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Seanad: Early Childhood Education (17 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the point on flexibility. I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate former Senator Alan Kelly and wish him well in Europe. Politics is about people's lives and the positive effect it can have on the quality of their lives. Today, I am particularly dismayed to hear that only ten of the 128 special needs classes which the Minister for Education and Science proposes to cut won their appeal. In one of the unsuccessful classes, which I know well,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am saddened by the news that Foinse could go to ground. Will the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, intervene to save the newspaper? It is a newspaper for all Irish-speaking people and the Gaeltachtaí, and it is based in Carraroe in the Minister's constituency. The money he could direct into the newspaper would be better spent than the money...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sure many Members are getting e-mails that it is already under threat. Up to 81,000 places are needed for next year. The cap of €64.50 per child per week the Minister of State has put on the fee is unworkable. No preschool provider can produce places at such a cost. All the providers are seeking is the possibility for the parents to top up the fee. There are serious quality issues...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not a bad idea. It might be a means to stop Senator Ross speaking out, however. We need him speaking out.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader. I appreciate that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the preschool scheme?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not care too much about the Government and its empty defence of its poor performance in the polls. However, I care about the people of this country, and the sole purpose of the House should pertain to the hurt that is being caused to people every day, which Members now have heard about on the doorsteps. Will the Leader provide the House with an update tomorrow on the progress on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----to explain how he will help the 40,000 families who now are in danger of losing their homes? One's home is everything. He managed to secure a moratorium on foreclosures for 12 months. However, those couples who ran into difficulty at the end of 2008 now are at real risk of losing their homes. People are sick and tired of the Minister's actions in bailing out Anglo Irish Bank while he...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is local politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader's party should start governing.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader's party must start governing and think of the people it represents.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader should stop being so patronising.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: People are losing their homes.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for agreeing to do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Bacik.