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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sorry. I have just one more question. What do the delegations think of the idea of a cluster of schools providing speech and language therapy, a key need of most children with learning difficulties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What if it is a physical diagnostic label?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: At undergraduate level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question on the joint role of care and education for the teaching assistant has not been responded to by anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to put a supplementary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted that the NCSE emphasises the central role of the teacher, particularly at second level. It is impossible to get through to some second level subject teachers who do not understand learning difficulties. Common comments from these teachers would be that the child is distracting others from the learning process, unaware that the child might suffer from ADD, specific learning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It must be mandatory, because these children are lost. At primary school the teacher gets to know these children, but when these pupils have seven, eight or nine teachers in a day, school can be a living hell for them, even if three or four teachers are brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the witnesses and am sorry for having missed the presentations. I am grateful that the committee has convened this meeting to consider the humanitarian impact of the crisis. I have a specific question that has been asked of me by families, and I am particularly concerned about the impact of the crisis on children. My understanding now is that there are more than 1 million...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. He is the right man in the right place at the right time. I spoke to the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on this issue recently and he told me I certainly would get a decent response. This request is somewhat unusual and is to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. Is the Minister of State saying that he will look on the matter favourably? Will there be a whole of Government response? I have interpreted his comments as being positive. Is he saying that my proposal is a good idea?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that whole families?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If one was to pursue it, would it be with the Department Justice and Equality?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am just looking for advice.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Syrian Conflict (16 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State and the Cathaoirleach.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am concerned about the escalating action by teachers, who are members of the ASTI, in secondary schools. The most valuable resource any child has at school is teacher contact time. As those teachers voted against the Haddington Road agreement, which they had a right to do, they will now have parent-teacher meetings and perhaps CAO information sessions during school hours. This will rob...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The legacy lives on.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Níl sé sin fíor.

Seanad: Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister and thank him for introducing the Gas Regulation Bill in this House. It is encouraging that the Bill proposes to sell Bord Gáis Éireann's supply business while retaining the network. That is a wise move by the Government and shows we learned much from the experience with Aer Lingus of the strategic ownership of the terminal versus selling the business. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We must face up to the fact that universal State provision of any benefit is a luxury. While it might be the ideal, in these times it is certainly a luxury. I listened to the debate on health service provision and free GP care for children under five years of age. We saw the folly of providing it for everyone over 70 years of age. Money should follow need, not the patient. If a child...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach is very welcome. I have two brief points. On 26 September, I and Senators Bradford and Norris tabled a motion on the Order Paper that in the event of a rejection of the proposed abolition of Seanad Éireann, a committee that was representative of all parties and groups would be established to prepare and bring forward proposals for political and electoral reform. It was...