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Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, withdrawal by authority of approval of access, transfer and progression procedures?

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In other words, they get it from their institutions.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is all right.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a very important amendment and I compliment the Government on including it. It is always very sad to see students who have paid their fees finding the college locked when they arrive on their first day. It is high time these institutions were regulated. It takes a long time to build a reputation and as a country that is putting itself forward as a destination for international...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This amendment has much merit. Why would members of the appeals board need to have knowledge of the functions of the authority as opposed to the education matters in respect of which appeals are made?

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would the amendment make a material difference to the Bill?

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I seek clarification. Which fees will the authority be seeking from the learner?

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is like a certification process.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Senator Ó Clochartaigh for sharing time with me. What has happened with Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh is a mystery. The Department in its five-year plan has given approval for what appears to be a new gaelscoil called Galway city west. Nobody knows the location, no patron has yet been nominated and there appears to be no evidence that the school is needed. However, Gaelscoil Mhic...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Where is the evidence for building a new Irish-medium school in this area when this school is seeking permanent accommodation? The children are at that school. The schools tell me that the same children are being enrolled in many different schools.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How does it know it will be an Irish-medium school?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This does not stand up to scrutiny. I am very concerned about what is happening.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (18 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. I listened to almost all of the debate and I feel a little bit inadequate in addressing the issue given the poignancy and the power of the contributions made. I will reiterate some of the points because they are so important. I compliment the Independent Senators on bringing forward this motion so quickly. I thought we had just debated this issue recently. I did...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A "Yes" vote in the forthcoming referendum is critical for the stability of the country and will allow us to get on with addressing the issues of most concern to the people. I spent the last two days at a meeting attended by representatives of all 27 European Union member states at which it was clear youth unemployment was the major concern throughout Europe, just as it was in Ireland. If...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is because of security checking. Europe cannot do it either.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Sin é. Go for it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am just saying Europe has difficulty with it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for taking the time to listen to us. She has a very important portfolio given that social welfare represents the bridge to work and also a bridge to education. At times of recession it is arguably the most important portfolio. The social welfare system is inherently essential in a democratic society. It is an essential tool in aiding those who are struggling most....

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I listened to Senator Leyden speak about all of the schemes Fianna Fáil introduced. Its doing so is part of the problem because new structural difficulties in society were created as was overdependency. I have been told in post offices that one of the 64 or 65 social welfare payments is for a washing machine and that everyone in the country is applying for it because it is a €300 payment...