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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is correct.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That long ago?

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. This is a useful debate because we are getting into the quality issues - the substantive issue of what education is about. We must ask what is the purpose of education. When I ask myself that question, the answer for me is to release in the child and student a hint of his or her own potential - just a hint. This is the spark where he or she says, "This is who I am...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister might tell me a little more about that because I am not fully sure about it. As with Senator Moran, I am concerned about clientelism. It exists in politics and, therefore, we cannot say it will be absent in education. I am also concerned about poor teaching but I hope the Teaching Council will get rid of that. Let me make one remark in support of parents. The Minister should...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is going to start at university level.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Why was that?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Civil Registration (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome and I greatly admire him, as he knows, but he is the wrong Minister for this topic. I wanted to ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the progress and the next steps to amending the Civil Registration Act to enable the registration of deaths of Irish people who die abroad. I have raised the topic with the Minister and, since then, she asked...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Civil Registration (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It is great to hear that legislation will be introduced in 2013. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the persistence of Mrs Yvonne O'Reilly, her husband and children, from Galway in pursuing this matter. Mrs. O'Reilly whose first born child, a son, died abroad is a champion for many others in terms of seeking to have her son's death...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that 300,000 people on the schemes?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Was this 100,000 new people?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the computer system or a lack of willingness to tackle the issue?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister agree with the principle that there should be a cap on the amount of welfare one family receives?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would strongly urge the Minister to consider that.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that 300,000 people on the schemes?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Was this 100,000 new people?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the computer system or a lack of willingness to tackle the issue?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister agree with the principle that there should be a cap on the amount of welfare one family receives?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would strongly urge the Minister to consider that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Mr. MacGabhann explain the six years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not correct.