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Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about Senator Bradford's proposal to bring the question of social partnership before hearings of this House?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Diagnostic Laboratory Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is welcome. I thank her for taking this Adjournment matter. My question is to ask the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, if she will present evidence and justification for her comments in the Dáil on 8 December 2009 on public diagnostic laboratory services and if she will support them with respect to clinical laboratory services in the HSE. The...

Seanad: Diagnostic Laboratory Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for her response but I am not satisfied that the statement addressed the issue. Is the Minister concerned that her statements on the record will open the State to litigation?

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senators in residence.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He means £2 million.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is an important amendment. I commend Deputies Ruairí Quinn and John Perry for alerting the Government to the need for it in the other House and I commend the Minister of State for bringing it forward here. Given the fund manager is American, would he or she listen to an Irish Minister, would he or she be compelled to do so and how would we enforce that requirement? The amendment is...

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will that be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas?

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The annual audited accounts.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.

Seanad: George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are happy to support this Bill. It is worth reflecting on it, however, because it has huge potential for Ireland in its relations with the United States. It was established by the US-Ireland Alliance to honour Senator George Mitchell's contribution to the peace process and the tradition that was started by the Kennedy family, particularly the late Ted Kennedy. It is now in its tenth...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We did not get any guarantee. That is why.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I propose an amendment to today's Order of Business to invite the Minister for Education and Science to the House to discuss the escalating crisis in our schools which threatens to bring them to a halt. Is the Government concerned about the news that teaching unions have directed their members from 8 March not to carry out middle management duties of teachers not replaced as a result of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am asking the Leader now-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am asking the Leader to call on the Minister to intervene urgently with the unions to reach an arrangement so our schools are not brought to a halt. I appreciate the Leader taking my amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is where they are all going.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Whose fault is it?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.