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Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish the Minister of State a good evening.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I hope the Minister has good news for me because I do not recall much good news on previous Adjournments. I ask the Minister of State to inform the House, on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, when the proposed building project for Scoil Mhuire, Moycullen, County Galway, will receive sanction from the Department. The board of management applied for a school extension ten years...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Minister of State clarify if approval of the project has been delayed because the Department has not received a detailed proposal from the school on its long-term needs? If he had that, could he give a date for sanction?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is union speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are at a time of real opportunity if the opportunities are grasped. It is great news that Monday's national strike is called off but now the Taoiseach has a real opportunity on his hands if he grasps it. A proper social partnership model needs to be formulated to include, in addition to the existing social partners who are very important, small and medium enterprises and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is talking about——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——a three to five-year plan for this country. I completely agree with him. That is what is needed. However, I would like to know why he is willing to break the 9.5% borrowing limit. Is it because he has already been put under pressure by the Government? The Minister for Finance is coming to the House in an hour or two and I would like the Leader to ask him to outline the bones of this...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance to bring the plan to the House? I have been assessing the performance of Ministers and the least accountable to this House is the Minister for Education and Science. It is appalling how little time he has given to us. Education is now at risk again. We read today that it has been proposed to take €2 billion off the education building programme.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am asking the Leader to make the Minister for Education and Science accountable to this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are losing teachers, affecting pupils, losing building programmes and not protecting the higher education sector.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sick of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time the Minister for Education and Science was accountable to this House.

Seanad: Forthcoming Budget: Statements (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share time with Senator Joe O'Reilly.

Seanad: Forthcoming Budget: Statements (26 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Kitt. It is good to see him in the House. The debate is on pre-budget statements and I will use it as an opportunity to point out the need to rein in spending and costs but also to look at opportunities for growth the Government should be grasping for the sake of the country. We have a €25 billion budget deficit and we are funding pensions...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is letting them in at last.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The nation is indeed holding its breath to hear what is in the budget. I am glad there was a number of Cabinet meetings about it. Meanwhile, the banking problem has not gone away, it is still a monster. We learn today that there is €56 billion of toxic debt in the Irish banking system. We are not sure what the Minister is planning for it, perhaps some kind of asset management model, but...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: An bhfuil tú cinnte?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The measured party.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My goodness.