Results 4,801-4,820 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are not asking the Minister to come to Galway. We just want him to talk to us about it.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, to the House. I am grateful that he is here to take this Adjournment matter as the senior Minister in the Department. My case is the need for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to consider the poor prospects of agency workers who exist on week-to-week contracts and how he can improve their lot. It is in everyone's interest that...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If the Minister or I were employed on one of these week-to-week contracts, we would not be able to plan our lives. What comfort can he give me to pass on to the considerable number of the workforce - 150,000 people - employed as agency workers? I look forward to the establishment of the commission on low pay. I could just as easily be talking on behalf of the employers' side or the small...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in terms of pay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I heard the Minister.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Or sick pay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand completely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Bring him into the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to follow up on what Senator Bradford has said. Such a debate is worthy of consideration. In a way the vote is collapsing for the Democratic Party because President Obama has not been the Messiah people expected him to be based on all his original promises. Everyone needs to learn from that situation. Will the Leader tell me when the Minister for Education and Skills will come to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That does not prevent it from happening in the future.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not if the factories are still in control.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, does that add an extra hour to the debate? If not, that is not what is being voted on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, that would mean that some people will not get into the debate at all and it is unfair as some people will be speaking twice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appeal to the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I appeal to the Leader and to the House on an issue as fundamental and important to the nation as water-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----that adequate time is given to this debate. It is not mathematically feasible to achieve what is being proposed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.
- Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that. In deference to all of us in this House who have burst ourselves to look for this time, could I ask the Cathaoirleach and the Leader to organise an extension of time?
- Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would add to that.
- Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand.