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- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the trolleys and the lack of beds?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about Deputy Brian Cowen, when he was Minister for Finance?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: One of the finest?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not of the way he managed the economy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We will also know the pain.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They are called gorse fires.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There are many mixed messages coming from the Government. It claims that we are on target and do not need an early budget, yet the Minister for Finance has given his Cabinet colleagues four weeks in which to find â¬3 billion in cuts. What is that, if not a budget? I am appalled. This week 1,000 parents of intellectually disabled young people in Galway received a letter from the Brothers...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have a request to make of the Leader. I am appalled that the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, know about this. Will the Leader assist me and the families of people with disabilities in asking the Minister and the Minister of State to roll back on these indiscriminate cuts, pull back from the moratorium in place in the disability...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That will doom it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the Government's responsibility.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We can help to shift people.
- Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome. It is my first time to address him in the House. It is interesting to note the number of speakers on this issue which shows how important the renegotiation of the CAP is to Ireland. At present we get â¬1.3 billion from Europe in single farm premia. That is a substantial amount of money which helps many people in this country. I was encouraged to...
- Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (12 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The suckler cow scheme has been cut. The Senator is talking to somebody who would know. The Government has let farming down and off-farm employment has also dried up. We need to support the family farm and keep the sector viable in Ireland to provide for a good quality food reputation. I look forward to the negotiations and I thank the Minister of State for participating in today's...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yesterday, we learned about the loss of 785 jobs in Pfizer and heard also that of all the locations throughout the world in which Pfizer operates, Ireland is its highest cost base. As I speak, every company in this country is facing the threat of remaining competitive. Why are we not playing to our strengths as a nation? Why are we not harnessing our natural resources? We have the second...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is an interesting opportunity to speak about women's participation in politics. I compliment Senator Ivana Bacik as the rapporteur on the report which I read some time ago. This debate is an opportunity for me to discuss why I got into politics, why I believe women's participation in politics is important, the barriers they face and, perhaps, some ways to address them. I got into...
- Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----I made a decision to resign my teaching post and set up a business to be able to commit myself to politics. Previously, I had been travelling three hours a day from Galway to my place of work in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. My constituency was Galway West, spanning west from my home in Oranmore, right through the city to Connemara and the islands. I knew I could not continue...