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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Nineteen seventy eight, how are you?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to come to the House. We are in the middle of an economic recession but I do not believe we have had the Minister to the House to address the very serious issue of the emigration that has now begun. Are the Government and the Tánaiste aware that middle income fathers are emigrating, leaving their wives and young children...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is a member of the party that has espoused education as its main platform.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to the questions.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have examined the education cuts. The education system was already creaking, under huge strain and just about managing. I do not know what hope there is for that system or how it will manage. I am worried that after Christmas schools will have to send children home for health and safety reasons. There will be all-out revolution because the parents may not be at home to take the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——just to get cover substitution to keep children at school. One way or another, the children will lose. The Government will also lose because it will not make the financial savings it is hoping out of this ridiculous cut. I have come to the conclusion——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——that the quality of our children's education can no longer be assured.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What leadership can the Green Party show in this regard?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: For the past three weeks I have called for the Minister for Education and Science to attend the House and address these attacks on the quality of our children's education. I still have no answer. Would the Deputy Leader please listen to me?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am looking for an answer on that today. The Deputy Leader also has to answer for all the promises on education he made on his website. I look forward to hearing his response today.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is apartheid.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will move the Deputy Leader on.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We recognise what the Government has done to the economy.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: One should never cut current spending when it comes to children.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about Ralph Nader?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not true.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Senator of the view that we should have such a day of celebration here?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I share the congratulations and hope at the dawn of a new era with the election of the President-elect, Senator Obama. His example so far and the vision he has put forward offer hope that there will be good, clean, positive politics that can bring about change for the better. The issue I wish to raise is the concern that has been brought to my attention by parents, young people and addiction...