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- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the calls for a debate on the role of young people in Irish society and how they are treated. The only options available to young people at present, while the unemployment rate is so high, are education or emigration. We must tread carefully with regard to education. There is a tipping point beyond which things could get really bad for young people. Yes, invite the Minister,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time we stood up together and said who should bear responsibility for sick pay. Currently, the private sector employee is out sick for an average of six days per year whereas the average public sector worker is out sick for 11 days per year. We must grasp this nettle and say what is fair given the finances in the State.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: You got your chance and you blew it. You created all the lies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Last night a gentlemen who came to see me here in the House asked me if I realised we were in war time and asked what happens during war time. When put starkly like that, one rethinks everything. At this juncture, we must guard our fundamentals where possible. For that reason, I believe strongly that employers, the source of our jobs, must not be made to pay further for absenteeism. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do, but I would like to make this point because I have waited a long time for the opportunity to do so. There is significant waste at the top and I wonder whether we can continue to afford to have university residences for our university presidents. We are in war time and must look at everything. All bets are off and we must consider whom we should serve. We need to serve our citizens...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House. She raised many important issues, some of which I will address while addressing other more general points. The Department has two important roles. First, poverty is an increasing factor in society and the State must try to ensure every person has adequate income and resources to live with dignity. Second, the Department must ensure a balance between...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The programme for Government indicated that â¬800 million would be made up through pensions. The pension levy is expected to earn the State â¬1.8 billion over four years. If we reduce tax relief on pensions, we will kill off the attractiveness of investing in a pension that is good for the State and individuals. Life expectancy is now longer and if we decrease the tax relief on pensions...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How could a person be incentivised to invest in a pension if that person only gets 20% tax relief going in and must pay 51% coming out. That is the current position. I would be delighted to hear answers to my questions.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A meeting with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is required because talks should be entered into with those companies that are at risk. If the Department paid out â¬11 million, it is madness.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Anyone on social welfare-----
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----architects and solicitors are also on social welfare.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It was 1994-98.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This Government has been endeavouring to help unemployed people in genuine ways. I am shocked and disappointed that in recent days, the INTO has decided to issue a directive to its 32,000 members to the effect that they should not participate in the JobBridge internship scheme for newly qualified teachers. Everyone in this House should come together to say that is neither acceptable nor...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There is no need for it. I appeal to the Leader to seek a response from the Minister, Deputy Quinn, on the question of the type of negotiations he is involved in with the teacher unions. If he gets a response, perhaps he will bring it back to the House tomorrow.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: As a former member of the INTO, I am very disappointed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Members opposite should remember the word "amnesia".
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government faces an incredible task to have to try and find â¬3.8 billion in cuts in next month's budget. We wonder why there might be speculation, which I cannot confirm, about a â¬50 medical card charge on application. The answer might lie this morning in the fact that the EU will monitor us long after 2013 when we might get back into the markets. Such is the level of intrusive EU...