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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This House is not working. Once again we have a dismissal of the questions asked. I will happily leave the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is no accountability and the Leader is putting it aside once again. Senator Healy Eames withdrew from the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear. They never turn up.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is a member of the Senator Boyle's party.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who is the Minister with responsibility for local government?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a national story.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I bring a serious matter to the Leader's attention. Galway Rape Crisis Centre has informed my that men are hanging around direct provision centres and hostels, openly soliciting women and children for trafficking in prostitution. It has further informed my that 20% of its clients seeking counselling following rape and sexual abuse are asylum seekers and refugees. When one considers that...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need an urgent debate on the matter. The REPS must be restored. It is co-financed by the European Union and it would make more sense than making payments from the Exchequer in the form of farm assist.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran. I hope he can help me to achieve my goal this evening by liaising with his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. He should ask him whether Coláiste na Coiribe, Galway city, will be included in the next public private partnership, PPP, bundle and when this is likely to happen in...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I realise that no decision has been made on the allocation of the next bundle. My fear is that the revised long-term enrolment projections will be used as a reason to defer an allocation next autumn. Is there a possibility that this fact will be used against the school? The school has a band rating of 1.1 and is in the highest category...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: When will the Minister make a decision?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yesterday, the Economic and Social Research Institute said that 35,000 families face the prospect of not being able to pay their mortgages. We are talking about people's homes. Like Senator MacSharry, I have raised this issue on previous occasions. What is the Government doing? While Nero fiddles here, Rome burns outside. If people lose their homes, the country will fall apart. Of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Senator admitting the HSE was a mistake?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator agrees that the HSE is a mistake.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is correct. It is his Government who put it in place.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a national issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are getting there.