Results 481-500 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Those are my four questions. I thank the Chair for her indulgence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hungary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the quality of teaching?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Mr. Cassells did not address the question of qualifications of the lecturers. When he spoke about professionalising them, is that what he meant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The issue of the 18 year olds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was only referring to questions that were asked and have not been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to repeat my question on internships. Mr. Cassells spoke about the employability of graduates. Will he comment on guidelines on internships and the usefulness of them, and also on the fact that some young people drop out of college, but if there was communication to parents, perhaps fees would not be lost?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The scheme to administer a mobility allowance to people with disabilities has not yet been finalised by the Department of Health. I am meeting a lot of people with disabilities who are angry at being forgotten about. I have written to the Department on several occasions and received assurances that the issue is being worked on, but nothing has happened. If the Leader could issue a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not know how the 300,000 people who are paying above and beyond to service their mortgages are managing. In many of the cases of mortgage restructuring of which I am aware, the people involved actually had tracker mortgages. One can hardly imagine how much variable rate mortgage holders are struggling. Will the Leader ask the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance to introduce the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They know how business is done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the Minister or the unions that is in charge?
- Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is great to have the Minister here in the Seanad. I concur with what Senator Mulcahy has said. I, too, enjoyed her presentation at the INTO conference and was quite touched by it. In terms of what the Minister has said in this debate about the new interim service, we could be on to something good if we do it right. About six weeks ago she headed off what was potentially a huge...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am raising an interesting issue that has come to light recently. I am asking the Minister for Education and Skills to recognise inequities that are arising for Galway second level students where both dyslexia and a language exemption co-exist. This problem is particularly affecting girls. It seems from a survey that has been done - I can read...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State's reply was general and it was not specific to the case. I accept that he has acknowledged the solution. I did not say this in my initial contribution, but this family has been on to the Minister twice about this issue. I hear what the Minister of State said about schools in a central location sharing resources to address this problem.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If schools do not have move on that, what can the Minister request schools to do?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations (15 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is important to provide guidelines because schools frequently do not react unless they are advised to do so.