Results 5,001-5,020 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is relevant to the water conservation package.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: All of the playing is over on the other side.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is entirely dishonest.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, they were meant to be taken together.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for being here. I have some questions on the forum. My concern is that forums seem great in principle, but in practice they are often not worth a whit and have few teeth. I was a member of the HSE forum for a while at which phenomenal issues were discussed and great questions were asked, but I am quite sure that not one bit of that was fed up the line. I never saw any...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will technical advice be available to members of the forum? If the forum is to have teeth and is not to be just a talking shop, they should have such technical advice. In that way it will be substantive and verifiable, and the members will not be knocked back every time and told that something is not legally permissible. I look forward to hearing the Minister's answers to those questions.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the previous speakers who have argued in favour of this amendment. We had a substantial debate in the House in October on this issue which really opened my eyes. When I looked into some of the research on this issue and the substantial body of knowledge that exists, I realised that we need to wake up. If only 2% of Europe is using flouride and the majority of that 2% is in...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not that it went anywhere.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Corrected? Speak factually.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Sorry about that.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: My gosh, that is the key question the Senator has asked.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am inclined to say that this is close to the most important amendment in the entire Bill - that Irish Water would be subject to a full review by the Comptroller and Auditor General. If it is not, who is minding the public purse?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Comptroller and Auditor General is someone who can stand back and review how we all operate. Who is monitoring the Minister if the Minister is going to have complete control? This is an absolute outrage. A €490 million State subvention is being given in 2014. Who is checking how that is spent? We have seen so many mistakes with Irish Water since it started. Who is minding the...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We closed our Christmas session with the water Bill and are opening our 2015 session with quite a number of concerns about the quality of our drinking water. Senator Wilson referred to reports of fuel smuggling and dangerous and possibly carcinogenic residues flowing into rivers. Senator Craughwell referred to health and safety concerns about water installations. Today's report by the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is 2015 according to the EPA.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister and wish him a happy new year. It is very welcome news that BreastCheck is being extended to women from 65 to 69. With a bit of luck that should improve their health outcomes and that is what I would call a good policy initiative. The Minister mentioned the universal GP service, that it has to be worked out with GPs, as I thought, and that it is optional for GPs....
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister should change it.