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Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to speak because I have two or three points to make.

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am trying to say that the difficulties in question would not have needed to develop if the right governance, the right controls and the right monitoring had been provided for. I am talking about the Leader company that messed up. If the Minister decides to continue with the process of merging Leader into the councils, he needs to bear in mind that such a big change cannot be delivered...

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not fair. Give the man a chance. Come on. That is out of order.

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is ridiculous. We are trying to fix things here.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome everybody back for the new year. I would like the Leader to invite the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House. He has many portfolios but we need his wisdom on what happened yesterday in respect of his justice portfolio. I refer to what justice, when tested, means for victims, including women and children. Why is the conviction rate for rape and child abuse in Ireland as...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Fianna Fáil did it. That is why we are where we are.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is why we need a debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis: Discussion (17 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can Mr. Cosgrave be sector-specific? He mentioned education, but a very high percentage of this race are educated. He then said that we must create a demand, but entrepreneurs know how to create jobs. How did he create jobs in his sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis: Discussion (17 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish a happy new year to the Chairman and fellow members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis: Discussion (17 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a pleasure to meet and hear from Mr. Cosgrave. I am aware that he had a role in the setting up of the undergraduate awards programme. I congratulate him on that. It had not received much publicity for a good while and now many more know about it but I had heard about it. Mr. Cosgrave stated he knew how to create a job. I was particularly struck by that. He might tell us a little...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was the question with regard to the claim on the National Women's Council website that the high-profile case in Galway was proof of an urgent need to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the claim of it being proof of an urgent need for legislation for the X case. Why has the council put that in when there is no evidence of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A young woman or any woman who gets pregnant lives in a family. She is in a relationship. She may be under pressure to have an abortion. We have heard this evidence from other witnesses here today. There is the regret after the abortion, and she may end up feeling suicidal as a result.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We do not know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. I agree with Choice Ireland on several points such as how dangerous the back-street clinics are for women and the pills that are not regulated that should be outlawed. However, what struck me today following three days of hearings is the danger of making decisions about legislating for X on the grounds of suicide in the narrow medical context only. It is absolutely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----is proof of the need for legislation to give effect to the X case. The council has no evidence for that. That is a very dangerous claim, one that is adding panic to this debate unnecessarily. We must deal with this debate in a logical and calm way because this is about deciding our future. This claim is also about promoting the council's own agenda. Will Ms O'Connor address this? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not get an answer to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to ask Dr. Ó Domhnaill to answer my question with regard to assisting the 19 year old suicidal woman he spoke about in his evidence to this hearing. What type of framework is he recommending that we put in place so we can best provide for that suicidal woman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. There has been a missing voice in these hearings – the direct voice of the pregnant woman in crisis who has to face a real human dilemma. So far, we only have had secondary evidence. For that reason, I am very grateful to Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill and Ms Breda O'Brien for going there as far as they can. Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill described assisting a...