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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Property Tax Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That gives me at least a little hope.

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I agree with Senator Sean Barrett that he has made a very fine contribution to the portfolio. We do not have a bottomless pit but because of the way we do our budgets every year, we give the wrong impression to the public that we do. It is unforgivable that we continue in this vein. I have said it before in this House. Last year I published a budget...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise.

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will take 30 seconds to make a second point on budget reform. When the Government announces its spending caps, it should be announcing targets and saying what aspects of the expenditure of individual Departments worked and did not work in the last term. It is wrong that there is no impact assessment. The waiting lists for scans are ridiculous. I will finish on this point. A young woman...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is great clarification. I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That makes much more sense.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have huge sympathy for the families living in the fire trap building, and I support much of what I have heard Senator Hayden say here. Who could afford to pay €18,000 per unit to make the apartments liveable in? I want the Leader to address my next question in his reply. What action will the Government take so that innocent homeowners are not the victims of shoddy below-standard...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is on the issue of pensions only.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is most welcome. I did not realise has was only recently married. I wish to extend my congratulations to him. We have a problem to solve and it is urgent. Ireland must step up to the plate. It is stepping up to the plate, but Ireland needs to show more leadership on the global stage. One prong of the solution involves solving the war in Syria and that is no joke....

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It has not.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am happy to clarify it. What action has been taken against Assad the tyrant and against the growth of ISIS? The UN has to get in there. Our goal should be to take Syrians. I agree with the suggestion about 4,000 families. I am keen for the Minister of State to clarify the word "family" as opposed to "individuals". I agree with that much, but our goal should be to recreate their...

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A man in Galway who is homeless has contacted me on a number of occasions and he asked me to tell those families that he would take their offer of care. Irish families are stretching out to the Syrian refugees. I believe the Government should solve our own housing crisis first. I was glad to hear what Senator Bacik said.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Bacik referred to news from the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality yesterday. However, it must be put out on the public airwaves. It is bigger than this. We may talk about things in this House but that does not mean the word is getting out.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State should tell us the news. He should tell us when it is happening. He should tell us that we are not going down the road of a segregated "pack 'em and rack 'em" approach. That is terrible language but that is what has happened refugees and asylum seekers in the past.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the language being used on the street. I agree that it is terrible.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: By any objective standard, Governments have done a poor job, not just this Government, but the previous Government as well.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Seriously, seven to ten years in direct provision.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How is that humane?

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is unfair.

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I did not get responses to my questions either. I wanted a simple clarification. Are we talking about 4,000 individuals or 4,000 families?