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Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Where is Senator Paul Coghlan?

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Mullins contribution on Syria. Children in Syria are displaced. They are not receiving any education. I am part of a programme called "UpForSchool" which is aimed at getting the 58 million children worldwide who are not at school worldwide into school. This September there will be a UN summit where all world leaders will be asked to sign a commitment to sustainable...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate the Leas-Cathaoirleach's support.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to outline for her the reason Galway County Council's municipal district of Connemara should be designated as a separate stand-alone lot under the social inclusion programme, SICAP, and to suggest social inclusion funding should be awarded accordingly. The decision taken by the Department, overseen by Galway County Council, has caused uproar in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----and this would not give her the same service or understand her unique problems. To be fair to GRD in Athenry, it is not claiming it has the capacity. Will the Minister revisit this decision? As I understand it, it is now under judicial review. It was an appalling decision.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: For the second largest county in Ireland, the ideal decision is that Galway would be divided into two lots and that Connemara would be a stand-alone, separate lot. I thank the Minister of State and the indulgence of the House in respect of the time allocated to me.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is understood.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and the House for its indulgence in respect of the time. I hear what the Minister of State is saying about national policy. That is not at issue here. I accept that the national devolves to local, etc., but the issue here is the way the committee made its decision. It is not putting people first at local level. If it was, this decision would...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It messed up here.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They were not adequately informed.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State and will relay her message.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am raising an interesting issue that has come to light recently. I am asking the Minister for Education and Skills to recognise inequities that are arising for Galway second level students where both dyslexia and a language exemption co-exist. This problem is particularly affecting girls. It seems from a survey that has been done - I can read...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State's reply was general and it was not specific to the case. I accept that he has acknowledged the solution. I did not say this in my initial contribution, but this family has been on to the Minister twice about this issue. I hear what the Minister of State said about schools in a central location sharing resources to address this problem.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If schools do not have move on that, what can the Minister request schools to do?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is important to provide guidelines because schools frequently do not react unless they are advised to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The scheme to administer a mobility allowance to people with disabilities has not yet been finalised by the Department of Health. I am meeting a lot of people with disabilities who are angry at being forgotten about. I have written to the Department on several occasions and received assurances that the issue is being worked on, but nothing has happened. If the Leader could issue a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know how the 300,000 people who are paying above and beyond to service their mortgages are managing. In many of the cases of mortgage restructuring of which I am aware, the people involved actually had tracker mortgages. One can hardly imagine how much variable rate mortgage holders are struggling. Will the Leader ask the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance to introduce the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is true.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They know how business is done.