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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Do I detect a slightly condescending tone from Senator Coghlan in respect of matters in this House around collusion and councillors? Things have not improved on either front. Let us call a spade a spade. Action is needed on the collusion issue and on councillors. On the issue of councillors, political representation is vital to our citizens at all levels. I was a councillor, as were many...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. I have the floor. They get this class K PRSI that gives them no rights-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to finish. Their service should always be recognised. They deserve equality. Let us do something besides just agreeing with each other on this issue and let us move this on, as Senator Wilson said. With respect to the Leader, the Seanad schedule should reflect matters of urgency in this country and one-parent families are going to get the hatchet on 2 July. Up to now, they have...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Jun 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On your-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Our Greek colleagues are in desperate shape at the moment. I am very friendly with a member of parliament there who wrote to me on Monday and said she cannot believe this is happening so quickly that she may not be a European by the weekend. Of course, she will still be a European, but this is the result of reckless leadership by the Greeks themselves----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Norris is so right, but I am talking about today. Since this new Greek Government was elected a high-wire strategy is being played which is risking everything for all of us. We paid the price for the entire European banking system. We never got it back but that is another day's work. What I am talking about right now is the need to re-stabilise things. I want to check with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not repatriation.

Seanad: Growing Tourism to 2025: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister and am glad I was present to hear his speech because he said a number of things with which I agree. Looking at tourism through the lens of policy, people and place is wise. He also spoke about frameworks that his Department and the Government agencies were good at. I want to talk to him about the subject because there are areas that can be improved upon. That is the...

Seanad: Growing Tourism to 2025: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is Thoor Ballylee and refers to Yeats's tower. The long and the short of it is that the project represents our built and literary heritages. The project has been a draw for people. Since we opened the project three weeks ago - it is run by a voluntary committee without help from the State - we have taken revenue of between €1,500 and €2,000 a week in visitor fees. We have...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Higgins has started a very interesting debate, and I congratulate her on that. The contributions from Senators on both sides of the House are useful. They say when a Bill is opposed on Second Stage, it is being opposed in principle. I was touched by the arguments put forward on this side of the House because I welcome free speech, and I defend freedom of expression to the end. I...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not all of them. I am speaking about the four females and the males in the House at present. Everyone has a right to decide whichever way he or she wants, but my point is-----

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am commenting on the need for the Bill.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I acknowledged Senator Conway's value here. Do not take it personally.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On balance, I wish Senator Higgins well and we need to do a good bit of work on the Bill on Committee Stage. Let us move ahead.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Today, as others have said, is D-Day for lone parents when their payment is cut if their child has turned seven years of age. This is quite amazing. One must remember that these are lone parents and a seven year old is a very young child who cannot be left alone. If such children are left alone, that is neglect.The parenting would be called into question if that happened. I voted for this...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Did I or other Senators ever have to parent children alone? When my children were that age, I was glad to have a second parent. I take my hat off to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know how they do it. Let us not hang them out to dry. I thank the Leader for his time and look forward to the answer.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is trua nach bhfuil an tAire Oideachais agus Scileanna anseo ach cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta, Deputy Joe McHugh. I tabled this matter to ask the Minister for Education and Skills to facilitate the continuation of restricted recognition for graduates in Montessori education, as currently permitted under regulation 3 of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Ceart go leor.