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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That was his job.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He has not been idle.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need some balance here.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to mention something positive that perhaps is not known. This year Ashoka's Change Nation came to Ireland. It involved 50 innovators bringing solutions we need to help our country. One of them is Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a consultant in New Mexico. He found the greatest problem facing his people was waiting lists, such as we have here. People were waiting up to eight months to see him...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Cathaoirleach knows I have not spoken this week and I am trying to say everything I want to raise.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader ask the Minister to attend the House early in the autumn because we will be facing into a budget and people will be worried about certainty as they approach a new year with regard to their disposable income and what they can rely on receiving if they are out of work? The Minister must address the issue of sick pay. I completely disagree with her that the employer should pay.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We rely on employers to produce growth in the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The poor baby.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree completely.

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I speak on behalf of Senator Michael D'Arcy in his absence. Having listened to survivors and read their e-mails and other correspondence, I ask the Minister if there is room for those who did not avail of the redress scheme on time to apply now. They also have suffered pain. There are many reasons for their failure to apply. One reason could be a lack of confidence, empowerment, knowledge...

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister referred to 15,000 potential beneficiaries. Will he comment on whether the money from the fund will be apportioned equally among these people? Senator Norris stated that 15,000 is a huge figure and Senator Power indicated that the number of those considered ineligible is a small, but significant, proportion of this. The past 20 years have been marked by those who have been...

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No, I am not.

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Minister indicate how we might avoid a situation where there could be a need to establish another redress board 20 years from now as a result of the fact that sufficient Garda vetting is not being carried out?

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I add my words of thanks to the Minister. This is a job well done to have got the Bill through before the summer recess. It is useful that the Minister showed such empathy for the plight of and openness towards those victims for whom not everything has been solved at this point. I add a word of thanks on behalf of Senator Jim D'Arcy who took the Bill yesterday and wish the Minister a...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome all of my colleagues back to the House and also welcome the beginning of a session during which we can make a major difference to many people's lives in this country. I am referring to the forthcoming referendum on children's rights. Right now there are 1,500 children who have been in care for more than five years. Children of married parents who are in care for various reasons,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Shane McEntee, to the House. The matter I wish to raise concerns the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to review the band rating for the proposed new accommodation for Scoil Mhuire primary school, Clarinbridge, County Galway, consistent with prior agreement given in 2007. Five of the local primary schools were classified at the time as...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have been doing that for five years. It is terrible that one cannot get the truth.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know the school will be disappointed with the answer. I must make one clarification; we are not talking about an extension but a totally new school building. The core question remains as to why neighbouring schools were advanced to the band rating 1.1 when the rate of growth in some of them was not as big as that in Clarinbridge national school, yet it has been left behind. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We can move on to them later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It happens all of the time and the scheme is not working.