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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Of at least one year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that point. It was the mention of six versus five years that I had a query about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for missing a small part of the beginning of the session. I have two or three different points to make. I will start with adult learners. NALA is making a very strong case. Adult learners have a history of being forgotten and we omit providing for them in the legislation at our peril. If literacy problems are not sorted out early, they will come back to bite us later on as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Mr. MacGabhann explain the six years?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Civil Registration (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It is great to hear that legislation will be introduced in 2013. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the persistence of Mrs Yvonne O'Reilly, her husband and children, from Galway in pursuing this matter. Mrs. O'Reilly whose first born child, a son, died abroad is a champion for many others in terms of seeking to have her son's death...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Why was that?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Civil Registration (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome and I greatly admire him, as he knows, but he is the wrong Minister for this topic. I wanted to ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the progress and the next steps to amending the Civil Registration Act to enable the registration of deaths of Irish people who die abroad. I have raised the topic with the Minister and, since then, she asked...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is going to start at university level.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister might tell me a little more about that because I am not fully sure about it. As with Senator Moran, I am concerned about clientelism. It exists in politics and, therefore, we cannot say it will be absent in education. I am also concerned about poor teaching but I hope the Teaching Council will get rid of that. Let me make one remark in support of parents. The Minister should...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. This is a useful debate because we are getting into the quality issues - the substantive issue of what education is about. We must ask what is the purpose of education. When I ask myself that question, the answer for me is to release in the child and student a hint of his or her own potential - just a hint. This is the spark where he or she says, "This is who I am...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That long ago?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are closer.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a start.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is an acknowledgement.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Nothing starts without first acknowledging the problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is no celebratory tone. This is about solving a problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The jealousy is unreal. I am disappointed.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is also a special case.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will spare a thought for the weekend's road fatalities and the affected families, but most especially for the two Gilmore infants who were tragically killed in Tuam, County Galway. We must compliment the Road Safety Authority on its work. It is coincidental that this weekend will see a road safety festival in Oranmore, where there will be a Guinness Book of Records attempt for the most...