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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yesterday the nation was shocked, as was I, by George Lee's quick exit from politics but it was no less a shock than that felt by the 175 people who lost their jobs in Boston Scientific, Galway, yesterday. The company is a wonderful employer with more than 3,000 workers but another 175 people have been hurt, their homes are under threat and they will have huge money worries, given the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How is it serving the country? Please tell me because I do not see it. People in Galway are saying politicians should forget about imposing a 30 kph speed limit in Dublin, for example, and they should get on with fixing the country. What is the Government doing about the real issues? Can the Leader bring the Minster for Finance to the House to give, as Senator Coghlan called for, an...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Where is it?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will have such a debate tomorrow evening.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: He is not doing much about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a disparaging remark.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What is this about new-found interest?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She is doing it.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What can the Senator do about it? His party is in government.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senators Fitzgerald and Bacik have referred to the fact that the figures relating to unemployment are on the rise again. They both requested a debate on the Government's stimulus plan for the economy. Such a debate cannot take place because, as far as I am aware, the Government has no such plan. Meanwhile, there is a major crisis in the economy. Joblessness is on the increase and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is absolute rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a different time.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are talking factually.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are well aware of them.

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what it is all about.

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would Senator Leyden accept it?

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Senator Leyden accept our Private Members' Bill?

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. It is nice to see, for a change, that we are all of one mind here with regard to the dangers implicit in the products sold in head shops around the country. The Minister of State is familiar with the history of this issue. From autumn 2008 to March 2009, along with Senator Wilson and others, I ran a long campaign in the Seanad to get BZP banned. It was not...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Last year 400 people in this country were sent to prison for not paying their mortgages or bank loans. It is four months since the revised programme for Government was issued but we heard only over the weekend that the Government was "interested" in putting forward a homeowners' support scheme. Why was there a delay? Does the Leader know what life is like for anybody who runs the risk of...