Results 1,641-1,660 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We got nothing for it.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not sure
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the â¬54 billion?
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Why did the Government not hit the quangos?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Technically, I agree with the Minister that unless foreign nationals have a right to be here they should not have the right to build up entitlements. I agree with the Minister in theory but in practice it is a little bit different. We are putting these cases into a backlog by not dealing with them for four or five years and in this way we are denying people their human rights. There is...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Carers.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Older people are receiving less than last year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Was that a Freudian slip?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the comments of Senators Quinn and Wilson in regard to the value of the leaving certificate applied. It is a programme I have studied and worked with, and I see it as an underrated programme in our sector. It is particularly useful for students who have a practical bent. It also has quite a higher order critical thinking element, which needs to be explored. I have three requests...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And politically.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the value of a life?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish Members of the House well for the new year and congratulate Senator Mooney on his re-election to this House. In particular, I wish the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, well with his recovery.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have two questions for the Leader. Will he ask the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, to confirm that he will do the same for all public servants as he did for the senior civil servants? In a sneaky Cabinet move on 23 December, their pay cuts of 12% and 15%, respectively, were reversed to 3% and 5%, respectively. What was that about? How could it be fair? Why is he giving preferential...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not adequate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Which never happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Fitzgerald on the point about senior civil servants. The Leader promised me an answer last week on why the Taoiseach reversed the pay cuts of senior civil servants on 23 December.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Indeed, but I contend it was highly unfair that he favoured the elite and did not do the same for everyone else. By reversing bonuses only it does not affect their pensions. That is where it is unfair. I have though a lot about the following and have come to the conclusion that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is doing a bad job. There are two main reasons...