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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Safety Strategy (4 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not what I am asking about.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like a debate on milk and the lifting of quotas in the dairy industry. We need to tease this out. I am glad to hear that a debate on the dairy industry is taking place in the Dáil. It is almost being painted like a new Celtic tiger, perhaps a milk tiger, but I am not so sure it is as clear as that. We need to tease out the ramifications for farmers. I know some farmers who...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That people are in debt and in mortgage debt is not new. It has been going for a number of years. I have been working closely with David Hall in this area on behalf of about 80 families. There has been some improvement for some people.The banks have started to do some good restructures. The number of people in grave difficulty who are close to repossession has been estimated to be between...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Academic council meetings are likely to take place in UCC and UL in the next few days where these proposals may be pushed through. This matter is of huge concern. I wish to state that children with dyslexia are exempt from the language requirement. I do not know the reasoning behind the proposal to remove the requirement for maths and languages but I ask Senators to let me tell them the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Sorry, Senator; I am about to make my argument, so please give me a break.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I sum up?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Qualifications in languages and maths are of concern because, as a country, we rely on those skills to keep up with the best.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That fact has been known for years and the situation has not changed. I ask the Leader to make a written proposal to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection, which is chaired by Deputy Joanna Tuffy, for immediate discussion. I also ask him to send a note stating his huge concern about the matter to the Minister for Education and Skills. It appears the Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate if Senators would not interrupt me when I am on my feet.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senators should stop upsetting each other.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the point.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Incorrect. I voted for civil partnership.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order. That is a terrible slight. I voted for civil partnershp and not reluctantly.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like that the record be corrected on that.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Sorry?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like Senator Norris to withdraw the comment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is ignorance.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The law currently only recognises the woman who gives birth to the child as the mother but the legislation proposes to change this. Commissioning parents here will become legal parents. There is an unacceptable blurring of biological lines to enable legal definitions to fit. This distortion of family will inevitably only serve to complicate matters for children as they grow up and we must...