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Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I, too, would like to be associated with the words of goodwill and good wishes for the Minister, Deputy Séamus Brennan. I found him to be very courteous. He is a Galway man and I would like his contribution to be noted. I call on the Leader to facilitate a cross-departmental debate in this House on the social, personal and health issues affecting young people in this country. Very...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would the Leader love to be Minister?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to facilitate a cross-departmental debate. That would mean bringing to the House the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary Hanafin, the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Pat Carey, and, again, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. Let us examine the question of taking responsibility. As Senator Fitzgerald said,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear. Our questions were dismissed.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have quite a job on our hands to get the Lisbon reform treaty through the forthcoming referendum. If the Lisbon treaty fails, it will be due to the Government's inaction. Last Friday, along with five others, I carried out a survey on the streets of Galway with a sample of 115 people. Of those surveyed, 91% believed the Government had not adequately explained the Lisbon treaty, 35% will...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are overstretched.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is also the case in Galway.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's party is in Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With all his vision.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Self-congratulation.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Ba mhaith liom cur leis an bhfáilte a bhronnadh ar Des Bishop, a bhí linn ar maidin. As a former educator, I am ashamed to say I have realised for some time that we are not teaching Irish in the right way. Des Bishop took a great deal of value from the year he spent in the Gaeltacht. By the time most children sit the leaving certificate, they will have spent 14 years learning Irish. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Including all the new female Senators here.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They have lost it.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is not new.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I call for an interdepartmental debate on the social, personal and health formation of our young people. This is the third time I have made the request. I say this as a result of the "Prime Time Investigates" programme on cyber bullying. I have raised the issue of bullying on numerous occasions. This is the second major study in this country. The Programme for International Student...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I second Senator Frances Fitzgerald's amendment to the Order of Business. I support Senator Mullen's call for a debate on the issue of missing children. Where is our outrage as a nation? If I were living in another humane and civilised country and my child went missing I would want the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Government to take the matter seriously. I have...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Perhaps the Leader will ensure we get a response to this issue in terms of what the Government is doing about it.