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- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That does not prevent it from happening in the future.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not if the factories are still in control.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Bring him into the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to follow up on what Senator Bradford has said. Such a debate is worthy of consideration. In a way the vote is collapsing for the Democratic Party because President Obama has not been the Messiah people expected him to be based on all his original promises. Everyone needs to learn from that situation. Will the Leader tell me when the Minister for Education and Skills will come to...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in terms of pay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I heard the Minister.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Or sick pay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand completely.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If the Minister or I were employed on one of these week-to-week contracts, we would not be able to plan our lives. What comfort can he give me to pass on to the considerable number of the workforce - 150,000 people - employed as agency workers? I look forward to the establishment of the commission on low pay. I could just as easily be talking on behalf of the employers' side or the small...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, to the House. I am grateful that he is here to take this Adjournment matter as the senior Minister in the Department. My case is the need for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to consider the poor prospects of agency workers who exist on week-to-week contracts and how he can improve their lot. It is in everyone's interest that...
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Look how complicated water is.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What about Galway University Hospital?
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are not asking the Minister to come to Galway. We just want him to talk to us about it.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome. I wish to raise policy issues around the emergency unit in Galway University Hospital. The level of overcrowding is dangerous. I have received the following comments: If this was any other workplace, it would be closed due to health and safety. It was like a scene from a film of a catastrophe or a warzone.The previous Senator from Galway who spoke also...
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: In the event of a fire in an accident and emergency room how would people be evacuated safely? How can the issue of isolation be addressed?
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I ask the Minister to give us his thoughts on ways to improve the accident and emergency situation in Galway University Hospital.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It did not make a difference.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We will have a debate tomorrow on this. It is about water, but it is about more than this. It is about the effect of the recession on the people. They are saying enough is enough and this is the tipping point. I would be grateful for silence from my fellow Senators.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If we needed proof of this, I was struck by the report issued last week by UNICEF on the effect of the recession on children, which showed that 170,000 Irish children, our citizens, live in poverty. One must question the Government's priorities in this case. I take my hat off to Fr. Tony O'Riordan in Moyross who put out a plea to Catholic churches throughout the country to sell any unused...