Results 601-620 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We also need to know the Government's ICT commitment and we require transparency in the schools building programme. I welcome the Minister's decision to provide a dedicated line in this respect. In addition, school principals should be relieved of some of their inordinately onerous paperwork. I look forward to some imaginative ways of achieving that, which should be easy to do. I commend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is budget day and I believe the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, has very important decisions to make. Our economy is in deep financial crisis due to collusion between big developers and the banks, supported by the Government, all for their own benefit. These people will now be allowed write off their own losses at the taxpayers' expense and at the expense of PAYE workers and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish the point. We are expectingââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: ââcosts of â¬1million at the High Court but the patient has still not saved any money.
- Seanad: Volunteering in Irish Society: Statements (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share my time with Senator Quinn.
- Seanad: Volunteering in Irish Society: Statements (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him on highlighting this important issue, the important role of volunteering in Irish society. Many points have been made that I had intended making and, therefore, I will make a few brief points. In my experience volunteerism is the lifeblood of local communities. I live in Oranmore, a burgeoning area of population growth. It is the...
- Seanad: Water Pollution (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Kitt, a fellow county person. I wish to raise the pollution of Lough Corrib which, as the Minister of State knows, is the source of Galway's drinking water and the effects of that pollution. Last Friday I heard a news report on the official Environmental Protection Agency results which said that Lough Corrib is a polluted lake which is the...
- Seanad: Water Pollution (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his response. We have been hearing about the water services investment programme for years and all these sewerage schemes have been on Galway County Council plans for years. The question I have is when Oughterard, Claregalway and Clonbur will have their tertiary treatment systems and whether the councils have the required funding yet?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to welcome the increase in capitation to help with the day-to-day costs of running schools, a point every speaker made during the debate on the Fine Gael motion on underfunding of primary education. It is not as much as we would like but it is a step in the right direction. I am flabbergasted, however, by the increase in pupil-teacher ratio. It should have been an...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the cruellest cut of all because it affects children's learning and their life chances in a highly competitive world. As a result of this cut in the pupil-teacher ratio, I ask urgently for a debate with the Minister for Education and Science on learning outcomes and the factors that affect it. This move shows he does not understand the importance of learning outcomes and the effects...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government was forced to act under EU regulations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Transport 21 projects have been delayed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government should listen to its backbenchers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is unfair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is totally unfair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A different population.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Thank you very much.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader announce a change on the pupil-teacher ratio?