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Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, will the Leader indicate whether everybody in the House will be given an opportunity to speak and at what time does he expect the debate to finish?

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am last but hopefully not least.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome. I thank him for his patience and listening. I wish him well in his new role as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. It is good to be here today. I was one of the people who supported the recall of the Seanad. Many people asked what we can do and if we can make a difference. We only have to recall the bravery of those few young girls in Dunnes Stores in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome back colleagues. It is good to be back and it is time to start working. Over recent weeks and during the next month, there has been and will be much speculation about the budget and its contents. People will be worried and so on, and for this reason I seek to have No. 26 on the Order Paper debated in the Chamber. It is my own Bill on reform of the budgetary process and is called...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Susan O'Keeffe will probably take one minute of the time. She thought my matter was being taken after Senator Byrne's, as a result of which she has just left the House. Perhaps someone could give her a call.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not a problem. The Minister of State is very welcome. We are facing into a wonderfully big year in the life of W.B. Yeats, as next year will be the 150th anniversary of his birth. My motion asks the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure Fáilte Ireland would consider providing a licence to the Yeats Thoor Ballylee society, of which I am chair, to enable...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very grateful to the Minister of State. This is good news. It is the first day of the new term of Seanad Éireann, the House in which W.B. Yeats served from 1922 to 1928, and in which his son served subsequently. This is a great way to honour his memory. I have been feeling quite unwell all day but suddenly I am feeling great. I appreciate this because it is the way things...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Significant historical moments have been mentioned in the House this morning and culture has been referred to also. Yeats has been quoted liberally and next year we will celebrate his 150th birthday. Senator Susan O'Keeffe and I are heavily involved in the preparations for this event and last night we won a significant victory in this House on this matter. In 2009 the ancestral home of...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When speaking about old heads and new tricks, Senator Paul Coghlan chose his words well. I am disappointed that Fine Gael has struck a new low. The appointment of a person in order to make him eligible for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know what the Senator was talking about, but his remarks crossed over into the appointment of a person to make him eligible for nomination and, in this case, caused him to be successful in winning a Seanad seat. That is job fixing. In what other area could one do this and get away with? Why demean the Seanad in this way? It is appalling. Some of us value this place - I certainly do....

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----I am severely disappointed. I call on the Leader to invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, to come to the Seanad to discuss and debate the issue of beef farming. While many farmers will attend the ploughing championships this week and much has been said about growth in the economy, this is not the case for beef farmers. They are being paid...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Why did he-----

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome and I congratulate her on her appointment. It is highly regrettable that her first visit to the Seanad has been met with this type of, and it is the word on the street, a good scam. As Senator Bacik said------

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The word on the street, unfortunately, is that it is a good scam by Fine Gael. As Senator Bacik said, the perception is definitely unfortunate in this regard. I have one or two questions that I would be delighted if the Minister would answer to clarify a few things. She is in the privileged position of being able to put official information on the record of Seanad Éireann. Was she...

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. Within two to three weeks of his appointment he will have to stand down. This surely creates the greatest cynical stroke of politics in recent times. I have a key question for the Minister. Was she aware, or unaware, that Mr. McNulty was going to be a Seanad candidate at the time of his appointment? Government policy says that it is going to advertise these...

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information, will the Minister be answering the questions posed to her?

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a farce.