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

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not quite fully understood.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree in principle with the extension of votes to include those living abroad and in Northern Ireland. However, I accept the argument put forward that it would be impossible to give the same weight to that vote. We are known to be a country with a diaspora of 70 million people. I accept that they are not all passport-holders but it would be very easy to have more voters from abroad than...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not know about it only for the fact that it was brought to my attention. We need this House to do very valuable work for the people. I envisage a different type of Seanad which would include the removal of the Whip system so that decisions are not compromised along party lines but are made on the basis of best argument and evidence put forward. This is not dissimilar to Senator...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise. I hope there is food for thought.I wish them well in their deliberations and thank them for the time they have given to this issue. Let us move ahead with implementation and ensure the implementation body includes not only Dáil Members but also Members of the Seanad and members of the public, as well as individuals with the necessary expertise. I look forward to sensible...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is trua nach bhfuil an tAire Oideachais agus Scileanna anseo ach cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta, Deputy Joe McHugh. I tabled this matter to ask the Minister for Education and Skills to facilitate the continuation of restricted recognition for graduates in Montessori education, as currently permitted under regulation 3 of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Ceart go leor.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would be very disappointed if the Minister were to sign the regulation. I urge her not to do so. I accept that the Teaching Council is very busy. At times, I am in close contact with the Teaching Council and it has said it has no interest in early years graduates. It does not acknowledge the very specific pedagogy that Maria Montessori afforded us all, and that has informed teacher...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what I am saying.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teaching Qualifications (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree with Senator Coghlan on the issue of responsibility around debt but I remind the House that Germany, which is now the strongest industrial nation in Europe, was given a significant debt write-down after the Second World War and it only recently finished repaying that debt after 70 years. We are hearing horrific accounts of families sending their children to orphanages because they...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is appalling.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We also need the long-term picture about the private sector being enlisted to help with this accommodation crisis.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With an extra €20,000 on a semi-detached house, the private sector will not bolt into action to solve the accommodation crisis. I look forward to the Leader's response.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Women.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Today, as others have said, is D-Day for lone parents when their payment is cut if their child has turned seven years of age. This is quite amazing. One must remember that these are lone parents and a seven year old is a very young child who cannot be left alone. If such children are left alone, that is neglect.The parenting would be called into question if that happened. I voted for this...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Did I or other Senators ever have to parent children alone? When my children were that age, I was glad to have a second parent. I take my hat off to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know how they do it. Let us not hang them out to dry. I thank the Leader for his time and look forward to the answer.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Our Greek colleagues are in desperate shape at the moment. I am very friendly with a member of parliament there who wrote to me on Monday and said she cannot believe this is happening so quickly that she may not be a European by the weekend. Of course, she will still be a European, but this is the result of reckless leadership by the Greeks themselves----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Norris is so right, but I am talking about today. Since this new Greek Government was elected a high-wire strategy is being played which is risking everything for all of us. We paid the price for the entire European banking system. We never got it back but that is another day's work. What I am talking about right now is the need to re-stabilise things. I want to check with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.