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Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (19 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, and his officials to the House. This is an important debate. Our job must be to get the economy moving and working for the people. I feel a great sense of powerlessness, however. No matter what I say, it makes no difference. The economy is in free-fall and nothing serious is being done to intervene. The public, too, has lost faith. When I...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (19 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are worth anything to this country now because they will give hope. Imagine if we had a bunch of new employers, indigenous people in small businesses ready to employ people. Would that not inject confidence? That is what the Government needs and Fine Gael is advising the Minister of State of that. The Minister for Finance could intervene with the banks now. I have been contacted by...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (19 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (19 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And walk all over us.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in the eyes of the court.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I request that the Leader make time available for a calm, serious debate on the mandatory reporting of child abuse. It is time such a debate took place in Ireland. Senator O'Toole referred to the extremely important distinction between the protection of the child and the protection of the family. This is a taboo subject with which we are all afraid to deal. I was one of those teachers...

Seanad: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (27 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share time with Senator Fitzgerald. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is time we got on with this because the commission has been sitting for nine years. We, in Fine Gael are happy to support the time extension requested by the Minister of State but it is time to finish up and, therefore, this should be the final extension. Is the reason for the delay the need to...

Seanad: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (27 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In light of the recent revelations regarding the Roscommon incest case and the Cloyne diocese, does the Government intend to ask the commission to conduct investigations into other allegations of child abuse? The Minister of State said it would have a future role. What type of role will it have and will it have a role in new emerging cases of abuse? In light of recent revelations can we...

Seanad: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (27 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Up Kerry.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is not in touch, though.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a speech.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: People are very concerned about the stability of our economy. Those I spoke to in Galway last weekend asked a fundamental, serious question. They wondered whether if the State guarantee on deposits had to be called on, the State would be able to pay. This question arises because the Minister for Finance was not honest with the people during the course of the debate last week on Anglo Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to ask the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach to outline a roadmap on where we are going and to outline the multi-annual plan to which Senator Donohoe referred and to include the worst case scenarios. We need to know what the back-up plan is if things go wrong. The Irish people have a right to know the real story. We cannot fool the people any longer. I call again for...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the regulator's fault.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How was it allowed to happen?

Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is parochial politics.