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Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This vulture will not catch the Minister.

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome to the House. I thank her for bringing the report before us as we have been awaiting it for some time. The debate about child benefit is an important one. For a long time the payment has gone specifically to the mother for the benefit of children. The question we face is if we should continue with it as it is, where everyone gets the same amount, or should we...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am mentioning it now. We must learn from that and do it correctly. By leaving child benefit as a stand-alone office in Letterkenny, is this transactional service not a waste of time that could be moved through the taxation system? I am not saying these people in Letterkenny should not have jobs or be in the system, but they would be better deployed in places like MABS and community...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is called "Equality".

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The party has some good ideas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for missing some of the presentation. I was in the Seanad contributing to the debate on child benefit. My contact with this topic is Connemara. While I live east of Galway, where there is a very different type of farming from the area to the west, I come in contact with this issue very often. My assessment is that many rules on destocking and care for the environment have...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How many political appointments did Fianna Fáil make?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand Senator MacSharry's concern for people with disabilities in the context of the mobility allowance and the motorised grant. However, I reassure him that the money will be ring-fenced. We had a clear breach of the Equal Status Act here and that is why the Government had to act. There are times when we must heed the Ombudsman and this is one of them. It is very important for...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am delighted to have her hear to listen to this case, about which she has heard from me in the corridors of this House, on the telephone and in letters. I ask Deputy O'Sullivan, as Minister of State with special responsibility for housing in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, to specify where responsibility lies...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Has the council given that commitment to the Minister of State?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a matter of definition.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for being here and listening. I would invite her to look at my hole, as would the residents, because it has to be seen to be believed. The Senator behind me would agree about this hole. The residents had a large hole party.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is not just about compliance, they want it filled in. There are anomalies here. This was considered a finished estate for the household charge but it is clearly unfinished.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That was wrong. The Minister of State made the point that it is more inactive rather than abandoned but I would dispute that. I take the point that if it is classified as derelict site by the council, we can consider it abandoned. This developer said to me he would fill the hole in when we fix the economy, meaning he will never do it. Is it right that up to 1,000 people and 500 children...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is good news.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I used to live there.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Last Thursday, we had an excellent public consultation session here on social enterprise. I compliment the Seanad on bringing a raft of new people to the Chamber - One Foundation, Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and Ashoka Ireland. They are change makers by nature. It is phenomenal that 28 Senators were present for the entire three-hour session. The organisations suggested wonderful...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I compliment the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, on brokering a cap on bankers' bonuses across Ireland and the rest of the EU. Let us give him a big bualadh bos. It is time to do so.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, but we led on the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the High Court judgment today under which the genetic parents of twins born to a surrogate mother were deemed to be the legal parents and the genetic mother was entitled to have her name on the birth certificate. I think this was the right judgment in this case, but the whole issue is not straightforward. What if it had been a donor? Who then would be deemed the legal mother? It...