Results 5,501-5,520 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader give me an audition?
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We need quotas there too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Well said, Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They may both get through today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are ready for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That needs to be clarified. That is all.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. I listened to his contribution in my office and heard him say that something is being given back to all public servants with the lower paid getting the most proportionately. In principle I thought that sounded fair and reasonable. When I look at the detail and dig down there are a number of punitive measures in the Bill that are quite objectionable and it is not...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am referring to these people.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, but I am. Let me speak to this measure.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the INTO has but what I am trying to say is that the Minister is hitting at the democratic right of people to say "No" and is punishing them for exercising their right to say "Yes" or "No". This could lead to a loss of thousands of euro for teachers and lecturers throughout their career. This threat is disproportionate and wrong and it must be stopped but the effect of this is...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: To be fair, I have the floor. I would like to ask the Minister the question and he might address it in his summing up.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If that teacher voted "No" to the Lansdowne Road agreement will he or she receive the €1,000 for substitution and supervision work? That is my question to the Minister. If not, the Minister is punishing such teachers for exercising their democratic right. If teachers do not carry out the substitution and supervision work, somebody will have to do it and they will have to be paid....
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If it is over, the Minister should not hurt some over others. As we have all agreed, and the Minister agreed in the Dáil, a pension is a property right and the right to property is the second highest right in this land, after the right to life. How is this fair? The Minister should please assure our colleagues that their pension rights will be restored and give the date for that. The...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We were brilliant in the past.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What will a casual teacher on €23,000 get back? Will the Minister, please, answer that question?
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is forcing them.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No, thank you.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The need to promote peace across the globe is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Here in Ireland, issues relating to our national security are deserving of priority. One of the key underlying factors that is fuelling the activities of ISIS is the radicalisation of Muslim youth, a phenomenon to which Ireland is not immune. According to Deputy Alan Shatter, former Minister for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, it is important that I put these questions. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to discuss the teaching of world religions in schools as part of the religious education curriculum, with a view to issuing guidelines in that regard? Second, will the Leader invite the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to the House for a debate on...