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- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is useless. Standards should be monitored.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Leyden is on the wire now and that is why he wants reform.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Every family in this country will be approximately â¬3,000 worse off as a result of the budget yesterday. However, this country could face nothing worse right now than a recession in our education system. It is an outrage and alarming for this country that in terms of literacy standards it has fallen from fifth to 17th place in the OECD and in terms of mathematics standards it has fallen...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a very serious and retrograde stop. I thank the Cathaoirleach for giving me the time to make this point, but standards will not improve until the Government stops being complacent.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: One in six is still dropping out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Good.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister needs to consult her officials.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: People must come first.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am stunned that â¬40 million will be paid in bonuses by AIB. It may be an entitlement legally, but morally it is indefensible. Was the Government aware that this was in process when nationalising the bank? What type of negotiators did the Government employ since they could not strike a deal on behalf of the taxpayer contingent on bonuses not being paid? Then AIB would have had to put...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A new poverty trap is being created, as Senator Coffey pointed out. The Government parties do not get much right, but they should be careful to poverty-proof policies and fix anomalies. The public's trust in politics is declining. Transparency Ireland has announced that Ireland is rated top of the world by its own people for cronyism, clientelism and corruption. What will the Government do...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That late.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is on the Order Paper.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the Senator's party that is in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is one for the record.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is living in fantasy land.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We have spoken today about bankers and their bonuses, and we have learnt that the sham culture of banking still exists. Senator Ross is right to ask what the Minister for Finance has done about the attitude that exists in the banks. What has gone on is an outrage. I raise this issue again based on the fact a major file is about to go to the DPP's office on the Anglo investigation. Today, I...