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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ferry Services Provision (4 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know that.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ferry Services Provision (4 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Alcohol abuse and its normalisation by young people appears to be out of hand. The former Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, was making great progress in dealing with this issue. I do not believe that the same progress is being made under the current Minister but it needs to be. Like other speakers I am particularly concerned about the craze around Necknominations. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is important that we have a full independent inquiry into the alleged bugging of the office of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. I was out and about in Galway yesterday and there is much public concern. While the appropriate word might not be “dodgy”, there is certainly a lot of doubt. Questions are being asked about what type of country we are living in...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We must ensure the review of GSOC, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, is thorough for the confidence of the nation, not just a window-dressing exercise to play down the seriousness of what is at stake. When we see the terms of reference, we will know how serious it is being taken. When will we know the terms of reference? I put down an Adjournment matter on the 13,000 Irish...

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Seanadóir Ó Domhnaill and the Acting Chairman. I also welcome the Minister to the House. We know that the key to a nation's future is the quality of its education and key to that is the quality of its teachers. I very much welcome this dimension within the new Teaching Council Act and the fact that 87,000 teachers have now registered is critical. I did speak to Thomas...

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The matter is critical. I know about the culture, having gone into schools. I have seen individual teachers being enthusiastic yet when I saw them in a classroom they had been flattened. The culture in a school is very powerful.

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I shall make a final point or question.

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was saddened to discover, when I tabled an Adjournment matter before Christmas, that there was no roll-out plan to teach Chinese next September. I made the discovery when I listened to the response given by the Minister that day. I refer to the teaching of Chinese in terms of the reform of the junior certificate examination and the new programmes. We must have teachers. The Minister...

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am thanking her.

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I ask her seriously to consider putting the brakes on and offering an independent review of the marking scheme that is taking beds away from Ballinasloe. I have looked at the facts. The unit for Galway is not due to be in place until March 2015. I serve Galway city. University College Hospital Galway is overcrowded. It is our centre of excellence for...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am putting this on the record. I want to see University College Hospital Galway maintained as a centre of excellence. I do not want to see people under so much pressure all for the swipe of a pen. Meanwhile, Ballinasloe is almost written off the map. Senators such as Senator Michael Mullins and others have tried for many years to put Ballinasloe on the map. Now we learn there is an...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what this motion is about.

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I want to clarify a point for the Minister. I am not in any way denigrating the good service offered by Galway University Hospital. The problem is the time is not right and it is unfair to Ballinasloe and Galway. It should not be done until the unit is built.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.