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

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are all elected Ministers.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is welcome. This is one of the most positive moves we have had for a good while in terms of helping SMEs. The Bill will help small businesses across the country to access credit and create jobs. Let us face it, the pillar banks have let down SMEs. Despite the fact they have been capitalised with that purpose in mind, we know there is not enough evidence of them doing it....

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am referring to a colleague in the House.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. I would like to see Sinn Féin being positive when it comes to trying to invest in the economy and SMEs. I am somewhat outraged because, truly, we need to look at every measure that will help our SMEs continue, as Senator Harte said, to be the lifeblood of our economy. I recently did an interview on this Bill in Galway and it was met with a lot of positivity. There are...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a good thing we do not need money for that.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They make their own cheese, etc.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is correct.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will a business be able to get loans from both?

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He knows on what side his bread is buttered.

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the banks come to the Seanad Chamber or the AV room?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have been rather stunned to read in The Irish Times of the cases of children and young people who died in State care of non-natural causes between 2000 and 2010. A 12 year old girl died in 2008, a 15 year old girl died in 2000, a 16 year old boy died in 2003, a baby girl died in 2008, a 17 month old boy died in 2003, an 18 year old died in 2002 and a 17 year old male died in 2009. These...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The setting up of a constitutional convention is a wise and sensible move by the Government, and discussion of Seanad reform should form part of this. Before there is any referendum on the existence of this House - one of the houses of democracy in this country - there needs to be a thorough study and consultation with the people of Ireland about what that means. I do not need to vote on it...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are laughing at where it is coming from.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Their mess is still with us.

Seanad: UNESCO Convention Ratification (19 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I, too, welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for taking this matter which calls on the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to ratify the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1970. I believe Ireland should ratify this convention which deals with the illicit import,...

Seanad: UNESCO Convention Ratification (19 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted this is on the agenda of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and there is a plan to ratify the UNESCO convention in early 2013. The Minister of State mentioned that the Commission had launched a public consultation on this convention. Was notification received in Ireland and is the Minister of State aware of any Irish responses to it?

Seanad: UNESCO Convention Ratification (19 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State. On a point of order, I wish to clarify that Committee Stage of the Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012 should have been ordered for Thursday, rather than for next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what Fianna Fáil did when it was in government. It propagated misinformation.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He did.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Given the withdrawn ESRI report, if would be helpful if the Leader asked the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, to attend the House urgently to clarify the facts about social welfare entitlements. This issue needs to be resolved quickly. Many concerns are being raised nationally, but we want to ensure our social welfare rates encourage work. I must express my outrage at a third...