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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator McFadden did not get a response to her point of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know if the Leader replied to my question on the issue of excise duty and request that he bring that matter to the attention of the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for that.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We did not address that matter.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The listening should have been done before.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted that the Minister of State, Deputy Roche, is in attendance for this debate. It is great to have him in the House given his role in the formulation of the Lisbon treaty. There is no doubt that the rejection of the referendum represents a significant embarrassment for the Government. On this occasion, we were on the Government's side. It is not as if due warning had not been...

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——because it was slow off the benches.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was delighted to see in The Irish Times today that 80% of the people still believe in the European project.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have been in the Union for 35 years so we had better stay with it. However, there are many issues to address. A total of 75% of the people I met on the streets of Galway told me that they believed Europe is good for Ireland but 20% of that 75% — this is when I knew we were in difficulty — intended to vote "No" and another 20% were undecided. Those margins were critical in this...

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a child's perspective on the Government campaign versus the "No" campaign.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He drew a little graphic for me which shows the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, saying: "Vote Yes right now", whereas the "No" campaigner was saying: "Let me explain how the treaty works".

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like Senator Ormonde, I spent time explaining the treaty to people, but many more people from the Government side should have been doing so. Last weekend, I spent a day in a coláiste Gaelach in Ros Muc.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My son and other youngsters were doing an Irish drama. It was a drama about the Taoiseach in which he was saying: "Cá bhfuil Bertie?" and "Cá bhfuil Charlie McCreevy?"——

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach was undermined by his Government because none of the Ministers campaigned. He was let down. Let us continue with what the young people said to me. Some said: "My mother voted "No" and I told her to do that because I do not want to be conscripted to an EU army". The issue of neutrality was not understood and people did not feel it was safeguarded. There is no doubt that due...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Callely can cherry-pick any part of it for himself.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was delighted to hear the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, state on "News at One" yesterday that he would take determined, resolute and prudent action in response to the growing recession in which we find ourselves and to the ESRI report. As many other speakers have said, we need to know before the summer recess what he means by that and the action he plans to take. We need to...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are under pressure now.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I hope so.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Several people have been replaced.