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- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not from Shannon.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Tell us how, Minister.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Give us a chance.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should get his facts right.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We do not know that. We do not know if they would ever intervene if they had to. That is the problem.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Support it to go where? If it does not go where we need it, how can we support it?
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Now the Senator has it.
- Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, for attending the debate. I am a Senator from Galway West and I represent the west's perspective in the national context. My speech is much longer than the time available to me. The Minister for Transport and the Marine, Deputy Dempsey, addressed the House at the start of the debate. Despite what he said about what has been done by the...
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister, whom I have met on a number of previous occasions in various educational contexts. As the Fine Gael spokesperson on education and science in the Seanad, I welcome the Labour Party motion that no child should be denied access to education on the grounds of religion or race. This follows from the position articulated by my colleague, Deputy Brian Hayes, in the Dáil...
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: For the overall good of society, we need to embrace diversity in our publicly funded State-run schools. The time has come for a national debate to address important questions such as whether the current model of denominational education is suitable to our needs.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am summing up. I was sure I had timed myself accurately. I apologise but I am somewhat nervous, so I appreciate the Acting Chairman's intervention.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Do we envisage an integrated education system in which all races and religions are welcome or are they only welcome when signed up to denominational education? That is dangerous because the issue will then become one of access and enrolment policies will exclude rather than include children.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If the two steps of forward planning and a national database are taken, we will have fewer problems with selectivity and the exclusion of children. That is the way to build a fairer society in Ireland.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A new national convention would be open to the public.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hands are tied by the planning Acts.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They can be empowered through legislation.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a fair point.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He did not respond.
- Seanad: Access to Education: Motion (10 Oct 2007)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.