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Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to share four minutes with Senator O'Reilly and four minutes——

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is agreed on the basis that I can get my full time.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it four minutes each?

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have no confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If I lose my time this way it is unfair.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, is a decent man but I see a man who is uninspired and weighed down because he never expected this to happen. He is a man who ran the economy into the ground as Minister for Finance and made bad decisions, and he is weighed down psychologically by those decisions. I like the framework produced by the NESF. A Chathaoirligh, there is too much noise in the Chamber.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To get us out of this crisis we must examine the solutions on a number of fronts.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I feel I am being interrupted.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not so sure about that.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I too welcome Lord Saville's report. Thirty-eight years is a long time to wait for justice but, thankfully, the victims and the families feel that justice has been done. Everything is connected, as Senator Harris said, but the moment yesterday when people felt vindicated in their great loss was needed. What I considered most striking was the merit and bravery of the new Prime Minister, Mr....

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I was particularly struck by the grandparents and parents of young graduates whom I met last week when the Seanad did not sit. There are three graduates in one family, highly qualified solicitors and psychologists, with no hope. They are in pain and are now seeking passports to travel. I ask the Leader to ask the Ministers, Deputy Mary Coughlan and Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to present...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the reports on the banking crisis. Why would we overly blame the Department of Finance for the lack of judgment shown by the Taoiseach when he was Minister for Finance? I welcome the fact that a debate will take place this evening when we will hear more about the issue. Let us not practice evasion to a fault. I express my outrage at the baby scan debacle. I applaud the number of...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We could push people off.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I share Senators' outrage about the storming of an aid boat on its way to Gaza yesterday. I ask the Leader where is the United Nations in all of this. What sanctions are being used to penalise such action? I would like to hear the Minister for Foreign Affairs speak about the issue. I have two other requests to make of the Leader, both to do with the Minister for Education and Skills. I...

Seanad: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 May 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a subject dear to the Minister's heart, given that it is in his local constituency, Galway West. Will he ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will outline the current status of the sewerage scheme for An Spidéal and supply a timeframe for its delivery? This has been an issue for many years. Raw sewage is currently pumped into the bay via a 100 m...

Seanad: Water and Sewerage Schemes (25 May 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: From this, I understand Spiddal can expect to have its sewerage scheme by 2013. Given there are other schemes also waiting in the area, in Oughterard and Clifden, how does the Minister rank them in order of delivery?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (19 May 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will be brief in outlining this very serious issue. I welcome my good friend the Minister of State back to the House.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (19 May 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Perhaps I had a simultaneous lapse. Will the Minister of State outline the funding and resources which will be provided to make Cregmore national school, Cregmore, County Galway, a safer location following the horrific accident that occurred there three weeks ago when an articulated truck ploughed through the perimeter wall of the school as the pupils were leaving? I saw the closed circuit...