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Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Bring her back.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Leader's party has had many of them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The party has spent a fortune on them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Leader make statements of this nature at meetings of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party? That is where he should be making those comments.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: BreastCheck operates in the west but not in the north west.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Some people research their work, not like you.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: You do not deliver, do you? You do not have a clue.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My three questions relate to threats to the family home. We have learned that of the €90 billion of toxic debt, €30 billion relates to property bought abroad, including, for example, apartments. Is the Leader aware that in many cases the family home has been used as collateral for such apartments abroad? Has the Minister for Finance considered how this will now put the family home at...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need detail.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It does not sound like there is an economic crisis.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That should have been done in the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The difficulty with the budget is that it does not provide solutions in respect of the major problems that will have a critical effect on the future of this country. The position with regard to waste has not been reformed and a job stimulus package has not been provided. A paltry 1,400 places will be provided on enterprise allowance schemes. What effect will this have on an economy that is...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Taxpayers are bailing out the banks. In that context, I am extremely concerned with regard to the proposal to establish a national asset management agency. Why should we be forced to pay for speculators' debts and take on assets that no one wants to buy on the open market? We need school buildings and we need land.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: However, the chances are that the land——

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——that no one wants to buy on the open market is not situated in the right place. I also call for——

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——a debate on the banks.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not if one is on a fixed mortgage.