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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader should stop being so patronising.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: People are losing their homes.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for agreeing to do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am saddened by the news that Foinse could go to ground. Will the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, intervene to save the newspaper? It is a newspaper for all Irish-speaking people and the Gaeltachtaí, and it is based in Carraroe in the Minister's constituency. The money he could direct into the newspaper would be better spent than the money...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sure many Members are getting e-mails that it is already under threat. Up to 81,000 places are needed for next year. The cap of €64.50 per child per week the Minister of State has put on the fee is unworkable. No preschool provider can produce places at such a cost. All the providers are seeking is the possibility for the parents to top up the fee. There are serious quality issues...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not a bad idea. It might be a means to stop Senator Ross speaking out, however. We need him speaking out.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader. I appreciate that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the preschool scheme?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate former Senator Alan Kelly and wish him well in Europe. Politics is about people's lives and the positive effect it can have on the quality of their lives. Today, I am particularly dismayed to hear that only ten of the 128 special needs classes which the Minister for Education and Science proposes to cut won their appeal. In one of the unsuccessful classes, which I know well,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Since last September we have been fixated on using taxpayers' money to help the banks. Anglo Irish Bank is enjoying €7.5 billion of taxpayers' money and one must ask, for what end? It is time we turned our attention to helping home owners who now face real challenges in meeting their mortgage payments. The banks have signed up to a moratorium not to foreclose for six to 12 months after...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I conclude?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, I wish to finish my point. The article says the bilateral should have been automatically renewed unless revoked in writing.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, to come to the House to be asked whether Ireland has cancelled the bilateral agreement in writing, thereby preventing foreign adoptions from Vietnam.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are not making progress.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Do it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Go for it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should raise it with the Minister.