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Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If it is not accurate, the Senator should not say it.

Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. How he takes this issue forward will be critical for the nation in the context of the message he sends to the public. Not one of us would be present if we did not serve a public. I am disgusted by the recent revelations concerning FÁS because, like everyone else, I am familiar with the work the organisation does in our communities, which I have admired,...

Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am glad he is coming before the Committee of Public Accounts. I remember him saying that he broke no rules. This is the worry. If he broke no rules, the rules need to be changed. It reminds me of the interview by the former Commissioner, Mr. Pádraig Flynn, on "The Late, Late Show", when he spoke about how difficult it was for him to manage X number of houses and housekeepers. It shows...

Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Appointments should be made only on a merit basis and not as a result of political favours or cronyism.

Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The only questions that should be asked when a person is being appointed are what can each member of a board contribute to the organisation and will they add value. Does the Minister of State realise people are willing to be voluntary appointees of boards without any allowance or expenses? I was a director of the Galway Airport board, where I was glad to contribute. There are many more...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Or the Irish language.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Politically sensitive.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The arts are wider than Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Aontaím go daingean leis an Seanadóir Ó Tuathail faoin gcinneadh uafásach de bharr na ndeontais le haghaidh na coláistí samhraidh. I agree completely with Senator O'Toole who decried the total idiocy involved in cutting the grants for Irish summer colleges. This is the one way we are managing to keep our language alive for children in the Galltacht. Even where children hate the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the clarification. I am concerned that Ireland is an uncompetitive country where a job is lost every three minutes and consumers are voting with their feet and travelling to Northern Ireland to do their shopping. Tax returns have reduced considerably and I seek two open debates in this regard. It is time to debate the social partnership model because I am not...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is relying on an old plan to solve today's problems and that is unwise. The debate on the economy should also examine the social partnership model. I would like its advantages and disadvantages outlined in an open debate. We should also debate with an open mind the advantages and disadvantages of the Aer Lingus-Ryanair proposal. A year ago, Aer Lingus was allowed by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Transport to the House to discuss the major infrastructural projects in Transport 21 he plans to suspend and to outline when they will be restored?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time he delivered.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: But not Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in Galway.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A number of weeks ago I made an urgent request of the Minister for Health and Children to introduce legislation to control the sale of herbal ecstasy in head shops throughout the country. Senator Wilson repeated the call in an Adjournment debate. I reiterate the request as a result of numerous calls from parents and health officials yesterday in Galway city. The head shop in Galway has...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Time and again, newspapers publish results without noting how the children were performing when they entered first year. However, it is time for the Government to examine the resources and funding it provides to fee paying schools and, especially, what the team of teachers in these private schools are doing differently to produce these results, and I suspect they are doing something differently.