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- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a very unfair comment.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: You bailed out the banks.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: You bailed out the banks and you did not tell the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: You did not tell us the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is Fianna Fáil's problem.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have two requests for the Leader. I would like an urgent debate on the need to save Galway Airport for one reason, namely, thousands of jobs are at stake. Some 82% of local and multinational businesses in Galway and in region stated that Galway Airport is essential for connectivity to international markets for our exports, which is what is needed for the economy. Exports are the shot in...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Why exactly is the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, so keen to protect the bondholders? Has a deal been done on our corporation tax rates? Is that really what this is about? Bondholders are the biggest risk takers there are. Why have we not at best negotiated with them?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are beholden to everyone except our own. There was no sovereign responsibility to the bondholders. Our sovereignty is now on the line and we must protect it. What I am asking for a little bit of honesty. I request the Leader to ask the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to address those questions. I second the amendment to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It was down to the Minister for Transport.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That will not bring certainty to the markets.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the Government's only way of staying there, its only way of surviving.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is defaulting on citizens.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, the Cathaoirleach indicated to me that I would be given a chance to speak.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Why were they not removed sooner?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And Galway.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What a joke.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Who is in charge?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are a proud and resilient people with a history of oppression. The most common question I have been asked throughout the summer, and especially in recent days, is "Are we getting there?". People want to know how we are faring as a nation. Have the cuts and austerity measures paid off? Has all the money we have given to the banks made a difference? I fear we are losing the war. That...