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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are well aware of them.

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what it is all about.

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would Senator Leyden accept it?

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Senator Leyden accept our Private Members' Bill?

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. It is nice to see, for a change, that we are all of one mind here with regard to the dangers implicit in the products sold in head shops around the country. The Minister of State is familiar with the history of this issue. From autumn 2008 to March 2009, along with Senator Wilson and others, I ran a long campaign in the Seanad to get BZP banned. It was not...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is not doing much about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a disparaging remark.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What is this about new-found interest?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Where is it?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will have such a debate tomorrow evening.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: NAMA was dreadful.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yesterday the nation was shocked, as was I, by George Lee's quick exit from politics but it was no less a shock than that felt by the 175 people who lost their jobs in Boston Scientific, Galway, yesterday. The company is a wonderful employer with more than 3,000 workers but another 175 people have been hurt, their homes are under threat and they will have huge money worries, given the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How is it serving the country? Please tell me because I do not see it. People in Galway are saying politicians should forget about imposing a 30 kph speed limit in Dublin, for example, and they should get on with fixing the country. What is the Government doing about the real issues? Can the Leader bring the Minster for Finance to the House to give, as Senator Coghlan called for, an...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and I am pleased he has an official with him. Am I correct?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a major issue which concerns the lack of school places at Calasanctius College, Oranmore, which is causing major upset among parents in the parish and the wider catchment area the school serves. On behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, will the Minister of State verify the timeframe for delivery of the recommended Department of Education and Science extension for...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very concerned about the band rating of 2.5 assigned to the school, as clearly this is wrong. The Minister of State is denying the recommendations made in the Department's own report on school accommodation needs in south Galway, including Calasanctius College. Not only does it state capacity at Calasanctius College should grow to 800 pupils by 2012, it also states it needs this...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Senator want the job again?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, that was a disparaging comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, that was a most disparaging comment and it should be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have had a healthy debate on mental health this morning and I am delighted to speak on this subject. I want to refer to the person who has just spoken. In 1999 I worked in health promotion in the Midland Health Board.