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- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I too welcome Lord Saville's report. Thirty-eight years is a long time to wait for justice but, thankfully, the victims and the families feel that justice has been done. Everything is connected, as Senator Harris said, but the moment yesterday when people felt vindicated in their great loss was needed. What I considered most striking was the merit and bravery of the new Prime Minister, Mr....
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was particularly struck by the grandparents and parents of young graduates whom I met last week when the Seanad did not sit. There are three graduates in one family, highly qualified solicitors and psychologists, with no hope. They are in pain and are now seeking passports to travel. I ask the Leader to ask the Ministers, Deputy Mary Coughlan and Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to present...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: After incredible lobbying.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to share four minutes with Senator O'Reilly and four minutesââ
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is agreed on the basis that I can get my full time.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it four minutes each?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have no confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If I lose my time this way it is unfair.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, is a decent man but I see a man who is uninspired and weighed down because he never expected this to happen. He is a man who ran the economy into the ground as Minister for Finance and made bad decisions, and he is weighed down psychologically by those decisions. I like the framework produced by the NESF. A Chathaoirligh, there is too much noise in the Chamber.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: To get us out of this crisis we must examine the solutions on a number of fronts.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I feel I am being interrupted.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not so sure about that.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leaderââ
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What we need is a vision and a solution and I do not see either. I see just one prong of a solution, that is, the banking solution. If we look at what has been advised, we will see that we need solutions on the banking front, the fiscal and budget deficit front, the economic front in terms of jobs and competitiveness, on a reputational front and with regard to the social crisis. On the...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Policy was based on the one-horse economy of construction which led inevitably to a collapse in tax revenues.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach, when Minister for Finance, should have been adequately experienced to identify the signs of economic collapses that have been presented in the reports. However, he failed spectacularly as Minister for Finance and was negligent in his duty. Unfortunately, he still fails to inspire. I wish him well and hope he can make changes for the best.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Stick to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Very soon we will have the publication of a report on third level education by Colin Hunt yet in this Chamber we have not yet had a debate on our vision for third level education. We should debate that issue before Colin Hunt deliberates. In this morning's Irish Independent there is an article about four Dublin colleges considering a merger. That may be a welcome development but a debate...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Education must form part of that infrastructure and it is dangerous to hand over that big area of importance to this country to the likes of Colin Hunt without Members of this House, who are from every part of the country, having our say on our vision for third level education. I look to the Leader to come forward with that debate once and for all.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Today's edition of The Irish Times carries a very serious report about the return of third level fees in the Colin Hunt report. Senators will remember that the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, appointed Dr. Colin Hunt to carry out a long-term strategy report on third level education. Last week I again asked the Leader for a debate on the future of third level education. What is our vision...