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Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are trying to get our sovereignty back.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Of course we want to get the best possible deal on promissory notes. Please be assured that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, is a man of masterful timing and knows when to strike.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Please be 100% assured because it is his job.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us not pretend to the public that something is possible when it is not. The former Minister, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, is misleading people and last night's television debate was passé and completely confusing.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a positive note, today is World Book Day and there are many children in the Gallery. It is so important that we continue to promote the reading of books and the household charge will go towards funding-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am talking about public libraries.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us keep literacy on the agenda.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us get back to first principles. Fianna Fáil is responsible for our current difficulties.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's party is going to vote "Yes" in any event.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that not a bit rich?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was going to say good morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to address an issue to the Minister for Justice and Equality on the fairness and proportionality of sentences handed down in recent days. The courage of Lorraine Mulvey, the 41 year old woman who has spoken out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, has been mentioned. She was sexually abused and raped over a 12 year period. For that crime a sentence of six years...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The public is going mad, and rightly so. Questions have been raised that must be put to the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Are we saying these crimes are equal?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Are the sentences handed down in proportion to the crimes committed?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. These matters have been decided.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are in the public domain.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish with one sentence. I am asking for the Minister for Justice and Equality to be brought to the House to comment-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----on whether there is fairness in the judgments.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the 14 years of complacency?