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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I am confused. In the Leader's response to me, he kept stating that the Minister will attend the House. I understand she will do so regarding the Private Members' motion on drugs. Is the Leader suggesting it is appropriate to raise wider issues?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is he suggesting that it is appropriate to raise wider issues around education?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Cannon in regard to REPS payments for farmers and concur with Senator Fitzgerald on the urgency of the crisis pertaining to pharmacists. Between now and 1 March, I ask the Leader to use his good office to ensure all preconditions contained in the interim contract proposed by the Minister for Health and Children for pharmacists are removed and that the contract is...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate the Cathaoirleach's good words but I ask the Leader to intervene with the Minister on the issue. Yesterday, the issue was debated for five hours by the Joint Committee on Health and Children. We expected an agreed motion to be produced by the Government side this morning but it was not forthcoming. The most seriously ill people in our community should not be made to pay....

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader indicate on tomorrow's Order of Business whether it was possible to make progress with the Minister in respect of this matter?

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for deputising for the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey. My issue this evening is the need for the Minister for Transport to clarify the timeframe for the implementation of the Claregalway bypass, as he indicated and promised in the programme for Government. I trust the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, is familiar with the case. Claregalway is a...

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am a little confused by some of the information he has provided. He stated that the programme for Government includes a commitment, in the context of the NRA programme, that Claregalway is to be bypassed by 2012. Does this refer to the N17 or to the separate relief road that I stated was needed and which the people expect? This is what they...

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I see. I will finish on this point.

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Minister of State suggesting the county council is holding up this project? On receipt of the new documentation from Galway County Council, when will the money be sanctioned?

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I require an answer to my question.

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Members should find out.

Seanad: Road Network (13 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It might qualify.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the Government's fault.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Last night in the Dáil the Government voted against the appropriate education of children with autism. I am saddened by this outcome and I support the call for a debate on this. If the Minister for Education and Science is serious about the appropriate education of children with autism, she will conduct research into both the eclectic method of teaching, which she favours for financial...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I need to say my piece. The Government is wronging children with autism. They do not receive an appropriate education and if the Minister is to do them due service, she must take time before she rules out centres providing ABA tuition and she must merge ABA central to the autistic units.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Education and Science back to the House to resume the debate, which is not over? This is a valid House, which needs to convey its views on education for autistic children. Last week I raised the issue of 25 young mothers in education in Galway city who are at high risk of falling out of the system because the Minister of State at the Department of...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should have a word with the Taoiseach.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Male and female.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Everything about which I will speak this morning is a crisis. I asked the Leader to intervene last week with regard to the pharmacy issue. We are within ten days of the deadline. Have we given up on talks? Has the Leader had any success in persuading the Minister for Health and Children to pull back from the 1 March deadline so that talks can be reopened with the Irish Pharmaceutical...