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- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be helpful for the Deputy Leader to ask the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, to come to the House to give a statement on the schools building fund list announced on Monday. People in many schools are upset, angry and frustrated. They do not know why they were not granted funding when there was an expectation that they would, and they do not know why others were...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How would one deal with that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's party did nothing when it was on this side of the House.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That has nothing to do with the European Union.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is great that so much time is being given to this debate today. I will make a few points in favour of why I believe we need to vote "Yes" for the stability pact. I also want to examine the points that will come up in the "No" campaign, and how they do not really stand up. My views are framed against the backdrop of Commissioner Olli Rehn's comments yesterday, the timing of which was not...
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Am I finished?
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to make one other point. The treaty's fiscal discipline is designed to prevent another crisis like the current one. Once we reach the target deficit levels of the treaty, we will no longer be able to build up an unsustainable deficit like the current one. Would we not have wished for someone to put a brake on us in 2005 and 2006? It was tried with the Bacon report in 2001 but...
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish on this point. Along came the Government and it heated up the market again with more tax breaks. There needs to be discipline when we cannot rely on a government to impose discipline and to regulate. Unity among eurozone countries is required now to save the euro. We have to play our best hand but we must also contribute to the European economy.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There are reasons, past and current.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was going to say good morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to address an issue to the Minister for Justice and Equality on the fairness and proportionality of sentences handed down in recent days. The courage of Lorraine Mulvey, the 41 year old woman who has spoken out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, has been mentioned. She was sexually abused and raped over a 12 year period. For that crime a sentence of six years...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The public is going mad, and rightly so. Questions have been raised that must be put to the Minister for Justice and Equality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are we saying these crimes are equal?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are the sentences handed down in proportion to the crimes committed?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. These matters have been decided.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They are in the public domain.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish with one sentence. I am asking for the Minister for Justice and Equality to be brought to the House to comment-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----on whether there is fairness in the judgments.