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- Seanad: Gender-Based Violence: Motion (26 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of Order, I would like to put forward - - - - -
- Seanad: Gender-Based Violence: Motion (26 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is highly regrettable that this is being put to a vote
- Seanad: Gender-Based Violence: Motion (26 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I may be out of order but I want it said and noted that I am very disappointed that we have not achieved agreement in this House.
- Seanad: Literacy Levels (26 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well with his exciting portfolio. This matter relates to a literacy intervention or initiative - the Saturday literacy hour - for reluctant readers and writers for which I am responsible. The Saturday literacy hour takes the form of an eight-week course for children between the ages of six and eight who are in first and second class and who are...
- Seanad: Literacy Levels (26 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State and he is correct that it is a community-based initiative centred on lateral thinking. The library is fundamental to it and the very enthusiastic librarian there has been wonderful. I take the Minister of State's point that it is a matter for the Teaching Council and that the inspector is coming to visit at some stage in November. What is the link between the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Darragh O'Brien should put his questions through the Chair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We can say what we like about the two referenda but certainly I agree the media has focused too much on the presidential election to the detriment of coverage of the two referenda, and this must be taken into account.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have done much campaigning for the referenda and in the presidential election in recent weeks-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have learned much, including that this House needs to pursue solutions for genuine issues bothering and affecting people's lives at present. One of these is mortgages, which I am delighted we will debate this afternoon. Another is the serious issue of unemployment. Almost half of the total number unemployed, or 185,000 people, have been out of work for more than one year and are now...
- Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome. I thank him for a strong and sound speech. I am delighted he has acknowledged that the Keane report is just a starting point. Everything that is being done by the Minister of State, the Minister for Finance and their Government colleagues in response to this problem will define how an entire generation views politics. That is it in a nutshell. I...
- Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It also shows the public that the bank is taking some responsibility for helping with the restructuring and maintaining the ownership. I will finish by asking a final question. How will the Government deal with foreign banks based here, such as Ulster Bank, that have Irish clients?
- Seanad: Diabetes Services (19 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome Minister of State. The issue I wish to raise follows quite nicely from the previous debate because it is with regard to the provision of diabetic pumps and the appropriate backup staff for children with type 1 diabetes in County Galway. Approximately 3,000 children and adolescents in Ireland have diabetes, and approximately 850 of them live in the HSE west area of which 200 to 250...
- Seanad: Diabetes Services (19 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted by the final comment of the Minister of State. Everything the Minister of State said is what I said. She reiterated the story and, by and large, she accepts that there is a strong case for what we have said. When will the working group deliberate? What is the timeframe for the group to decide which measure to take? The Minister of State said that a clinician has been...
- Seanad: Diabetes Services (19 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: When will it be delivered?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Less than a month ago, on 21 September, Aviva issued this statement: "Aviva is committed to Ireland, where we have had a business for over 100 years." Today, we find out that 950 employees are to be let go. Quite a number of those employees work in Knocknacarra, Galway. I would like the company to think of its employees and their families. Aviva still wants the people to buy insurance...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Was it the acting President?
- Seanad: Nursing Home Services (13 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share time with Senator Michael Mullins. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. This is a straightforward case of asking the Minister for Health to outline why the relocation of a nursing home in order to meet HIQA standards should be classified as a start-up case or a new build and not as a current operation. The nursing home has been in operation since October...
- Seanad: Nursing Home Services (13 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that, but the Minister of State's reply gave no answer to the issue.
- Seanad: Nursing Home Services (13 Oct 2011)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that. Were I running Pointe Boise Nursing Home in Salthill and I moved my operation to Pointe Boise on St. Mary's grounds, I would have a legal case to ask to be classified as an ongoing operation as opposed to a start-up or new build. The Minister of State has acknowledged that what the home is prepared to provide is necessary. It seems like an open and shut case. Will the...