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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is more than just the banking figures.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like all the other budgets.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Members learned today that up to €15 billion in adjustments will be needed over the next four budgets - double the hole, double the pain. When will it stop? Where is the outrage? I second the amendment to the Order of Business tabled by Senator Fitzgerald. I again ask the Leader how long was the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, aware of this because it was not just yesterday....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, it would because-----

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----there is no confidence in the Government and no good news is coming out from Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The second issue I wish to raise with the Leader is the extent to which the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills is out of touch with the scale of unemployment among young teachers. I am shocked and galled that of 400 graduates from one of our teacher training colleges this year, only 30 are employed. The Tánaiste does not even need the public finances to be rectified to fix the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It should for the country, not for me.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that not just cute hoorism?

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To sum up in regard to the VEC issue, we are very disappointed. It is clear no thought went into it and it is a half-baked approach to restructuring. Listening to how it was managed, it seems as if the Department just added up the money to ensure every VEC cost approximately €50 million to run. That is very disappointing because this should be about an education service. I appeal to the...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The matter I have tabled refers to school chairs. While this might seem trivial, I have some good news in that it will not cost a penny but will save many people's backs from future pain. Is the Department of Health and Children aware of the long-term damage to children's backs and overall posture caused by backward-sloping school chairs that are used as standard practice in all Irish...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who informs the standard, IS EN 1729, to which the Minister of State refers? Does it relate to sloping chairs? If so, how can we change the practice that obtains?

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate that, especially in the context of preventing damage to children's backs.

Seanad: Restructuring of Vocational Education Committees: Statements (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. While this proposal is interesting, I wish to tease it out a little. My understanding at the outset is that the Minister of State is pursuing the €3 million in savings proposed by Professor McCarthy in the report by an bord snip nua. My proposal to the Minister of State is that this money can be saved without mergers in most cases and that,...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment. I welcome the Minister. I listened with interest to the words of Senator Corrigan, who is always very helpful in the area of disability. Let us consider the issue of disability as being broader than simply the need for a personal advocacy service. I concur with Senator Buttimer to some extent that the need for a personal advocacy service will tell us how dependent...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister can discuss it with the Minister for Health and Children and work it out.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The forthcoming budget and the thought of more cuts is certainly focusing people's minds. How will the Government help people to keep their homes if it continues to cut away at their ability to repay? We can say there should be 20% more cuts in the public service. We know that 200,000 jobs have been lost in the private sector since this recession took hold. What real solutions will the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Senator explain that?

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They do and they are willing.

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It has been nice listening to people and I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Kelleher, has returned to the House. I am encouraged by the level of belief he has in the smart economy and where he sees it in the country's future and for his children. I come from a similar place and I want to touch on a few items. I want to touch on creativity as being the biggest loser and the...

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what the bond markets have said though.