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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It happened this time last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It happened with older people last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Emigration.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader should be truthful.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What does that mean?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was Bob Dylan.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The fact that he trusts FÁS is the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have done it. It has been published.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It did - past tense.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And widows.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is pushing people towards poverty.

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What is the legal status of the Murphy report as it stands? Will priests who sexually abused children and those who covered up and facilitated such abuse by not acting be convicted as a result of this report? What is the legal status of the report? I am not convinced that it has a powerful legal status. Page 44 of the report states that an archdiocese does not "have to comply with any...

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Moreover, the possibility of putting in place mandatory reporting on a legal basis also should be considered, as should a statutory footing for child protection guidelines. Certainly, the Minister of State should respond to my previous questions on the legal status of this report-----

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----to ensure that convictions are achieved for those who covered up as well as for those who abused.

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I am appalled by the latest child abuse report, which relates to the sexual abuse of children by the clergy. How many more reports are needed before the State starts to act resolutely? The Ryan report on institutional abuse was published earlier this year. We have not yet debated the implementation plan for that report. Mandatory reporting of child abuse...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I compliment Fianna Fáil backbenchers for calling it right on the ridiculous proposal of 12 days unpaid leave. It proves some people in Fianna Fáil are still in touch with reality because 12 days unpaid leave will not deliver public sector reform but will deliver chaos on the front line. The leaders of these unions and the Ministers dealing with them are not in touch with reality. The...