Results 4,741-4,760 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is back to first principles.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, will the Leader respond to the questions I put to him?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment proposed by Senator O'Donnell for the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to debate the issue of abuse of graduate entrants into medicine. I support her on that motion. We have all received the ballot papers for the Seanad by-election on 10 October. That by-election will be a test for all of us - a test of democracy in this country. We are seeing...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have a question. I am asking the Members of this House on the Government side whether enough Fine Gael and Labour Party Oireachtas Members will have the courage to stand up and abstain from voting for Mr. McNulty.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It absolutely is relevant.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Our Taoiseach and Tánaiste are meant to be giving leadership here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Instead they are calling on us to vote for stroke politics and cronyism as the way forward for our young people. That is not leadership.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order then.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach has just informed the Dáil that the by-election is in process and a candidate cannot be withdrawn.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I attended the MacGill Summer School in Glenties this summer where we discussed the political culture in this country and how until it changes there will be no change. If one examines the appointment of Mr. McNulty to the board of IMMA, the appointment of Mr. Quinlivan to the board of Irish Water and subsequently as a driver to a Minister of State, what strikes me is that the people...
- Seanad: Fluoridation of Water: Motion (1 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a very useful debate. I thank Senators Mary Ann O'Brien, Feargal Quinn and Katherine Zappone for tabling the motion. I do not have all the answers but I stand here as a concerned citizen, a legislator and a mother. I have heard enough to say that we should be concerned and careful. We are talking about the public water supply in Ireland that is fluoridated without us having a...
- Seanad: Fluoridation of Water: Motion (1 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it not up to Senator Mary Ann O'Brien to decide whether she is pushing it to a vote?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Seanad by-election has shone a new light on State board appointments and whether they are crony appointments. Last Saturday I read a report in the Irish Independentabout appointments to the board of Galway Harbour Company. The extension of Galway Port is a really important development for Galway. We have been waiting on this for years and the application for planning permission is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He is telling you what to do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sure the British ambassador will respond, so let us stop making a song and dance out of this and get on with the business of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the call for Irish Water to come in given the major disconnect between the people and the Government on their understanding of the company. I was canvassing in Dublin South West last night where that message was given clearly.