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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Wow.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is life through Fianna Fáil eyes.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The mechanism is too slow.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Minister Leyden.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The poor state of the public finances and the harsh austerity measures being imposed on us are dictating the quality of our lives and services. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, is doing an incredible job for us in Europe to try to claw back some sense of decency for us as a country and to get the best terms possible to deal with the financial situation we have inherited. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I seek a debate on the matter. We are in a tough financial state. How can we protect children in classrooms with disabilities and learning difficulties while doing the same thing? We are in difficulty and we must look at other models of doing that while keeping children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. It is time we looked at new ways. I visited the united Kingdom last year...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. I saw another way to achieve the same outcomes. It is time we looked at that in this House because we must find other ways to achieve the same outcomes.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I concur with Senator Bacik regarding the danger of the severe cuts to resource teachers for Traveller children. These cuts will not only affect Traveller children; they will affect all our children. Travellers are particularly at risk of early school leaving. Last autumn this House completed an Oireachtas report on preventing early school leaving which heard from many parts of society and...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No matter what Senators may say, we face a major challenge in terms of communicating information about the work we do in this House and also the value of such work. In that context, I support the comments made by Senators Gilroy and Mullen that a way must be found to put in place an extended process of consultation. We should approach broadcasters - perhaps, as Senator Gilroy stated, TG4 -...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When it was put to the Minister, he provided 14.5 of those nurses because the HSE was not doing its job. The Minister will be coming to the House soon and I know he is up to his eyes with requests for meetings. He has 600 meetings on his plate at the moment. However, he is doing his utmost. How can communication be improved? The HSE is operating like a republic on its own because of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Fianna Fáil created the monster.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are cleaning up the previous Government's mess.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And less cost to the Exchequer.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House and wish her success in her key national brief. I also welcome the advancement of the Bill in the Seanad. As the new Seanad spokesperson on social protection for Fine Gael, I have followed the debate on the passage of the legislation through the Dáil and I have been impressed by the Minister's cogent and comprehensive rationale on each of the proposed...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept there is a key issue-----

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept there is a key issue between bridging the gap between expenditure and income. Why does Senator Mooney think the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, is spending every waking hour working on the issue, if not for that very reason? Before we consider the provisions of the Bill, the Fine Gael and Labour programme for Government is dealing with this appalling vista head-on. It has...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I compliment the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, for his handling of the bonus that Mr. Collier at DAA thought he could draw down at this point. There is a serious issue here with regard to the bonus culture that has been cultivated over many years for the CEOs of semi-State companies. These CEOs command incredible salaries. In 2009, the CEO of ESB claimed...