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Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the budget?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is welcome. Will the Minister, on a point of order——

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not without help.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Surely the Minister means the opposite. They spend too much time on administration.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And no secretaries.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a Third World standard.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is an insult to the Government.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This Government blew the boom.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The specific detail.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is going backwards; he should go forward.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator's party broke all their promises in their years of government.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Overnight serious concerns have been expressed to me about the lack of clarity in regard to the various risks to the taxpayer as a result of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008. Before we agree to this legislation, we need to ensure it is good and sound. For example, if I deposit my money in Ulster Bank and Senator Cassidy deposits his money in Allied Irish Banks——

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——he now has a State guarantee but I do not have one.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Unintentionally, the Minister for Finance may have exposed banks which are sound——

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that but it is very important we raise these questions in order that Members have time to think about them before the debate. There must be a level playing field. Farmers have contacted me to say that in the past week, millions of euro have been deposited in the single farm premium in some of these banks which will not have the State guarantee. Is the Government taking...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.