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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The issue is now being addressed through the sectoral committees.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Today is a big day for Ireland. The Minister for Justice and Equality is presenting a report on our performance and delivery of human rights to the United Nations Council on Human Rights this morning. A live stream from the council is being broadcast in Buswells Hotel. Each UN member will question and raise issues with the Minister about Ireland's performance in various areas. I spent...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Springboard Initiative (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. At the outset, I wish to say how productive I found our meeting yesterday when the Minister briefed us. I am pleased he is a genuine listening Minister. I am now asking him to listen to this case also, which is an unusual one. The person concerned has been to see me a number of times and is at her wits' end. She can get similar programmes funded elsewhere...

Seanad: Springboard Initiative (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The dilemma is that the institution in question did not apply for the funding.

Seanad: Springboard Initiative (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will forward the case to the Minister so he can follow up on it. I would appreciate it if he would revert to me on it.

Seanad: Springboard Initiative (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is much appreciated.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what the Minister thinks.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is only one approach or aspect.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is only one aspect.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Driven by the Irish Independent.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was tremendous.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, to the House as quickly as possible for a question and answer session. The breadth of issues facing us in education is mind boggling. There is a huge need for clarity. Will continuous assessment be introduced for the junior certificate? We need a response on that. We have heard about the need for a...

Seanad: Address by President of the Irish Human Rights Commission (28 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is an absolute privilege for Members to have in the House the president of the Irish Human Rights Commission, Dr. Manning, who has provided them with a sense of both their history and their future. In so doing he has reawakened in me a sense of the value of this House, for which I thank him. He spoke about his openness to be accountable on the issue of human rights to both the Department...

Seanad: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall. I raise this matter to request the Minister for Health to fund residential treatment in the United Kingdom for a young woman with a severe borderline personality disorder who has been certified as being at imminent risk of suicide and who has already attempted suicide on 14 occasions. This is a severe and pressing case. It is the first time...

Seanad: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have a supplementary question. I imagine the family's reaction will be one of grave disappointment because my understanding is they are already availing of this treatment. Am I to understand from the Minister of State's response that the conditions attached to the scheme for travelling to the United Kingdom were not met because of the views of the treating consultant psychiatrist? I hope...

Seanad: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We can always come back to it. I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hundreds of newly qualified teachers are seeking an opportunity to complete the probation period to allow them to become fully qualified. This can be done in the course of one school year. However, posts are not available and the teachers in question are unable to do so. A way forward was found last December when the then Department of Education and Science issued a circular to all schools...