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Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what we want.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who is in Government?

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Of course it does.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We should get it back off him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister allowed it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There has been good news about the weather.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The weather has been phenomenal recently which has helped to lift morale. However, we need to be careful-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----that we stay in touch with the realities of people's lives. Many are experiencing difficulty owing to an inability to collect bad debts. A group of small and medium businesses in Galway indicated it was the single biggest issue facing its members. Subcontractors, in particular, are affected. All Members have probably received a letter from Mr. Seán Gallagher from "Dragon's Den"-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Subcontractors are badly affected. The be-all and end-all is that they have little protection, if any, in law. I really want us to have-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----an urgent debate in which we would invite the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to consider the supports and protection that could be provided in law to help people collect money they are due for goods and services they have supplied. I have a letter from a person who received money from the Department of Education and Science for work done on a school building. The goods...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is up to the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is against them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How did the Senator feel about Neary?

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is formal.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government allows those salaries to be paid.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is right. Deputy Bertie Ahern created the environment.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am encouraged by the calls today for the need for justice and fairness for every citizen and for ethics in corporate governance. Many Members have voiced the stress of the ordinary people who are concerned about their mortgage repayments and that they will lose their homes, who cannot get credit for their businesses and who are saddled with debt. We need, as Senator Harris said, the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is exactly our problem.