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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Come clean.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is up to the Minister to mandate him.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Call on the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would say Senator Leyden has convinced the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Name and shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Leyden knows the names.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As other speakers have indicated, the view is widespread among the public that there is a strong likelihood that Fianna Fáil is closely associated with the inner circle, the inner ten, in Anglo Irish Bank. This situation is leading to great instability——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——both politically and economically. The reason people are suspicious includes the following: the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, did not show real muscle in dealing with the banks. He did not clear out the boards in line with good international practice; he did not adequately protect home owners; and he did not use his leverage to unburden hard-pressed couples with fixed...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to a question. Their working capital to run their farms and provide for their families is gone. They entered into bridging and term loan arrangements, with genuine expectations of being paid. It is absolute rubbish to say that the Minister did not know. Applications were approved and signed off by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader please invite the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to address the Seanad? These farmers must be paid. We need an urgent debate on this. It is not fair to scapegoat farmers, who do not leave the country but continue to work, even when they are unemployed. Now they find themselves in difficulty in paying for basics.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to please bring the Minister into the Seanad as a matter of urgency to address the issue of the farm waste management scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what everyone in the street is saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are the ordinary people of Ireland.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. As we are from the same county, he should be intimately familiar with all the issues I intend to raise. I compliment Senator Doherty on putting the west on the agenda. It was time this was done. In the early 1990s, I returned from the United States, having lived there for four years. I saw an advertisement in the paper asking whether one wished to live in the west...

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the funding?

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am glad to hear it.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I hear it when the Minister is there. Perhaps the Minister can give me better news in respect of the outer city bypass, which is something of a joke.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Half of the outer city bypass is approved but the other half is suspended.