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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are happy to support this Bill. It is worth reflecting on it, however, because it has huge potential for Ireland in its relations with the United States. It was established by the US-Ireland Alliance to honour Senator George Mitchell's contribution to the peace process and the tradition that was started by the Kennedy family, particularly the late Ted Kennedy. It is now in its tenth...

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senators in residence.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He means £2 million.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is an important amendment. I commend Deputies Ruairí Quinn and John Perry for alerting the Government to the need for it in the other House and I commend the Minister of State for bringing it forward here. Given the fund manager is American, would he or she listen to an Irish Minister, would he or she be compelled to do so and how would we enforce that requirement? The amendment is...

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will that be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas?

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The annual audited accounts.

Seanad: Diagnostic Laboratory Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is welcome. I thank her for taking this Adjournment matter. My question is to ask the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, if she will present evidence and justification for her comments in the Dáil on 8 December 2009 on public diagnostic laboratory services and if she will support them with respect to clinical laboratory services in the HSE. The...

Seanad: Diagnostic Laboratory Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for her response but I am not satisfied that the statement addressed the issue. Is the Minister concerned that her statements on the record will open the State to litigation?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about Senator Bradford's proposal to bring the question of social partnership before hearings of this House?

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move: That Seanad Éireann: noting— — the withdrawal of approximately 1,200 special needs assistants from schools throughout the country; — the Government's failure to implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act 2004; — the abolition of over 120 special needs classes last year; — the Minister for Education and Science's failure to publish advice...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us consider the facts. That is a disgraceful comment and the Minister approaches me in the very same way in the corridor. The truth hurts.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am being very accurate. I do not even need to listen to the Minister's comments. Currently there is a threat that 1,200 special needs assistants, SNAs, will be withdrawn from the schools throughout the country. The NCSE office told me this morning that, after the completion of reviews in 1,000 schools, 300 SNAs had already been withdrawn, with resource hours. The Government's policy of...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will have no problem in doing so. Last year the Minister abolished 120 special needs classes, with over 500 children being placed in mainstream classes. Some of these children even had to be toileted. Some of the schools in question are now at risk of losing further SNAs and resource hours. I have learned that schools are finding it more difficult to get help from the NCSE because,...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I look forward to summing up at the end.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It should get huge publicity.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is none, due to the situation with the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act.