Results 2,561-2,580 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The rate at which the shortfall is increasing is stunning. The shortfall is predicted to reach €3 billion by 2019 and €25.7 billion by 2066. Is there a chance that gardaí, nurses, doctors and so on who retire in ten years' time will find that, having paid their contributions, no pension exists?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have been doing that for five years. It is terrible that one cannot get the truth.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know the school will be disappointed with the answer. I must make one clarification; we are not talking about an extension but a totally new school building. The core question remains as to why neighbouring schools were advanced to the band rating 1.1 when the rate of growth in some of them was not as big as that in Clarinbridge national school, yet it has been left behind. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Tánaiste to the meeting. I heard what he said in response to Senator Kathryn Reilly's question about the debt. People are saying to me, and I myself feel, that Ireland is fed up being told we are the best boy in the class and that we are ticking all the right boxes for the troika while getting no reward for that. Our only reward is the imposition of property tax, water...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Shane McEntee, to the House. The matter I wish to raise concerns the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to review the band rating for the proposed new accommodation for Scoil Mhuire primary school, Clarinbridge, County Galway, consistent with prior agreement given in 2007. Five of the local primary schools were classified at the time as...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome all of my colleagues back to the House and also welcome the beginning of a session during which we can make a major difference to many people's lives in this country. I am referring to the forthcoming referendum on children's rights. Right now there are 1,500 children who have been in care for more than five years. Children of married parents who are in care for various reasons,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it at second level that the Minister envisages this change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not understand where the saving will be. While I understand it for second level, given the extra subjects, I would like to have clarification with regard to primary level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It needs to be clarified because it is out there at present as a kind of a throwaway statement without any substance to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is fairly optional. That is not the way to make a regulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Minister address the issue of the pay of third level lecturers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What does the Minister mean by basic pay is 72%? Does he mean that basic pay is 72% before increments and allowances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That could not be absolute across all primary school teachers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We can move on to them later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It happens all of the time and the scheme is not working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister and I appreciate his array of slides which have proved helpful. They support the case that he has made for a long time about the increase in student numbers. He has a strong case because he has 95,000 whole-time equivalent staff in the system and in 2013 there will be 1,235 extra staff needed at primary and second level and more than 4,000 extra students at third...

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I speak on behalf of Senator Michael D'Arcy in his absence. Having listened to survivors and read their e-mails and other correspondence, I ask the Minister if there is room for those who did not avail of the redress scheme on time to apply now. They also have suffered pain. There are many reasons for their failure to apply. One reason could be a lack of confidence, empowerment, knowledge...

Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister referred to 15,000 potential beneficiaries. Will he comment on whether the money from the fund will be apportioned equally among these people? Senator Norris stated that 15,000 is a huge figure and Senator Power indicated that the number of those considered ineligible is a small, but significant, proportion of this. The past 20 years have been marked by those who have been...