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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And less cost to the Exchequer.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I concur with Senator Bacik regarding the danger of the severe cuts to resource teachers for Traveller children. These cuts will not only affect Traveller children; they will affect all our children. Travellers are particularly at risk of early school leaving. Last autumn this House completed an Oireachtas report on preventing early school leaving which heard from many parts of society and...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The poor state of the public finances and the harsh austerity measures being imposed on us are dictating the quality of our lives and services. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, is doing an incredible job for us in Europe to try to claw back some sense of decency for us as a country and to get the best terms possible to deal with the financial situation we have inherited. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I seek a debate on the matter. We are in a tough financial state. How can we protect children in classrooms with disabilities and learning difficulties while doing the same thing? We are in difficulty and we must look at other models of doing that while keeping children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. It is time we looked at new ways. I visited the united Kingdom last year...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. I saw another way to achieve the same outcomes. It is time we looked at that in this House because we must find other ways to achieve the same outcomes.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Wow.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is life through Fianna Fáil eyes.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The mechanism is too slow.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Minister Leyden.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should look at the example set by the previous Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator David Norris in his call for the renaming of Terminal 2 as James Joyce International Airport. It would be an appropriate recognition of Dublin's status as a UNESCO city of literature. I wish to raise a serious matter, on which I seek the support of the House. What does the country need to do to grow out of recession? The answer is jobs, export-led business and thriving...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for setting aside time tomorrow in order that we all can express condolences to the Lenihan family on the untimely passing of former Minister, Brian Lenihan. That is opportune and I will reserve my comments until then. I understand we will have the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill in the House in the next week or so. I have been offered the great task by our leader to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was in the Senator's party's budget last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be remiss of me not to mention Galway Airport. I am grateful that the Cabinet has made a decision to fund the airport for this year but it provides us with a major challenge because to attract new airlines one must offer a three-year contract. I accept what was said about creative solutions. I listened carefully to what Senator Feargal Quinn said, that Galway Airport could be on...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is a commitment in the programme for Government that we look at the electoral system as a whole not just Seanad reform. I accept that Seanad reform is important but in and of itself it is just an easy target. It will not solve any of the problems of this country. The debate should begin on the electoral system as a whole. Will the Leader consider a rolling debate, be it one day a...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask for two debates in the House. One relates to information in the newspapers today indicating that we are likely to have the lowest number of students in a long time taking honours maths this year. What concerns me most is that Project Maths, which is being rolled out in pilot schools now, will have a very low take-up. The Minister for Education and Skills must ask why, as Project...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Under the terms of the public private partnership for the convention centre, we will pay €3.7 million for the next two years and a further €2 million per year for 20 years after that. Is it not the case that the State is taking up the slack from both ends?