Results 2,681-2,700 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: EU Presidency: Statements, Questions and Answers (Resumed) (10 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will it include Ireland?
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I commend Senator Bacik on this Bill. It was well indicated on Second Stage last November that there was a broad welcome for the humanist right to confer marriages. Today is another step in that journey. I hope, with a bit of luck, we might finish the Bill today. It is a bright new future and a sign of a society that is more inclusive and more diverse and a recognition that everybody has...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: While I may not have mentioned it earlier, I should state officially that Fine Gael supports this Bill. As for some of the amendments under consideration, it is useful to have laid out the particular criteria in amendment No. 1 that could be drawn down by any other group in the future. That is helpful because it means Members will not be obliged to draw up another amendment subsequently....
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is important.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the point.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Bill should be there for others who may meet the criteria in the future.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I reject the comments broadcast across the media that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, was scaremongering by saying that budget 2013 will be tougher unless we get a "Yes" vote.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister was correct. Let us face it. We must start thinking with business heads.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We rely on investor confidence in this country. We are a small island on the west coast of Europe, we are an open economy and we rely on investment here. Voting "Yes" will provide stability and we will know that we can pay our bills in the future.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am on my feet.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Unless we have funding stability we are going to affect growth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are going to affect confidence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am. I presume that we are having a rolling debate on the stability treaty.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Certainly we need to give reasons for a "Yes" and "No" vote. If we think with business heads we will realise that a "No" vote will wreck confidence in our futures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A "No" vote will create uncertainty about everything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will say it again. Yes, we need a serious debate on the stability treaty and the reasons for a "Yes" or "No" vote. For me, a "Yes" vote will give certainty and stability and it is only then that business can transact with confidence.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will they have any choice if they choose not to?
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I acknowledge that it appears a thoughtful process is being planned around patronage. Will the Minister put a similar process in place for small rural schools to help them to examine their viability into the future? The Minister gave the number of people in the recent census who registered as having no religion but that does not mean they are unhappy with the Catholic ethos in the schools in...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 May 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I checked around the country and it was not an issue.