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Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If that is the case, let us have the truth. There should be no cover-up. I take issue with the fact that Senator Bacik seems to have a difficulty with my trying to protect women's lives.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate it if the results of the investigation - which has been in train for eight months - could be finalised and made available in the autumn.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome. It is really nice to have everybody back in the House. It is one of the best attendances I have seen at any debate in this House. I do not particularly care who shot JR. I do not care whether Bobby Ewing forgot the previous year of his life before he stepped out of the shower but I do care about life and life-giving mechanisms. This is a good day...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome back my colleagues. As citizens, we enjoy rights, but we never really know how strong they are until they are tested. Like others, I am worried about the sacking of Ms O'Doherty. She was expressing her right to report on various stories. For some reason or other, however, she has been sacked. A debate on the freedom of the press and journalists' rights must be considered. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We all want our rights to be recognised. They had to be tested and people had to fight hard for them. What about the neglected rights of young people that I have seen this summer, however? I am referring to school-leavers with intellectual disabilities. Parents are on their knees watching these children regress. They are children with autism and challenging behaviour who may be granted...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have a question. When will the mental capacity Bill - to be renamed the assisted decision-making Bill - become law? Can we have a debate on that legislation? Until Ireland signs up to the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities I see nothing but neglected children and adults who are lost and forgotten. Families are giving up so much, including incomes. They are falling...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are very privileged in this House to be able to raise matters of national importance for the country and citizens. This morning I beg the indulgence of the House to listen to a case that is extremely urgent for a family in Galway. I ask the Deputy Leader to make the following request to the Minister for Health. The story concerns a young father of three children who is 40 years of age....

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that, but he must travel on 1 October and there is no time for an Adjournment motion. His family and 30 friends have borrowed €1,000 each to help fund the treatment, but we are under pressure to raise enough money next week to enable the family to travel. My request to the Deputy Leader which I ask her to put to the Minister for Health is that the treatment abroad scheme...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I had planned to raise the important issue of welfare and work this morning, but I will postpone that until tomorrow morning because I need to comment on what I saw outside the gates of Leinster House as I was coming in. I saw the former Minister, Alan Dukes, and the former Minister of State, Liz McManus, carrying a poster that said "End this failure" in reference to the Seanad. I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who bankrupted this country? It was Anglo Irish Bank. Over 1,000 of our young people are leaving our shores every week. We are all suffering cuts because of the negligence in Anglo Irish Bank. If I was to say "End this failure", I would be referring to Anglo Irish Bank rather than the Seanad. We need to be careful in what we say. I do not believe in dirty campaigning, but I am afraid...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. Are they are also calling themselves failed politicians? I doubt it. I support my esteemed colleague, Senator Quinn. Next week, I hope the people will have seen through the dirty campaign and will have read the subtext for a "No" vote to retain and reform the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to allow us to move No. 44, motion 8 on the Order Paper. It is a motion Senator Bradford and I have tabled which calls for a cross-party, all-grouping agreement on a reform package to be put before this House on which I know we will agree.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The motion calls for the report of such proposals to be put before the House no later than 20 February 2014. We have exciting plans for reform.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate Senator Quinn on bringing forward the Bill. It is absurd that upward-only rents cannot be contested in a recession and in the interest of the public good, as many Senators have said. It is worth testing in the interest of the public good. We have 1.8 million people at work and half of them, or 900,000, work in the SME sector. If we want to boost the economy, this is the one...

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us hear from her. We test many things through constitutional referenda and this one matters, because this is about jobs. If every one of our SMEs could hire one more person, we would solve our employment problem. For me it is a no-brainer and I ask the Minister to revisit the matter urgently.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Treatment Abroad Scheme (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Fáilte tAire, mo chara dílis. I ask the Minister for Health to redirect the €40,000 funding approved under the treatment abroad scheme for a Galway father with colon and liver cancer towards better life-saving treatment in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, which has the best record for cure and life-saving outcomes in this area. I will give the Minister...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Treatment Abroad Scheme (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am disappointed by the Minister of State's response. The patient and his family are listening to the debate and I know that they, too, will be extremely disappointed. They are aware of the decision for treatment in France, but that decision is not acceptable. Why, in the interests of patient health and life, would we not want to give the father of a young family the best chance at life?...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Treatment Abroad Scheme (2 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the problem.