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- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We have.
- Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share two minutes with Senator Twomey.
- Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome everyone back to the House. I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, is present. It is good that he is in the health portfolio. He will not be surprised if I focus in particular on Galway and HSE west. He is aware that a serious high level meeting took place yesterday with the Western Regional Health Forum. The Health Service Executive says that cutbacks in the...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to take up several issues the Minister of State referred to earlier on the guidelines for county development plans. I agree it is important we protect flood plains as we saw the damage earlier this year, especially in Galway, when they were not. I am keen to talk about the happiness of our population. The Government and some Members are foolish in thinking that people's mental health...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes and I am speaking about local and county development plans. The Minister of State said we are putting people, flora and fauna together but all people are not the same. It is not always appropriate for people to live together. One size does not always fit all. I am concerned about the Government following a European model and imposing it on people in Ireland. Is the Government, in...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am keen to hear where in the plan it is provided that a person can get planning in rural Ireland if he or she does not have a connection to the area on work grounds.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Who believes in that?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is making an accusation by implication which he should address.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator did not make a great job of it in dealing with the water problem when he was mayor.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator did a terrible job.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It took a few years to do it.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: To what is the Minister of State referring?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Please remind me.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know to what Deputy Cuffe refers.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The people did not feel that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On this issue of substitute consent, I echo a number of concerns that have come to me from already legal, compliant small quarries in Galway, and I am sure this applies nationwide. I emphasise at the outset that the quarries to which I refer are already legal, compliant and with planning. They are not the ones that are illegal, which I completely accept are out of order and which the...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking to this set of amendments on quarries.