Results 5,461-5,480 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There are lifelong benefits.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is referring to quantity while we are discussing quality.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not a fair comment.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept the withdrawal.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator is correct if she is referring to regular children but not if she is referring to those with special needs.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are waiting.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear. Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should have a word with the Taoiseach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Male and female.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Everything about which I will speak this morning is a crisis. I asked the Leader to intervene last week with regard to the pharmacy issue. We are within ten days of the deadline. Have we given up on talks? Has the Leader had any success in persuading the Minister for Health and Children to pull back from the 1 March deadline so that talks can be reopened with the Irish Pharmaceutical...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: People are still without water. The situation is terrible.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They are untrained.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not what we said.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not at all adequate.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister has no Irish-based research.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the Government's fault.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Last night in the Dáil the Government voted against the appropriate education of children with autism. I am saddened by this outcome and I support the call for a debate on this. If the Minister for Education and Science is serious about the appropriate education of children with autism, she will conduct research into both the eclectic method of teaching, which she favours for financial...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I need to say my piece. The Government is wronging children with autism. They do not receive an appropriate education and if the Minister is to do them due service, she must take time before she rules out centres providing ABA tuition and she must merge ABA central to the autistic units.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Education and Science back to the House to resume the debate, which is not over? This is a valid House, which needs to convey its views on education for autistic children. Last week I raised the issue of 25 young mothers in education in Galway city who are at high risk of falling out of the system because the Minister of State at the Department of...