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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am proud of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I met them this morning in Buswells Hotel and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Any of these people could have been our sisters, mothers or daughters. This is highly significant and I wish to put as much on the record. I was flabbergasted today by a story in The Irish Times that our pillar banks could consider writing off some of the ¤400 million debt of Independent News & Media, the largest newspaper group with popular titles such as the Sunday Independent and...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We saw before that they used our State funds to pay off their bankers with their pensions.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach had to intervene. We need an answer and I believe the House should join me in requesting it.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sórt náire orm nach bhfuil nuacht níos fearr ag an Aire Stáit dom sa chás seo. I already knew everything the Minister of State has told me. I know about the high birth rate between 2007 and 2013. The school in question has experienced 100% growth in attendance. I will make a final point and ask a final question. I appreciate that the Minister of State is speaking on behalf of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sé sin go maith, ar aon nós.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sórt náire orm nach bhfuil nuacht níos fearr ag an Aire Stáit dom sa chás seo. I already knew everything the Minister of State has told me. I know about the high birth rate between 2007 and 2013. The school in question has experienced 100% growth in attendance. I will make a final point and ask a final question. I appreciate that the Minister of State is speaking on behalf of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sé sin go maith, ar aon nós.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was hoping the Minister for Education would be able to be here, but I know he has been detained for the sake of the Magdalen apology in the Dáil. The story I will bring to the attention of the Minister of State is one I expect he will hear a lot more about and I believe it is a national story. It is a national disgrace to leave the children...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was hoping the Minister for Education would be able to be here, but I know he has been detained for the sake of the Magdalen apology in the Dáil. The story I will bring to the attention of the Minister of State is one I expect he will hear a lot more about and I believe it is a national story. It is a national disgrace to leave the children...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sórt náire orm nach bhfuil nuacht níos fearr ag an Aire Stáit dom sa chás seo. I already knew everything the Minister of State has told me. I know about the high birth rate between 2007 and 2013. The school in question has experienced 100% growth in attendance. I will make a final point and ask a final question. I appreciate that the Minister of State is speaking on behalf of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sé sin go maith, ar aon nós.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sórt náire orm nach bhfuil nuacht níos fearr ag an Aire Stáit dom sa chás seo. I already knew everything the Minister of State has told me. I know about the high birth rate between 2007 and 2013. The school in question has experienced 100% growth in attendance. I will make a final point and ask a final question. I appreciate that the Minister of State is speaking on behalf of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá sé sin go maith, ar aon nós.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are active.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like others, I will wait to hear the announcement this afternoon on the Magdalen laundries. I hope we bring finality and that justice will be done in a way that is meaningful and fitting for the servitude in which these women, girls and children were placed for decades. I thank the Leader and the Seanad Public Consultation Committee for arranging the public consultation that will take place...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand from the Garda this is a criminal offence which could result in individuals being placed on the sexual offenders list.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The behaviour of some of our young people is inappropriate. I ask the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to discuss the issue of dangerous and inappropriate online behaviour. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Digital Literacy: Discussion (13 Feb 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the fact that online privacy will form part of the new programmes. This is important. Although we discuss the issue with our children, they do not fully understand it. The issue is overlooked. Cyberbullying creates a terrible environment. Teacher education is undoubtedly the key in this regard, just as it is in fixing problems. Witnesses are picking up the frustration that...