Results 5,181-5,200 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How does the Leader know I do not?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am representing the taxpayer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With respectââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He spoke directly to me and I would like to respond.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is the first official recession in Europe.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State to the House on our first day back in the Seanad. I hate to start by saying I was really disappointed with his speech and that he did not go into some of the detail of the guarantee being given by our taxpayers to the banks today. This measure is unprecedented in our history and the biggest blank cheque we have ever written. The Minister of State gave us no...
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is outrageous. What are these people doing? Are they doing a job? Are there other people in the HSE doing the same jobs and are they not competent enough to do them? Is that why they are being paid this extra overtime? One garda received â¬83,000 extra. Another garda said to me recently that he must not have gone to bed at all. What is the Government going to do to control this?
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to hear answers from the Minister to the four issues I have raised. The taxpayer needs to be assured that there is a sound basis, that there is not a false bottom in our economy.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Irish taxpayer.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: So has Fine Gael. The Senator is being very disingenuous.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely not.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We need to know that.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Thanks to the taxpayer, of course they would.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We need to know that.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: These are the details.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A rescue.
- Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (30 Sep 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Government is not doing that at the moment. It is cutting out disability allowance.