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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Sean D. Barrett's comment that we need a reform agenda now that we are out of the bailout programme. That is the raison d'être of the Reform Alliance. I call for a debate on whether members of the permanent government, including the senior civil servants who work side by side with Ministers, should be on permanent contracts. I question this. It is a deep honour to...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the call by Deputy Mary Ann O'Brien on the need to examine the system that is being used in the United Kingdom to combat online child pornography. It is very urgent and serious and Senator Mary Ann O'Brien put it very well. I also support Senator O'Sullivan's call for a debate on abandoned horses. I am doing some work in this area. It is costing the State up to €3...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I raise a point of information?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A point of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Leader confirm we will have pre-legislative hearings on the Companies Bill?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister back to the House. This is an interesting process. There is something fundamentally wrong and unfair about the way the business of party allowances is being done at the moment for Members who find themselves, often for very honourable motives, outside the party Whip system in the middle of a term. We want the Minister to think this one through and come up with a way...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the proposal.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will respond.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Sure.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It makes no sense.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is correct that it is not his money. It is not the Labour Party's money nor the Fine Gael Party's money. It is certainly not the money of Senator Bradford or myself. It is the State's money and that is why we want to give it back to the State now that we have left our parliamentary parties. I do not think anything could be clearer. To clarify what I meant about, as the...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will agree to differ. There is an allowance-----

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is an allowance there. At mid-term or at a point in the Dáil or Seanad term, a re-think is needed when a Member is expelled or leaves a party. There should be some fair formula found to give the allowance to that person in his or her new status. As a mark of honour and good faith, we are saying that in our case - Senator Bradford and myself - we would like that allowance to be...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I ask the Minister to liaise with and support Galway city and county councils to ensure a base, as well as basic funding, is provided on the west side of Galway city for the Galway mountain rescue team. This, as the Minister may be aware, is a 999 emergency response service undertaken entirely by volunteers covering the Galway and Clare mountain ranges....

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for his response but I am disappointed to hear what he says. I appreciate that he acknowledges the important work done and that his Department has an administrative role but I would not have brought this matter before the Minister today if I did not think that it needed a push. I feel that the team is battling many forces which are not visible because of the nature of...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Department have that role through the Coast Guard?