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Seanad: Adjournment Matter: Road Improvement Schemes (17 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State's response completely misses the point. Galway County Council is active. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is the competent authority, the council is the consulting authority, with the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Will the Government put a contingency plan in place to resolve a judgment of the European Court of Justice regarding the impact of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matter: Road Improvement Schemes (17 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is how it has been perceived.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask for three debates to be arranged in the early new year, preferably in January. The first debate I seek is on the Legal Services Bill. I am disappointed to learn that the Fine Gael Party is rowing back on its position on this Bill to keep the Labour Party happy. I also seek a debate on the proposal to reduce the age of consent from 17 years to 16 years and the potential effects any...

Seanad: Protection of the Public Interest from Tobacco Lobbying Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am grateful to Senator Ó Murchú for giving me some of his time. The Minister is welcome and I am delighted to hear of his ambition to make Ireland tobacco-free by 2025. It is laudable, but unrealistic unless we do much more. For example, Ireland does not even have a university campus that is smoke free. As the Minister will recall, I wrote to him during Ireland's European...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Languages Programme (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Nílim chun mo ráiteas ar an díospóireacht seo a chur os comhair an Tí i nGaeilge. Baineann an díospóireacht leis an tSín.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Languages Programme (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Bhuel, tá cúpla focal agam i Sínis - huān yíng - welcome. My question is on the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans for the provision of suitably qualified teachers to implement a national roll-out of Chinese language and culture, Mandarin, as a short course from September 2014. I am delighted to have the Minister in the House but I...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Languages Programme (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: While the Minister of State's answer is helpful, it is unbelievably disappointing. It is a joke that there will be no national roll-out of the most anticipated course in the reformed junior cycle. I know it is not compulsory. I appreciate that there will be information technology and digital elements. Who will teach the children? The Minister has no plan. He is relying on voluntary...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Languages Programme (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It did not say that in the Minister of State's response.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Languages Programme (18 Dec 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Chairman for chairing this marathon session and the delegates for their thoroughness in answering the questions posed. Does Mr. Tierney accept how bad it looks in putting all of this very useful information that we are getting today into the public domain after the Bill has passed? In his presentation he said the approach taken by Irish Water was in line with a modern, new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is for the installation of meters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: At a cost of €539 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The information I have is that installing drive-by meters is obsolete.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to clarify the information I have available. Drive-by meters are labour and vehicle intensive because one must drive by within 100 m to pick up levels of usage for billing, whereas smart meters are connected to a communications system which can connect directly with the utility. Therefore, there is no need to drive around in vehicles, which is a cost and which involves the emission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How costly would it have been?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am surprised, given the trend in Europe and the rest of the world to move to smart metering. Who made the decision to stay with drive-by meters which, as I stated, are labour and vehicle intensive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Driving around the country, up and down every avenue; this is incredible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What was the cost for smart metering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Mr. O'Donoghue do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not believe the issue of secondments was addressed.