking this matter. I ask the Minister for Education and Skills, in view of the current over-capacity and ongoing demand for school places in Calasanctius College in Oranmore, if she will outline the current status of the application for new accommodation, including the timeframe for delivery. This happens to be the local secondary school in...
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am pleased to learn of the recent meeting between the Tánaiste and the school's board of management. The area east of Galway city is expanding and will require a further new school in addition to the accommodation required in Calasanctius College. I implore the Department to deal with the matter in a timely fashion.
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a matter for the Department to address.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Honesty has also entered the equation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator might as well justify it now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Why did the Government not admit what was happening last weekend?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have listened to the contributions of other Members and agree that there is a need for calm. The only relevant question now is: what is in the best interests of the country and its people? Yesterday's announcement by the Green Party and subsequently the Taoiseach drove people across the country crazy. Yesterday in Galway I met families, farmers and people with disabilities who expressed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appeal to Fianna Fáil and the Taoiseach to give us a roadmap that will work in order that this can be done easily. Is the best roadmap for this country a Government that has made so many mistakes putting a budget through for which it will not be accountable or offering an immediate general election following which a new Government â who knows who will be in it â will construct a...
- Seanad: Protected Species (23 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: While the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government threw the country into turmoil yesterday, I hope he will not do the same to the deer in question this evening. Will he restrict the issuing of section 42 licences for female deer from May to August to enable calves to become independent? This matter has been brought to my attention by people involved in wildlife...
- Seanad: Protected Species (23 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted the Minister made an exception this summer and ensured over 30% of the section 42 permissions issued for deer excluded the shooting of female deer. It is important, however, that it is made policy in order that it will be the exception rather than the norm that permissions are issued during the lactation period of female deer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We learn in today's newspapers that 10% of young people are waiting for a mental health service in the Health Service Executive west and south areas and that one in seven students are being taught maths and English poorly in primary school, with 20% of teachers unprepared. We need to debate these two issues. These are the young people's lives that matter. All of this is happening against a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is estimated that we need â¬10 billion a year just to service the debt. We simply will not be able to afford it and we cannot. We have reached a critical moment in the negotiations with the IMF, the European Union and the ECB and should not blow it. If the Government does, will it, please, hand over the mantle of responsibility to someone else? It should draw on every piece of advice...