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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can anybody here tell us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be good if it could be supplied to us because we cannot know if the Department is working successfully. If the majority of cases end up being appealled, we will know there is a problem at first stage. Some 50% of appeals are successful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Gleeson gave a lot of information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I asked what would improve matters overall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Ms Gleeson clarify that? Has she asked the Department for a more timely response and how is it reacting? What are the indications that there will be a more timely response? She is in the same Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is my first time attending this committee and I deliberately came because of Mr. Trethowan's presence. I had an experience last year with a company that exhausted itself trying to get a loan from the bank. I strongly recommended that it go to the Credit Review Office but it would not because it was so exhausted. This company had an offer of orders worth €7 million. It needed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are banks using those templates now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that allowed within the Credit Review Office's current remit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Credit Review Office pursuing different lending, not just from a bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a key point. That means that the Credit Review Office is exactly what SMEs need because all they want is access to the credit, the money. If the Credit Review Office is accessing all potential lenders not just the bank that refused them in the first instance, it is a total asset to the business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree. Does the Credit Review Office work with Ulster Bank as well and what figures does it have for overturning its original decisions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish Mr. Trethowan the best of luck and continued success. Thank you, Chairman.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Chairman for hosting this session. I welcome the representatives from One Foundation, Ashoka Ireland and Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. Last spring I was present at Farmleigh and met representatives from Ashoka Ireland and the Change Nation process. I was blown away by what they were setting out to do in Ireland and by the potential this has in the context of bringing to this...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand that. However, Ms Mortell from One Foundation has acknowledged-----
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was about to ask a question and I again thank the Chairman for hosting this event. I am conscious that One Foundation will be closing its doors at the end of the year. That is a matter of concern. Will there be time for those with projects that would meet its criteria to present to One Foundation? I refer, in particular, to projects which involve young people and creativity and which...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the three witnesses for attending and for being so inspirational. I agree with Mr. O'Hara about the whole curriculum development process. We need to consider what we need for our young people for the future besides just piling stuff on top of what is already there. I was very impressed with what he had to say about JUMP math. I presume the Canadian teacher trainers will come to...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it just a module in current courses?
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Mr. Coughlan and Ms Gallagher for their presentations. I agree with Mr. Coughlan that entrepreneurs get this because social entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs with social goals. However, the enterprise boards do not get it. I have approached them in regard to a social enterprise. They continue to see enterprise as they always did. Would Mr. Coughlan be willing to brief them? So...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.