Results 501-520 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to outline for her the reason Galway County Council's municipal district of Connemara should be designated as a separate stand-alone lot under the social inclusion programme, SICAP, and to suggest social inclusion funding should be awarded accordingly. The decision taken by the Department, overseen by Galway County Council, has caused uproar in...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----and this would not give her the same service or understand her unique problems. To be fair to GRD in Athenry, it is not claiming it has the capacity. Will the Minister revisit this decision? As I understand it, it is now under judicial review. It was an appalling decision.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: For the second largest county in Ireland, the ideal decision is that Galway would be divided into two lots and that Connemara would be a stand-alone, separate lot. I thank the Minister of State and the indulgence of the House in respect of the time allocated to me.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is understood.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and the House for its indulgence in respect of the time. I hear what the Minister of State is saying about national policy. That is not at issue here. I accept that the national devolves to local, etc., but the issue here is the way the committee made its decision. It is not putting people first at local level. If it was, this decision would...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It messed up here.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They were not adequately informed.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (1 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State and will relay her message.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No more questions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Where is Senator Paul Coghlan?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Mullins contribution on Syria. Children in Syria are displaced. They are not receiving any education. I am part of a programme called "UpForSchool" which is aimed at getting the 58 million children worldwide who are not at school worldwide into school. This September there will be a UN summit where all world leaders will be asked to sign a commitment to sustainable...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate the Leas-Cathaoirleach's support.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What is wrong with God?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The ruling of the Chair to the effect that nobody's name should be mentioned is ridiculous because to make a substantive point, one should be able to cite a source. Those reading the Official Report in the years to come will see these points being made without any substantiation. That is very poor practice.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that making disparaging remarks about each other is out of order, but I ask the House to revisit that ruling. I was thinking about this Bill over the weekend. It covers six main areas of law and is significant legislation. For the first time in this country, it sets up a donor assisted human reproduction, DAHR, industry. This should have been provided for in a separate Bill. How...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking about DAHR.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, I am.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am angry and annoyed because of the deception involved. There should be a stand-alone Bill to take care of DAHR for two parents.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ideally for two parents. Everything we are doing is supposed to be in the best interests of the child. If we are acting in the best interests of the child, we will do our best to give him or her a mother and a father. That is in his or her best interests. I am not saying that is always practicable, but it is in the best interests of the child. It is not right to say biology does not...