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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Their mess is still with us.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have been rather stunned to read in The Irish Times of the cases of children and young people who died in State care of non-natural causes between 2000 and 2010. A 12 year old girl died in 2008, a 15 year old girl died in 2000, a 16 year old boy died in 2003, a baby girl died in 2008, a 17 month old boy died in 2003, an 18 year old died in 2002 and a 17 year old male died in 2009. These...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is welcome. This is one of the most positive moves we have had for a good while in terms of helping SMEs. The Bill will help small businesses across the country to access credit and create jobs. Let us face it, the pillar banks have let down SMEs. Despite the fact they have been capitalised with that purpose in mind, we know there is not enough evidence of them doing it....

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am referring to a colleague in the House.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. I would like to see Sinn Féin being positive when it comes to trying to invest in the economy and SMEs. I am somewhat outraged because, truly, we need to look at every measure that will help our SMEs continue, as Senator Harte said, to be the lifeblood of our economy. I recently did an interview on this Bill in Galway and it was met with a lot of positivity. There are...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a good thing we do not need money for that.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They make their own cheese, etc.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is correct.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will a business be able to get loans from both?

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He knows on what side his bread is buttered.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the banks come to the Seanad Chamber or the AV room?

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Did Senator Cullinane leave to read the children's book?

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are all elected Ministers.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is welcome. He gives much of his time in this House, which we appreciate. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the ESM, and during the course of the treaty referendum campaign it was the key selling point of the treaty, even for me. It is another piece of the puzzle in stabilising our currency and the Irish and eurozone economies in order that we can get on...

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that but how is this provision healthy? There is no point in us looking back in ten years and asking how we let that pass us by. The Minister of State might comment on it. Senator D'Arcy touched on the next issue. Will the ESM will get a banking licence and will it have an independent regulator? These are the questions for here and now. Others have referred to the bigger...

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is better to charge interest than have a bad debt.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The next great idea.

Seanad: European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State, Deputy Costello, is very welcome. It is nice to see him in the House. I especially welcome him as a former Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs. It is interesting that we are debating the European Communities (Amendment) Bill. We in this House live through history. We have seen a lot happen in a few years. Since I came to the House we...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I respectfully disagree with Senator Bacik that there is no evidence to support the contention that those who have had an abortion do not experience emotional and mental effects in the long term. Certainly abortion may appear like a solution in the short term. This depends on who one speaks to and the group that carried out the research. Not everyone holds the view that it has no effects....

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This Bill is significant in the history of the language, our State and country. The purpose of the Bill is to save the language. I hope there is agreement across the House on that. It is not just to save údarás elections. If údarás elections were to save the language, then clearly they have failed because the number of Irish speakers in the...