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Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: General practitioners have informed me that their budgets are so tight, they are unable to replace obsolete equipment. The Minister of State is correct that we must shift our focus from hospitals to primary care and the community setting. To do this, we must help general practitioners to buy the diagnostic equipment they require to carry out X-rays in the community and procure the...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not what I asked.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information, my question was about how many GPs the Minister of State needs to sign up to the scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not wish to follow the musical highs of Senators Barrett or Mullen but it is an understatement to say the Garth Brooks events are resonating more deeply with the public than the Cabinet reshuffle. On a more serious note, approximately 20% of the working population in Ireland has spend money on this event. We are always trying to reactivate and inject confidence into the domestic...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Could somebody please tie all of this together? Our beloved Garth Brooks also needs to be a tiny bit flexible if he wants the ship to reach the shore and to stay here. It is a no-brainer. If the licensing laws are such and cannot be fixed, could we tie it up so that the concerts can happen in Dublin, in particular as Croke Park and the Football Association of Ireland are willing to offer...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is Senator Mullins not welcoming it?

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House and congratulate her on her election as leader of the Labour Party. Her leadership and judgment as a female marks new territory in this country, particularly for the Labour Party. I wish the Tánaiste well in the future. I welcome this Bill. I thank the Tánaiste for acknowledging my work in relation to a particular section of this Bill,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cromwell's words, "To hell or Connacht", have been enshrined in our memory. However, when the Taoiseach was making the appointments yesterday, even at Minister of State ranks, he appears to have forgotten Connacht. I realise that he is a west of Ireland Taoiseach but a Taoiseach cannot function as a Minister. I am appalled, in the interest of balanced regional development, that Galway was...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not just about Galway, but about Galway as the economic driver for the region. It has 250,000 people, is a cultural capital, is a university city and has attracted foreign direct investment, FDI, although less in recent times. The majority of the announcements are now in Cork and Dublin. The entire west relies on Galway. If the Taoiseach had read the reports from the Western...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On another issue, will the Leader write to the chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee, Sir Nigel Rodley, who described Family & Life's submission in defence of the unborn child as "breathtakingly arrogant"? I ask him to remind Mr. Rodley that the unborn has constitutional rights in this country.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the Parliament.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would also like to wish everybody on all sides of the House a happy summer and a well-deserved break. I look forward to coming back here in the autumn. I really believe that this House, which is a House of Parliament, should be shaping the Ireland we want. We are the voices that have been elected to give guidance to Government and to inform Government choices. Government actions speak...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to a question. It makes that very worthwhile promotion in the senior ranks by Fine Gael look like mere tokenism for women. If we are serious about organisational change, our leaders must lead by example. When we come back in the autumn, I am looking for a debate about gender in politics and whether having women leading in politics means anything at all. Does it mean anything...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate the Minister on his elevation to the post of Cabinet Minister.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know. I believe I sat in front of the Minister in the last Seanad. It is good he has this role because he has an understanding of this House, what it can do and what it could do, if it was given teeth. It is good that this is now in his remit and I believe history will be kind to him if he grabs hold of it. Let us face it, the Government has been less than decent in how it has perceived...

Seanad: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to follow up on the issue Senator Zappone has raised, namely, whether the banking corporation could have a role in social entrepreneurship. Not everything has the hard-and-fast approach of SMEs but yet in communities throughout the country social entrepreneurship can have a wonderful impact. It can have strong social as well as economic outcomes. At a time when a country has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the IFA for its presentation. It was said farm incomes had fallen to between €10,000 and €16,000, which is appallingly low. Has there been an increase in farm assist? If so, what has it been? Will Mr. Comer outline the up-to-date position on GLAS because there was a march to Agriculture House? I would like to flag the beef crisis. Will Mr. Comer outline what he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That will not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the point. In regard to road hauliers, the figure of €400 was mentioned as a benchmark for equalising the cost of changing the HGV arrangement. Can we get an up-front assurance that trucks would re-register here? That is the minimum needed to even risk changing the rules because obviously the Government is always worried about losing revenue. The point was made that...