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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. I will share an incident one might consider local but it is a symptom of our health system. On Monday there were 81 people on trolleys in University Hospital Galway. One of those patients has severe dementia and she was on a trolley for two days. She did not even know where she was. Her husband, who is almost 80 years of age, told me he did...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, the Leader did not respond to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We had an Order of Business that was not concluded.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Check it out.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I am disappointed the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, is not present. I feel deceived by the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton. I voted for this cut when I was on that side of the House on the basis that she said she would not introduce this change to reduce the age for the one-parent family payment from 14 years to seven years until, to quote her famous phrase,...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I find the lone parent cut very difficult because I am always struck with admiration when lone parents come to see me. It is always the mother who comes to see me. They come to talk about the challenges to stay in education and continue to rear their child and generally it is to do a master's degree. I am struck by the mothers who rear their children and manage alone. The key word for me...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I need about a minute. Every parent, every mother, has a father, a partner.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There are two things the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, should have done. She should have come in with a proper child care system to allow parents go back to education and to allow them to work. She has not done that. The other question is, why are we not pursuing the father?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When one creates, one should be able to take responsibility for that. Whoever procreates should contribute.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have family members who have gone through this and I have friends who have gone through this. They have been in and out of courts trying to get the dual responsibility of the father to pay up for his children. If it fails in the courts, let us have direct payments from social welfare or from salaries. That is a policy I want to see implemented. What type of society are we propagating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome Ms Brigid Ms McManus. I thank the Chairman for scheduling this event. I used to be a full member of this committee but, of late, I am not. I have come in deliberately because I have long connections with the NCCA. I commend Ms McManus on her long career of dedicated public service. If it is acceptable to the Chairman, there are four questions I wish to put. Can Ms McManus tell...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have seen schools approach parents asking them to move their child down to pass in first year, the parent begging the school to let the child go to the Gaeltacht and see how it goes, and the child liking it, but we are killing it off too soon. I would like Ms McManus's views on those four areas and thank the Chair for her indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In Gaeltacht areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gauging the learning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have one supplementary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A question has come to me in the course of the debate. Would the NCCA support measures to prevent the extinction of Latin as a subject in secondary schools, given the widespread known benefits of Latin to our language as a basis for other languages in terms of improving literacy, vocabulary and grammar?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion. (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That would be useful. It was interesting that the question came in during the course of the debate, which means that people are listening.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the former Senators. I was a little surprised to be allowed speak on this report today because it is not that long ago since we were here, perhaps two months. In terms of my input on this issue, I have made a written submission and I spoke on the last occasion. Usually one is not allowed to speak twice on the same subject. I am here, however, because this is important and we are...

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does this mean the voter decides up front where he or she wants to spend their vote, either on the university panel or in the direct elections? It would be no harm to put those facts on the record.