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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Curran, for remaining in the House to respond to this matter. Will the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government consider the provision of a support scheme for households and families that have suffered as a result of lead contamination in the water supply in Galway city, arising from the existence of an outdated and defunct lead...

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am disappointed with that response. We do not need the Minister's sympathy. I am seeking serious consideration of a request for a grant scheme, and let today be the beginning of that consideration. It has been done in the other areas I mentioned. The Minister said there is no difficulty with funding for the provision of safe drinking water in Galway city. There is little use in water...

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is nonsense.

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have asked my question.

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I heard that.

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Minister of State consider it further? Will he discuss it with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government?

Seanad: Water Supply Contamination (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand that, but I am asking the Minister of State if he will take the matter to him again.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A number of weeks ago I made an urgent request of the Minister for Health and Children to introduce legislation to control the sale of herbal ecstasy in head shops throughout the country. Senator Wilson repeated the call in an Adjournment debate. I reiterate the request as a result of numerous calls from parents and health officials yesterday in Galway city. The head shop in Galway has...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Time and again, newspapers publish results without noting how the children were performing when they entered first year. However, it is time for the Government to examine the resources and funding it provides to fee paying schools and, especially, what the team of teachers in these private schools are doing differently to produce these results, and I suspect they are doing something differently.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister will not come to the House anyway. Does it matter that I am asking a question?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I strongly support the promotion and practice of music and the arts, as it is critical to our culture and identity. However, is it proportionate at this time for the Government to give €3 million to Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, given the severe cuts in core education areas? I would like everyone to put their hands on their hearts and answer that question. I lived in Belgrave Square,...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Aontaím go daingean leis an Seanadóir Ó Tuathail faoin gcinneadh uafásach de bharr na ndeontais le haghaidh na coláistí samhraidh. I agree completely with Senator O'Toole who decried the total idiocy involved in cutting the grants for Irish summer colleges. This is the one way we are managing to keep our language alive for children in the Galltacht. Even where children hate the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the clarification. I am concerned that Ireland is an uncompetitive country where a job is lost every three minutes and consumers are voting with their feet and travelling to Northern Ireland to do their shopping. Tax returns have reduced considerably and I seek two open debates in this regard. It is time to debate the social partnership model because I am not...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is relying on an old plan to solve today's problems and that is unwise. The debate on the economy should also examine the social partnership model. I would like its advantages and disadvantages outlined in an open debate. We should also debate with an open mind the advantages and disadvantages of the Aer Lingus-Ryanair proposal. A year ago, Aer Lingus was allowed by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Transport to the House to discuss the major infrastructural projects in Transport 21 he plans to suspend and to outline when they will be restored?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is time he delivered.