Results 781-800 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ghandi once said that the future depends on what we do today. Our future depends on what we do today about water. I accept the assurances offered by the Minister and this Government that they will not privatise water but that is not the point. The Minister will not be there forever. Any measure we put into the Statute Book should be strong enough to prevent unintended consequences in the...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I am very uncomfortable with the response to Senator Mary Moran's request.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
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- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
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- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We need respect, and that respect has not been acknowledged by the person delivering the comment.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He actually complimented the Minister.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Like other Senators, I am disappointed that the amendments proposing the holding of a referendum on protection from privatisation of our water resource have been ruled out order. I would like an explanation for their being ruled of order.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I believe the problem could have been worked out. The Minister in his response yesterday in this House asked if Senators were seeking that Irish Water or water be protected from privatisation under the Constitution. We are seeking the protection of the water resource. We should have debated that issue. What are we afraid of? Why are we not willing to stand up for the Irish people and say...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree with Senator Ó Murchú that we need to protect the water of Ireland for the people of Ireland. I am delighted that Senator Barrett has put forward a measure that could strengthen the weakness of the plebiscite which the Government is offering the people. Senator Barrett's middle ground protection is a wisely and judiciously sought strengthening of the plebiscite, which is...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear. We are part of that 2%.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Coghlan should vote for it.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House. I appreciate that he is bringing a level of realism to the debate that was not here this time last year. One year ago I did not vote for water charges for one reason - namely, that I had got no answers to the questions I asked. We are back here a year later for that very reason. The other side of the House assumed at the time that it had all the wisdom...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We do not want to play politics.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They could whistle it.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Only because of the unrest.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Deputy explain that? The taxpayer is paying €1 billion for water.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Whelan should put facts on the record.