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- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabhaim buÃochas leis an Seanadóir d'Arcy as a chuid ama a roinnt liom. I welcome the Minister to the House. I understand life has changed significantly in schools since the mid-1990s, so in many ways the report is a little behind the action in terms of patronage. Schools have had to accommodate children from multiple faiths and countries for at least 15 years now. In preparation for...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The big concern of those to whom I spoke is that those who shout loudest will get what they want and that the views of the silent majority, who are happy with current patronage, will be ignored. I want the Minister to discuss the process we will go through, especially with the 50 communities around the country that have been identified as sites where the Catholic Church will hand over...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Excuse me. The parish is the unit of belonging throughout the country. If these schools are amalgamated against their wishes out of necessity, is there a danger they will have a lesser identity? They will no longer have their unique ethos. They will be centralist schools without glue. This is a debate and I put the issues because I want to hear the Minister's response on them. I want to...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Look how well the Senator turned out.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With the permission of all the parents in that area.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It will not work otherwise.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And vice versa.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It happens already.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will they have any choice if they choose not to?
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I acknowledge that it appears a thoughtful process is being planned around patronage. Will the Minister put a similar process in place for small rural schools to help them to examine their viability into the future? The Minister gave the number of people in the recent census who registered as having no religion but that does not mean they are unhappy with the Catholic ethos in the schools in...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I checked around the country and it was not an issue.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They welcome them.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is long gone.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Students opt out all the time.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that primary education?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I reject the comments broadcast across the media that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, was scaremongering by saying that budget 2013 will be tougher unless we get a "Yes" vote.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister was correct. Let us face it. We must start thinking with business heads.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We rely on investor confidence in this country. We are a small island on the west coast of Europe, we are an open economy and we rely on investment here. Voting "Yes" will provide stability and we will know that we can pay our bills in the future.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am on my feet.