Results 641-660 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was one of them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am looking for a total of one minuteââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: ââto talk about the attack on our children's education andââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: ââand the attack on our futures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do but am asking the Chairman for decent time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I totally respect the Chairman but have not been given a chance to articulate the facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Chairman does not realise there are worried teachers, parents and children.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I need an answer today on when we are to have this debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Wait until they get the most recent news.
- Seanad: Health Promotion Priorities: Statements (23 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Shame.
- Seanad: Health Promotion Priorities: Statements (23 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to speak about health promotion. During the middle to late 1990s and over the turn of the millennium I was on secondments of up to five years working in health promotion and public health in two different health boards and in the education sector in the formulation of the new school subject known as social, personal and health education. I re-examined the statistics for that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Twomey. As a means of addressing the current budgetary crisis, my party has proposed a one-year pay freeze from next September for public servants earning more than â¬50,000. Fine Gael recognises that difficult decisions must be made. However, I have spoken to one school principal and received e-mail...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That does little good for pupil-teacher contact times.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Different populations in different times.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It was ten years ago.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How many foreign national pupils were there then?
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The reality is different.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for attending the House. He is the fall guy for the Government, having been rolled out to deal with the medical cards and now he appears here. For the past two weeks, I have requested that the Minister for Education and Science address this issue in the House. It is appalling that he has taken time from pupil-teacher contacts by increasing class sizes. I am...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise, but they are welcome.