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Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A rescue.

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is not doing that at the moment. It is cutting out disability allowance.

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not a bit.

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the first official recession in Europe.

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House on our first day back in the Seanad. I hate to start by saying I was really disappointed with his speech and that he did not go into some of the detail of the guarantee being given by our taxpayers to the banks today. This measure is unprecedented in our history and the biggest blank cheque we have ever written. The Minister of State gave us no...

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is outrageous. What are these people doing? Are they doing a job? Are there other people in the HSE doing the same jobs and are they not competent enough to do them? Is that why they are being paid this extra overtime? One garda received €83,000 extra. Another garda said to me recently that he must not have gone to bed at all. What is the Government going to do to control this?

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to hear answers from the Minister to the four issues I have raised. The taxpayer needs to be assured that there is a sound basis, that there is not a false bottom in our economy.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Overnight serious concerns have been expressed to me about the lack of clarity in regard to the various risks to the taxpayer as a result of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008. Before we agree to this legislation, we need to ensure it is good and sound. For example, if I deposit my money in Ulster Bank and Senator Cassidy deposits his money in Allied Irish Banks——

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——he now has a State guarantee but I do not have one.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Unintentionally, the Minister for Finance may have exposed banks which are sound——

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that but it is very important we raise these questions in order that Members have time to think about them before the debate. There must be a level playing field. Farmers have contacted me to say that in the past week, millions of euro have been deposited in the single farm premium in some of these banks which will not have the State guarantee. Is the Government taking...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How does the Leader know I do not?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am representing the taxpayer.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect——

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He spoke directly to me and I would like to respond.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move: "That Seanad Éireann noting; the massive shortfall in day-to-day funding of primary schools and their over-reliance on fundraising as the new means of funding primary education; the Department of Education and Science's decision to abolish the Summer Works Scheme for primary schools in 2007/2008 and the failure to date to reinstate the scheme for 2008/2009; the deferral of minor...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Given the state of the economy, we are at a particularly critical time in our history. The underfunding of primary school education is causing a serious situation. I intend to raise five points, which I would like the Minister to address in his reply. I will begin by examining how we fare compared to other OECD countries. The recent OECD report entitled "2008: Education at a Glance", which...