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- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are being patronised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: After the legislation is enacted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a dismissal of the answers sought.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about freedom of information?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about ministerial accountability?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Come on, let us make this House work.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will happily leave the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will happily leave the House because this House is not working.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This House is not working. Once again we have a dismissal of the questions asked. I will happily leave the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There is no accountability and the Leader is putting it aside once again. Senator Healy Eames withdrew from the Chamber.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence and for understanding the rare occasion when strong views need to be expressed in the House. We have an economic crisis in the country and every speaker today has touched on it. It is important union heads do not make it worse by promoting strikes and that they show real leadership at this time. I offer one fact to bear this out. The Union of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have a question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the experience of people day in, day out, regarding both cost and waiting list points of view. We spent six to eight hours waiting. One 93 year old woman spent 27 hours on a trolley with no argument taking place about her care or why she was not being well treated.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time we had a debate in this House on Fine Gael's fair care policyââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: ââthat plans to reduce waiting list times and provide universal health care.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Every week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I asked about the timeframe for the Student Support Bill 2008.
- Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is nice to have the Minister in attendance on such an important topic. As other speakers said, this is perhaps the most important legislation to have come before the Houses of the Oireachtas. When I try to comprehend NAMA, I am guided by the question: "What is in NAMA for the taxpayer?" To answer this question I must consider the most important issues facing the people and whether these...
- Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister. Near to where I live in Oranmore, there is an estate called Bramley where only 15 months ago the houses were selling for between â¬2.2 million to â¬2.4 million. Some of those houses were sold in the past six months for between â¬600,000 to â¬800,000. That is not a 30% write-down, it is closer to a 60% or 70% write-down. Deputy Varadkar wrote to the head of the...