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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I used to live there.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am delighted to have her hear to listen to this case, about which she has heard from me in the corridors of this House, on the telephone and in letters. I ask Deputy O'Sullivan, as Minister of State with special responsibility for housing in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, to specify where responsibility lies...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Has the council given that commitment to the Minister of State?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a matter of definition.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How many political appointments did Fianna Fáil make?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand Senator MacSharry's concern for people with disabilities in the context of the mobility allowance and the motorised grant. However, I reassure him that the money will be ring-fenced. We had a clear breach of the Equal Status Act here and that is why the Government had to act. There are times when we must heed the Ombudsman and this is one of them. It is very important for...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The party has some good ideas.

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is called "Equality".

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am mentioning it now. We must learn from that and do it correctly. By leaving child benefit as a stand-alone office in Letterkenny, is this transactional service not a waste of time that could be moved through the taxation system? I am not saying these people in Letterkenny should not have jobs or be in the system, but they would be better deployed in places like MABS and community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for missing some of the presentation. I was in the Seanad contributing to the debate on child benefit. My contact with this topic is Connemara. While I live east of Galway, where there is a very different type of farming from the area to the west, I come in contact with this issue very often. My assessment is that many rules on destocking and care for the environment have...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome to the House. I thank her for bringing the report before us as we have been awaiting it for some time. The debate about child benefit is an important one. For a long time the payment has gone specifically to the mother for the benefit of children. The question we face is if we should continue with it as it is, where everyone gets the same amount, or should we...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This vulture will not catch the Minister.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Mr. Coughlan and Ms Gallagher for their presentations. I agree with Mr. Coughlan that entrepreneurs get this because social entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs with social goals. However, the enterprise boards do not get it. I have approached them in regard to a social enterprise. They continue to see enterprise as they always did. Would Mr. Coughlan be willing to brief them? So...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it just a module in current courses?

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the three witnesses for attending and for being so inspirational. I agree with Mr. O'Hara about the whole curriculum development process. We need to consider what we need for our young people for the future besides just piling stuff on top of what is already there. I was very impressed with what he had to say about JUMP math. I presume the Canadian teacher trainers will come to...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Chairman for hosting this session. I welcome the representatives from One Foundation, Ashoka Ireland and Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. Last spring I was present at Farmleigh and met representatives from Ashoka Ireland and the Change Nation process. I was blown away by what they were setting out to do in Ireland and by the potential this has in the context of bringing to this...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand that. However, Ms Mortell from One Foundation has acknowledged-----

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was about to ask a question and I again thank the Chairman for hosting this event. I am conscious that One Foundation will be closing its doors at the end of the year. That is a matter of concern. Will there be time for those with projects that would meet its criteria to present to One Foundation? I refer, in particular, to projects which involve young people and creativity and which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is my first time attending this committee and I deliberately came because of Mr. Trethowan's presence. I had an experience last year with a company that exhausted itself trying to get a loan from the bank. I strongly recommended that it go to the Credit Review Office but it would not because it was so exhausted. This company had an offer of orders worth €7 million. It needed...