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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not wish to be the proposer but would make the suggestion that it would be wise, in the interests of education, our children and of teachers who wish to move this issue on, to re-engage. The blockages can be addressed and a great deal of new information has been put on the record today that gives hope.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Would the Chairman be open to that suggestion? Would the Minister be open to it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what I am saying and in that context, it might be wise of this committee to make a proposal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I also support the call for a debate on the tax system because taxes are too high and Senator Colm Burke's very wise proposal of a seven-day re-allocation period for vacant houses. There are 78 boarded-up houses in Galway city and thousands on the waiting list. My main reason for standing up today is to raise a question about the provision of easy mortgages for first-time buyers on the back...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There is no indication as to when he is coming.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The scheme was only announced in the past few days.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are at a moment when we need to reflect on the lessons learned and the message sent by the recent local and European elections. Can we have a debate on the EU structure? We have seen how popular it is to oppose European Union domination. There is a very important distinction to be made between being anti-EU and EU domination. Senator Colm Burke has proposed on several occasions that...
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very grateful to the Senator. This issue is so important that the time allocated should be extended.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that possible?
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister has heard my request also, and so has the Acting Chairman. This issue has touched many people.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Only having 45 minutes to debate an issue as deeply moving as this is inappropriate in Seanad Éireann.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Many of us have been deeply shocked by this issue. Everybody across the Houses has expressed shock. My entire family was born in the Grove Hospital in Tuam which was run by the Bon Secours nuns. I have wondered since this story broke whether we were born alongside some of these children who were condemned to the mother and baby homes. Subsequently, I went to boarding school in Tuam and I...
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is appalling for such an important issue in our social history and living history-----
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the suggestion.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is very important that we think carefully about the terms of reference. I also welcome and thank the Minister for the commission of investigation.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That would be appreciated.