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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Well spotted.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be helpful for the Deputy Leader to ask the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, to come to the House to give a statement on the schools building fund list announced on Monday. People in many schools are upset, angry and frustrated. They do not know why they were not granted funding when there was an expectation that they would, and they do not know why others were...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How would one deal with that?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's party did nothing when it was on this side of the House.

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That has nothing to do with the European Union.

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is great that so much time is being given to this debate today. I will make a few points in favour of why I believe we need to vote "Yes" for the stability pact. I also want to examine the points that will come up in the "No" campaign, and how they do not really stand up. My views are framed against the backdrop of Commissioner Olli Rehn's comments yesterday, the timing of which was not...

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Am I finished?

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to make one other point. The treaty's fiscal discipline is designed to prevent another crisis like the current one. Once we reach the target deficit levels of the treaty, we will no longer be able to build up an unsustainable deficit like the current one. Would we not have wished for someone to put a brake on us in 2005 and 2006? It was tried with the Bacon report in 2001 but...

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish on this point. Along came the Government and it heated up the market again with more tax breaks. There needs to be discipline when we cannot rely on a government to impose discipline and to regulate. Unity among eurozone countries is required now to save the euro. We have to play our best hand but we must also contribute to the European economy.

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence.

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There are reasons, past and current.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is timely to have a serious debate on the mortgage crisis in this House, especially in light of Patrick Honohan's words in the University of Limerick, where he appears to favour repossessions, if they must take place, taking place for over-indebted buy-to-let borrowers who can no longer service their debts. Have we come to a moment in time where we must now ask what is our priority? My...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are having a local event in Connamera. It has been asked in this House before if it is essential for a Minister to be in the House to answer a Private Members' motion.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have heard in previous debates that it was not necessary so I am asking that question.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I found the weekend's proposal by the Friends of the Elderly on replacing transition year with a year of community service was interesting and thought provoking. Will the Leader arrange for a debate?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I speak with some recent experience, as my son just completed transition year in our local school, Calasanctius College in Oranmore. While he had a good year, I see great merit in continued community service. There is no reason transition year cannot become a community service year under the tutelage of transition year co-ordinators and with rewards of points. In Singapore second level...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Nobody is being patronising.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to prioritise a debate on this proposal. Friends of the Elderly has raised an important point. Let us do something with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is very rowdy today.