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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It cannot be offset.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That lack of understanding is probably why there are so many ineligible. There are 75,000 children sitting the leaving certificate this month. They will all chance applying but 30,000 are ineligible. There should be some type of information board with more clarity to help SUSI reduce some of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I asked whether SUSI communicated directly with students to ensure that the students were not being disadvantaged. We definitely got some commitments in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is Mr. Conroy aware of any colleges that prevented students from accessing libraries and from getting their exam results?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The threat was withdrawn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Like the express passports.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Because the Fianna Fáil budget-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I rise to condemn the immoral move by the banks to remove tracker mortgages from homeowners in difficulty. One of the conditions of the mortgage arrears resolution process, MARP, is that a person's tracker mortgage cannot be touched. I would like to know from the Minister for Finance what such homeowners will get in return. What is next? How safe are other people's tracker mortgages if...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will suggest how it can be done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. We need a real debate on this issue. A huge amount of money is being spent on special educational needs in this country. This is critical to ensure a level playing field for children. We must find a new way of managing resources to ensure all children are treated fairly. This may require expert additional training for our resource and classroom teachers and, in particular, special...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Getting at the truth is more important.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is urgent and important that we have a debate on the new mortgage code of conduct before the summer recess. Anything that threatens people's homes must be fully scrutinised and debated in this House. That is our job. The Irish people have lost enough. To say that the revelations in the Anglo Irish Bank tapes have angered the public is an understatement. We must give people a hand...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the witness. There has been much debate about democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU. What initiative by the EU has best increased democratic legitimacy and accountability, and how is that measured in terms of effectiveness. A second question relates to the three initiatives by the European Parliament, and the witness spoke about the election of MEPs and new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On that point, does the witness consider there are enough reasoned opinions coming from national parliaments to assist the depth of scrutiny that surrounds subsidiarity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How does Ireland fair vis-à-vis the other European countries with regard to reasoned opinions in terms of testing the subsidiarity principle? Where do we feature in terms of the number of reasoned opinions Ireland submits versus other parliaments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Were we sending more reasoned opinions when we had a centralised European scrutiny committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I know, but the witness has no way of checking the quality of our scrutiny. At least when there is a reasoned opinion, it is a quantitative check that we have done something.