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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a key point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The delegation is very welcome. Mr. Beuster is my neighbour as well so it is not the first time we have been in this setting. I thank the committee for the opportunity to be here and have this exchange. I will add a few words to what Deputy Durkan said about local government and then put one or two questions to the person in charge of youth affairs and the agricultural speakers. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have one more question for the agriculture people, if the Vice Chairman is agreeable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are in the midst of the CAP negotiations. Do the witnesses favour reforms in production or in land ownership? We would like to see more coupling whereby productive farmers are rewarded. What are the witnesses' preferences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is similar to us.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am struck by a report in today's Irish Independent detailing an industry finding that information technology graduates emerging from our third level institutions are not entirely fit for purpose. Employers found that their education was too theory based, did not include sufficient practical experience and that some of the computer languages they were learning were out of date. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am making a point and then finishing with a question. Basically, it is in a period of renewal. I believe it is right that we allow the Catholic Church to express its view and facilitate that expression on the issue of life, which is sacrosanct, and its failings on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is more than fitting at this point.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like everyone else I was stunned to hear of the child abuse prevalent in some child care facilities in the country and it is not acceptable at all. I have been a mother who entrusted her children to child care facilities. It is obviously not the case everywhere. In condemning the abusive practices that "Prime Time Investigates" revealed we should be careful not to condemn all facilities....

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Developed.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Well done.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Margareta Wahlström (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Wahlström is very welcome to the House. I was attracted to the topic of her speech. Last summer I volunteered in Rwanda and, looking at Ms Wahlström's 30-year career, I see she was in situ during the genocide there. What struck me is that, while it is a small country the size of Munster, it has 11 million people and is very much at risk of drought. It is already a country...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House, and I welcome the report. It is a significant document, supporting students with special educational needs in schools. I commend Senator Mullen on tabling the motion because it has given us time to reflect on its content. I note Sydney Blain is now chair of the NCSE.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He spoke about the broad consultation used to compile the report in 2012. Every adult possible was consulted but children and students were left out, which was a mistake. I did research a number of years ago on children with dyslexia whom I had taught a number of years earlier. When one is teaching in the classroom one knows it is very important to vary instruction in order that one does...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It still was not implemented then.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is an outcome.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Feargal Quinn's call for a debate on third level education before the summer. I flagged this issue with the Leader two days ago. The proposed reorganisation of third level education is big news, involving the creation of three new technological universities. I bow to all those who have worked very hard in making the case for Waterford Institute of Technology. They are...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the Leader on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I add my words of welcome to Castlerea national school. They are very welcome. The Minister is also very welcome. We are adopting the right approach to welcome Croatia immediately into the labour market. I am a member of the Joint Committee on European Affairs and I am quite friendly with the Croatian ambassador to Ireland, Jasna Ognjanovac. She is a very forward-looking woman and she...