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- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to a question. Their working capital to run their farms and provide for their families is gone. They entered into bridging and term loan arrangements, with genuine expectations of being paid. It is absolute rubbish to say that the Minister did not know. Applications were approved and signed off by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader please invite the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to address the Seanad? These farmers must be paid. We need an urgent debate on this. It is not fair to scapegoat farmers, who do not leave the country but continue to work, even when they are unemployed. Now they find themselves in difficulty in paying for basics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Leader to please bring the Minister into the Seanad as a matter of urgency to address the issue of the farm waste management scheme.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what everyone in the street is saying.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They are the ordinary people of Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is up to the Minister to mandate him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Call on the Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would say Senator Leyden has convinced the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Name and shame.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Leyden knows the names.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Talk to Cowen. Does the Senator not have a direct line to him?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government should govern.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Come clean.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This single cut is enough to allow the Government to perish. The Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is hiding behind a policy of inclusion. Not all children with special learning difficulties are suited to mainstream classes. Children with mild learning difficulties are low functioning, with IQs of between 50 and 70. The average person has an IQ between 90 and 110....
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: My God, that is a desperate response.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Last Tuesday.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And severe.