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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Shannon issue is the Government's fault.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Shannon is the Government's fault and it will have to take the fallout for it.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the people at Abbott in Galway?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I had a request regarding the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Micheál Martin, intervening on job losses at Abbott in Galway.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Since I stood in the Chamber yesterday, the devastating news of 500 job losses at Abbott Galway has been confirmed. One of the factors involved is the axing of the Shannon-Heathrow route by the Government. I ask that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment intervene and work with IDA Ireland, Abbott Galway workers and Galway Chamber of Commerce to put a range of measures in place...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to express my deep concern at the rumour circulating currently in Galway that Abbott is talking to its workers. There seems to be a strong chance that 500 jobs in Galway may be lost. Abbott is a significant employer in the manufacture of medical devices. The Galway plant makes stents and Abbott employs 3,000 nationally. There could be serious implications for Galway. My point is——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——that once again, this exposes the myth that Fianna Fáil has managed the economy well. My main reason for speaking today is not unrelated to my previous point. I ask that the Minister for Education and Science should come before the House to discuss the results of the programme for international student assessment, PISA, to which a previous Government Senator referred today. I heard...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to finish this point. As a nation, we are entirely exposed in the area of maths and science. Because Ireland is peripheral and has a small population, Members on all sides of the House agree that we must build a knowledge society and a knowledge economy.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This nation needs a strong pool of mathematicians and researchers, as well as people to create the required high-end jobs to be able to survive and compete.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would welcome such a debate because — this is the crunch — our higher performing students are performing poorly. We do not have enough higher performing students in the higher band at levels five and six in mathematics in particular.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to finish this point. Given that these are the students who are receiving grinds in private schools——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——to gain places in college, this is a highly worrying sign for our education system.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his patience.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a soap opera.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: PISA.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.