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Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I shall explain what I seek. We need business to work and to be released. NAMA was set up in order that credit would flow. I ask the Leader to invite the chief executive officer of NAMA, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, to the House in order that we might ask questions-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I seek answers as to how NAMA is serving the public good. I shall take the Leader's advice on whether we should first look to the Minister for Finance, but ultimately we should use the method he suggested today and invite persons to the House to answer direct questions. In that way this House might be accountable to the people.

Seanad: Tourism Sector: Motion (1 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, to the House. It is nice to see him in the right hot seat. This is a positive and forward-looking motion on which I congratulate Senator Paul Coghlan. Tourism spans the length and breadth of the country. It has the potential to benefit every parish and city and, uniquely for an industry, it distributes wealth. It has the potential to reach...

Seanad: Health Service Staff (1 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is welcome and I thank him for taking this Adjournment matter, I presume on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children. My request to the Minister of State is to ask the Minister for Health and Children whether the HSE will address, as a matter of urgency, the serious lack of community health doctors in County Galway, which now is putting the health of children at...

Seanad: Health Service Staff (1 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I acknowledge that this matter does not come within the remit of the Minister of State, but I thank him for his very generous remarks to us. This response is very worrying because it does not tie in with the facts as I have outlined them. Will the Minister of State acquaint the Minister for Health and Children with the facts about the shortage of doctors because they do not tie in with what...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We should use this House to shape policy to meet emerging needs in the economy. In view of that I request a debate on the education system and how it supports job creation and innovation. I refer in particular to the skill gaps identified here and the jobs that are available here that nobody can fill. To think that there are in region of 800 posts in IT for that graduates are not capable...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My questions have been delivered.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the cold hand of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the hand of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask for two debates in the House. One relates to information in the newspapers today indicating that we are likely to have the lowest number of students in a long time taking honours maths this year. What concerns me most is that Project Maths, which is being rolled out in pilot schools now, will have a very low take-up. The Minister for Education and Skills must ask why, as Project...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Under the terms of the public private partnership for the convention centre, we will pay €3.7 million for the next two years and a further €2 million per year for 20 years after that. Is it not the case that the State is taking up the slack from both ends?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are only in a transitional period from the last Government and perhaps many bad habits remain which must be cut off at the root. I will be keen to hear what the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has to say on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should change the name of his party to the Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin Party.

Seanad: Fourth Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Statements (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate the Leas-Chathaoirleach on his appointment and welcome the Minister. It is so nice to see her sitting where she is; as Senator Terry Leyden mentioned, she fought the good fight as leader of the Opposition here and has definitely earned her spot. It is heartening to see the Taoiseach making her role a full ministry and that the new Department is up and running. Considering...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be remiss of me not to mention Galway Airport. I am grateful that the Cabinet has made a decision to fund the airport for this year but it provides us with a major challenge because to attract new airlines one must offer a three-year contract. I accept what was said about creative solutions. I listened carefully to what Senator Feargal Quinn said, that Galway Airport could be on...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is a commitment in the programme for Government that we look at the electoral system as a whole not just Seanad reform. I accept that Seanad reform is important but in and of itself it is just an easy target. It will not solve any of the problems of this country. The debate should begin on the electoral system as a whole. Will the Leader consider a rolling debate, be it one day a...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for setting aside time tomorrow in order that we all can express condolences to the Lenihan family on the untimely passing of former Minister, Brian Lenihan. That is opportune and I will reserve my comments until then. I understand we will have the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill in the House in the next week or so. I have been offered the great task by our leader to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was in the Senator's party's budget last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should look at the example set by the previous Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator David Norris in his call for the renaming of Terminal 2 as James Joyce International Airport. It would be an appropriate recognition of Dublin's status as a UNESCO city of literature. I wish to raise a serious matter, on which I seek the support of the House. What does the country need to do to grow out of recession? The answer is jobs, export-led business and thriving...