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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This relates to the cervical cancer vaccine. Why are we hiding something? What have we got to hide?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is absolutely time these children were assessed and treated.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is appalling.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not sorted yet.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not the same one.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit and I am delighted to speak on this Bill. On 1 December 2010, I brought this issue to John Moloney, the Minister of State in the previous Government, and asked him why Ireland was not ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The reason was, for example, because this Bill was not in place. At the time, he assured me the...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The landlord regulation is one prong of a housing solution. When is the Government going to start building houses? When will it start a social housing building programme? When will it release National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, lands that are held by the State to enable building to start? We need a multi-pronged approach to get at this crisis. Everybody in this House must be having...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need a multi-pronged approach to this problem. The landlord aspect is but a drop in the ocean although it is welcome.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will have the results on Thursday.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will invite Senator Cummins to Galway.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When will they be built?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When will they be ready?

Seanad: Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill: Second Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. The Bill is interesting and I compliment Senator Moran - in fact I should have introduced such a Bill, myself. It is interesting to have both Ministers responding and we should have more of this because both of them have responsibility for that age group. The reason I say I should have introduced such a Bill is that in 2010, the Oireachtas committee did an early...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is unbelievable.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And NAMA.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Today is a very special day in the history of Galway city and county. Today we present our case in Dublin Castle for the European Capital of Culture. Galway Chamber of Commerce has shown leadership extraordinaireand agreed to a 3% increase in rates on the basis that it will be ringfenced for cultural activities. To other cities and counties around the country, I say "Follow that". I...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a positive thing. He speaks about the human cost of the economic recovery. Not enough research is done in that area. He says what really matters is the lived experience of our families, communities and people with disabilities. I could not agree with him more. There have been 4,500 repossession orders this year in Ireland, 307 of which were in Galway. This is foolishly adding to...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a question that I hope the Leader can answer today. If he cannot, I understand that and I ask that he come back to the House with an answer on this issue. It is something that has come to me of late in the context of so many repossessions and it is of deep concern to our families and communities around the country because we need trust. We need to trust.