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- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate if I could finish the sentence. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, for her solid performance on "The Frontline". A debate is needed on the positives and the negatives.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, I am finishing within two minutes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I refer to the positives and the negatives of a European treaty. There might be more positives than we might think.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is welcome. We must face up to the reality and we all knew the 2012 budget would be very tough. I do not know how we could expect the Department of Social Protection to escape having to make cuts while other Departments would implement them. I compliment the Minister at the outset on being as fair as she can while acknowledging that adjustments must be made in the area of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Does it relate to people with intellectual disabilities?
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is an important clarification. I accept the Minister will attend the House again on Thursday when we will be able to iron out some more anomalies. I would be delighted if she responded to my question on redundancies from community employment schemes and what we owe in terms of payments. I refer to the family that is very concerned.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a fair point.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I raised a question at the beginning about families being unhappy that carer's allowance was being put against FIS.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will respond to the previous comment made by Senator Cullinane. DEIS is a new and wider classification for disadvantaged schools that followed the giving children an even break programme. I would welcome a clarification in this regard from the Minister, Deputy Quinn, to whom my second item this morning also pertains. In the previous Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science,...
- Seanad: Garda Stations (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House. It is not too often that I have the opportunity to address him, but on this occasion I am asking him to explain the rationale for the proposed closure of Corrandulla Garda barracks in County Galway, and how the area will be serviced, should the closure go ahead. The closure of 31 Garda stations was announced on 5 December 2011,...
- Seanad: Garda Stations (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is fine.
- Seanad: Garda Stations (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There is a small degree of conflict between the information provided by the Minister and that available to me. I do not know whether the information provided by him is correct. People living in the area have informed me that Corrandulla is served by the Garda station in Tuam, but the Minister has indicated that it is located in the Galway district. It would certainly be more appropriate...
- Seanad: Garda Stations (14 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will reserve most of my comments for the debate on the various sections. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, had a rotten job but someone had to do it.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I mean it in the sense thatââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to say a few words, if I may.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a difficult job, but I will hang on to what the Minister said recently, namely, that she wanted to steer the Department of Social Protection towards a culture of enablement. That is a fine principle, one I would like to see us have. As such, we need to take practical steps to achieve it. Given the criticism levelled at the Bill, it might have been easier for the Minister to cut every...