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Seanad: Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They should.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (12 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome this useful Bill. Contrary to what others believe, I like to see the public engaged in discussions on electoral reform and that a random panel of 66 citizens will participate in the constitutional convention. It is a historic development, as well as a good one for Irish democracy. I respect we have a parliamentary democracy, but given the fact parliamentary representatives will...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Any inquiry by the Committee of Public Accounts or the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform that cannot establish facts and culpability is useless. The Irish people have paid the price for the terrible negligence and behaviour of people who did their jobs and did not do their jobs in respect of the bank guarantee. We owe it to the Irish people to establish facts and...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There must be adequate security procedures at all concerts, with entrants searched not only for drink and drugs but also, where necessary, refused entry if they are already clearly intoxicated. The first person who overdosed at the concert at the weekend got into difficulty early in the evening, at 7 p.m. We need to quit talking about this problem and instead agree to address it in a...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a dangerous attitude.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I respectfully disagree with Senator Bacik that there is no evidence to support the contention that those who have had an abortion do not experience emotional and mental effects in the long term. Certainly abortion may appear like a solution in the short term. This depends on who one speaks to and the group that carried out the research. Not everyone holds the view that it has no effects....

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This Bill is significant in the history of the language, our State and country. The purpose of the Bill is to save the language. I hope there is agreement across the House on that. It is not just to save údarás elections. If údarás elections were to save the language, then clearly they have failed because the number of Irish speakers in the...

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Democracy does not necessary save the language.

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Democracy does not save the language.

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The people in the Gaeltacht areas are represented by councillors elected in local elections and by Members in both Houses of the Oireachtas, the Dáil and the Seanad. They also have a European vote. We have to say this clearly.

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are discussing the Gaeltacht versus the State.

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time we look at everything and ask whether what we are doing will serve or make a difference.

Seanad: Gaeltacht Bill 2012: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will it make a difference in terms of saving the language? An examination of the evidence on údarás would be damning. Údarás has not been a failure by any means but its elections have not made a difference to saving the language.

Seanad: European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State, Deputy Costello, is very welcome. It is nice to see him in the House. I especially welcome him as a former Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs. It is interesting that we are debating the European Communities (Amendment) Bill. We in this House live through history. We have seen a lot happen in a few years. Since I came to the House we...

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is welcome. He gives much of his time in this House, which we appreciate. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the ESM, and during the course of the treaty referendum campaign it was the key selling point of the treaty, even for me. It is another piece of the puzzle in stabilising our currency and the Irish and eurozone economies in order that we can get on...

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that but how is this provision healthy? There is no point in us looking back in ten years and asking how we let that pass us by. The Minister of State might comment on it. Senator D'Arcy touched on the next issue. Will the ESM will get a banking licence and will it have an independent regulator? These are the questions for here and now. Others have referred to the bigger...

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is better to charge interest than have a bad debt.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The next great idea.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Did Senator Cullinane leave to read the children's book?