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Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State and the Senator, but if they would not mind, I would like the former's attention.

Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do mind, actually, as I have the floor.

Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This Bill is about enabling the right to housing, particularly at the average price in Dublin. That would be the maximum loan amount, with people being helped into the market at no higher than that level. At the root of the Bill is a social good and fairness and we need to consider it seriously. I was disappointed by the response of the Minister of State, Deputy English. He stated that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Ombudsman for Children and his staff. I was touched by Deputy Jim Daly's presentation. My background is in primary and teacher education and I have always been intrigued by the fact that teachers are paid by the Department of Education and Skills but hired by boards of management. Until we change the legislative structure underpinning that, we will not solve any of the issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I hear what the Chairman is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question is whether the Ombudsman for Children is in a position to support parents in that area. In a similar vein, we have heard of cases where children have been misdiagnosed by a teacher or psychologist attaching to a school as being autistic when, in fact, they may more accurately be described as suffering a syndrome that is not yet named. Does Dr. Muldoon have any role in supporting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It does, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: These things are distributed in schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question is relevant to a schools setting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is about schools telling parents that their children look as though they are on the autistic spectrum when, in fact, it appears that there is a new syndrome emerging among a large body of children that has not yet been named. Therefore, they are saying one thing that it is not likely to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The number one concern is misdiagnosis, and then, of course, there are a load of concerns around a misdiagnosis. If one gives a misdiagnosis and does not understand what is fundamentally wrong with the way the child is processing - Mr. Walsh knows what I mean.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Appropriate supports, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am grateful to say that Mr. Walsh would have a role in this area. I am referring to an emerging pattern whereby quite a number of parents feel this misdiagnosis is being made and therefore the child is not being understood in the first place. Second, they cannot access the appropriate supports because they are being given supports for the wrong issue. Does Mr. Walsh know what I mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They do not have those powers when it comes down to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This has been a good conversation. The Chairman said Dr. Muldoon's role needs to be somewhere between democratic and making people accountable. I take his point that he does not want a court-based approach. This is about helping the child, and the child will lose too much time in resolving an issue that affects his or her life if there is a court-based approach which could take years....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Remit of Ombudsman for Children in School Complaints: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Dr. Muldoon is saying to us that we can change it.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On the Northern Ireland issue, cool heads are needed now and people will decide the fate of Sinn Féin. However, regardless of the outcome for Sinn Féin, the nation needs peace above everything else. The whole situation needs to be stabilised. I would support having a debate on Northern Ireland. Two other debates mentioned last week are very important. I have been out...