Results 5,121-5,140 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Transport 21 projects have been delayed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to welcome the increase in capitation to help with the day-to-day costs of running schools, a point every speaker made during the debate on the Fine Gael motion on underfunding of primary education. It is not as much as we would like but it is a step in the right direction. I am flabbergasted, however, by the increase in pupil-teacher ratio. It should have been an...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the cruellest cut of all because it affects children's learning and their life chances in a highly competitive world. As a result of this cut in the pupil-teacher ratio, I ask urgently for a debate with the Minister for Education and Science on learning outcomes and the factors that affect it. This move shows he does not understand the importance of learning outcomes and the effects...
- Seanad: Water Pollution (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Kitt, a fellow county person. I wish to raise the pollution of Lough Corrib which, as the Minister of State knows, is the source of Galway's drinking water and the effects of that pollution. Last Friday I heard a news report on the official Environmental Protection Agency results which said that Lough Corrib is a polluted lake which is the...
- Seanad: Water Pollution (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his response. We have been hearing about the water services investment programme for years and all these sewerage schemes have been on Galway County Council plans for years. The question I have is when Oughterard, Claregalway and Clonbur will have their tertiary treatment systems and whether the councils have the required funding yet?
- Seanad: Volunteering in Irish Society: Statements (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share my time with Senator Quinn.
- Seanad: Volunteering in Irish Society: Statements (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him on highlighting this important issue, the important role of volunteering in Irish society. Many points have been made that I had intended making and, therefore, I will make a few brief points. In my experience volunteerism is the lifeblood of local communities. I live in Oranmore, a burgeoning area of population growth. It is the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is budget day and I believe the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, has very important decisions to make. Our economy is in deep financial crisis due to collusion between big developers and the banks, supported by the Government, all for their own benefit. These people will now be allowed write off their own losses at the taxpayers' expense and at the expense of PAYE workers and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will finish the point. We are expectingââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: ââcosts of â¬1million at the High Court but the patient has still not saved any money.
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government has wasted our money.
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government has wasted our money.
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With the permission of the House I will give one minute of my time to Senator Frances Fitzgerald.
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am disappointed to see that the entire Government side has left the House, bar the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey. I cannot believe my eyes. Is this a measure of how much they are on the run? This motion is about the underfunding of primary education. It is great to see Government Senators coming into the Chamber now. I thank them for that. The quality of education outcomes is...
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We also need to know the Government's ICT commitment and we require transparency in the schools building programme. I welcome the Minister's decision to provide a dedicated line in this respect. In addition, school principals should be relieved of some of their inordinately onerous paperwork. I look forward to some imaginative ways of achieving that, which should be easy to do. I commend...
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I move: "That Seanad Ãireann noting; the massive shortfall in day-to-day funding of primary schools and their over-reliance on fundraising as the new means of funding primary education; the Department of Education and Science's decision to abolish the Summer Works Scheme for primary schools in 2007/2008 and the failure to date to reinstate the scheme for 2008/2009; the deferral of minor...
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Given the state of the economy, we are at a particularly critical time in our history. The underfunding of primary school education is causing a serious situation. I intend to raise five points, which I would like the Minister to address in his reply. I will begin by examining how we fare compared to other OECD countries. The recent OECD report entitled "2008: Education at a Glance", which...
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Has he reintroduced the summer works scheme?
- Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: When?