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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the remarks by the Governor of the Central Bank regarding the dangers of capping salaries and his intimation that this could lead to an engagement in risky loans? Has the culture in this regard not changed? If not, where does the regulator come in? This important issue is the lead story in today's Irish Independent. I ask the Leader...

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey. It seems I always put Adjournment matters to him and I trust he has good news for all the couples and families waiting to adopt babies from Russia. I call on the Minister for Health and Children to indicate when the blacklist regarding post-placement records of children adopted into Ireland from Russia will be cleared. This clearance is...

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: From what the Minister of State said, the blame rests with adoptive families who have not facilitated home visits by the HSE. Can they not be hurried?

Seanad: Adoption Services (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is clearly what was said.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Like other Members, I congratulate Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on her nomination as Ireland's EU Commissioner. I wish her well and hope she achieves her goals. She is a woman of very strong principles. Go n-éirí an bóthar léi. I am quite upset about the manner in which student hardship has been trivialised in this Chamber over the last few days.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a pretty serious issue. It is time the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government came to the House to discuss the delays in paying student grants. I have been in contact with a student in Cork who has been living in a car for nine weeks. I am aware of the case of a student in Galway who was allowed by the college to repeat his exams on medical grounds after he...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She was the first woman Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As an associate member of a teaching union, I have been somewhat disturbed by the e-mails I have been receiving from the union encouraging me to vote in favour of industrial action. It is the right of unions to do so, but the question is whether it is responsible for the union leadership to be encouraging strike action at a time of national economic collapse. I do not believe they speak for...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was artificial.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: At what time?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach and Senator Leyden for allowing me to speak. I am predicting that there could be civil unrest, unless the Government makes the interventions necessary prior to the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There are 420,000 people unemployed. Yesterday I was told by the Union of Students in Ireland that in Cork there were students sleeping in cars, that in Tipperary there were students being evicted and that in Waterford IT there were 7,000 students to one counsellor. The reason for this is that grants are not being paid. Worse still - this is the bad news - I have been asking the Leader for...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach. Will the three teacher training colleges, St. Patrick's College, Marino College and Mary Immaculate College, be offering places on postgraduate courses this year? Normally, places would be advertised at this time and the colleges would be receiving many queries. Usually, they offer 400 places nationally with students starting the postgraduate course in primary...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the Student Support Bill? I asked when it will come before the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is because there is a problem with funding.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am asking and have asked a number of times when the Student Support Bill will come before this House. That is the fundamental question.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: All of the crises in students' lives are as a result of the non-payment of grants.