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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will take up the matter with the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As an associate member of a teaching union, I have been somewhat disturbed by the e-mails I have been receiving from the union encouraging me to vote in favour of industrial action. It is the right of unions to do so, but the question is whether it is responsible for the union leadership to be encouraging strike action at a time of national economic collapse. I do not believe they speak for...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was artificial.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She was the first woman Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like other Members, I congratulate Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on her nomination as Ireland's EU Commissioner. I wish her well and hope she achieves her goals. She is a woman of very strong principles. Go n-éirí an bóthar léi. I am quite upset about the manner in which student hardship has been trivialised in this Chamber over the last few days.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a pretty serious issue. It is time the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government came to the House to discuss the delays in paying student grants. I have been in contact with a student in Cork who has been living in a car for nine weeks. I am aware of the case of a student in Galway who was allowed by the college to repeat his exams on medical grounds after he...

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey. It seems I always put Adjournment matters to him and I trust he has good news for all the couples and families waiting to adopt babies from Russia. I call on the Minister for Health and Children to indicate when the blacklist regarding post-placement records of children adopted into Ireland from Russia will be cleared. This clearance is...

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: From what the Minister of State said, the blame rests with adoptive families who have not facilitated home visits by the HSE. Can they not be hurried?

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is clearly what was said.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the remarks by the Governor of the Central Bank regarding the dangers of capping salaries and his intimation that this could lead to an engagement in risky loans? Has the culture in this regard not changed? If not, where does the regulator come in? This important issue is the lead story in today's Irish Independent. I ask the Leader...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No preventative solutions.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I join in the welcome for Senator James Carroll to the House. However, I also welcome my colleagues from County Cork and other counties that have been cut adrift, such as my native county of Galway, which have suffered severely in recent days from flood devastation. While I am delighted the Leader has facilitated the appearance today in the House of the Minister for the Environment,...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the question.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is only a dribble.