Results 4,601-4,620 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Let it happen.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, "That No. 13 on the Order Paper be taken before No. 1." I also wish to state I am shocked by the disgraceful tampering on the part of the Government to try to fix this banking inquiry. Members should consider what they are trying to achieve in this regard. Is not the purpose of the banking inquiry to get to the truth of what happened? If...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is everything that is wrong with politics.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I move that leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for annual ministerial expenditure ceiling programme reports and an annual statement of financial risks in order to increase transparency in the specification of programmes and to provide for measurable target outcomes intended to be delivered within ministerial expenditure ceilings, to improve transparency of...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is work which has already been discredited.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us pretend there is nothing wrong is essentially what the previous speaker has just said. It is a fact that we need a banking inquiry but we only need one that is credible and has the confidence of the public. This one has lost all of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I would appreciate if the snide remarks from the other side of the House were cut short.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Unless the Taoiseach honours the original result of the Committee of Selection and reverts to that, the only credible option is to ask all Opposition members to step down from the banking inquiry. This has lost the entire confidence of the country. I was shocked by what the Minister for Finance, a man for whom I have huge respect, said yesterday. He said that it was normal practice for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Instead of a democratic revolution-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----what we are actually getting is an autocratic revolution. On top of this the Taoiseach is the Minister for Defence as well. Let us think of the power that is there.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is very worrying. It is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a man whom I supported to be the Taoiseach and leader of this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What I am trying to say is this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are we in a parliamentary democracy or not? If so, let us accept democratic outcomes. I do not want an autocracy but, currently, that is what we are getting. We are getting fixing and tampering and the Taoiseach has attempted to abolish this House and to ignore a committee of this House. I repeat my call that unless we revert to the original result from the Committee of Selection for the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.