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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That would be useful. It was interesting that the question came in during the course of the debate, which means that people are listening.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Check it out.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I am disappointed the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, is not present. I feel deceived by the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton. I voted for this cut when I was on that side of the House on the basis that she said she would not introduce this change to reduce the age for the one-parent family payment from 14 years to seven years until, to quote her famous phrase,...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I find the lone parent cut very difficult because I am always struck with admiration when lone parents come to see me. It is always the mother who comes to see me. They come to talk about the challenges to stay in education and continue to rear their child and generally it is to do a master's degree. I am struck by the mothers who rear their children and manage alone. The key word for me...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I need about a minute. Every parent, every mother, has a father, a partner.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There are two things the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, should have done. She should have come in with a proper child care system to allow parents go back to education and to allow them to work. She has not done that. The other question is, why are we not pursuing the father?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When one creates, one should be able to take responsibility for that. Whoever procreates should contribute.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have family members who have gone through this and I have friends who have gone through this. They have been in and out of courts trying to get the dual responsibility of the father to pay up for his children. If it fails in the courts, let us have direct payments from social welfare or from salaries. That is a policy I want to see implemented. What type of society are we propagating...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Follow that. Appalling outrage on both sides.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. I will share an incident one might consider local but it is a symptom of our health system. On Monday there were 81 people on trolleys in University Hospital Galway. One of those patients has severe dementia and she was on a trolley for two days. She did not even know where she was. Her husband, who is almost 80 years of age, told me he did...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, the Leader did not respond to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We had an Order of Business that was not concluded.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to have an opportunity to address the Leader this morning. He will recall that nine days ago I raised the issue of 17 homeless women in Dublin who are pregnant. It is a scandal. It has taken me a week to get one media outlet to cover this story. I compliment the journalist, Philip Ryan, of the Irish Independent, for covering it. I have met with some of these young women...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are either a caring society or we are not. I will continue to raise this issue over the coming days. I am relying on the Leader with regard to this issue. Is it true that we will not have any Commencement matters next week?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If that is the case, I have had a Commencement matter down regarding Innis Meáin national school for more than a week. It needs a second teacher. It has a woman working with children on her own, with no cover to allow her go to the bathroom or have her lunch.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is an unsafe situation for any teacher to be working in. I want to know the reason for that, and I look forward to the responses.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is unfair.

Seanad: Sittings of Seanad: Motion (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am opposing the motion on the basis-----

Seanad: Sittings of Seanad: Motion (17 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Vótáil.