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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader for making time available for this afternoon's debate with the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and for that in respect of Irish Water which is due to take place tomorrow. Will he confirm the amount of time that will be allocated in respect of each of these important debates? The debate relating to Irish Water is particularly relevant. I attended the protest in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information, I am referring to the debate in this House on Irish Water.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I supported water charges but the way they have been rolled out is wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We did not get answers.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She should stick to the facts, rather than being unnecessarily provocative. Irish Water is a mess.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Listening to the debates over the weekend, two words struck me: "hypocrisy" and "cover-up". On the hypocrisy of the leader of Sinn Féin, Deputy Gerry Adams, it took the courage of a young woman, Mairía Cahill, who had been violated to finally get an admission from him that there was the practice of having kangaroo courts within the Republican movement, which was a second abuse, on...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What I am looking for is less hypocrisy and more truth. I was also struck by the hypocrisy of the Government and members of the Government parties in the cover-up about Irish Water. Let us call a spade a spade. Irish Water is not perfect, but Members of the House on the Government side and Government Members in the Dáil put Irish Water in place. The legislation was approved in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We must have fairness on the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Stillbirth Loss: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association (16 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On perinatal matters, I seek answers to the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Stillbirth Loss: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association (16 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I raised the issue of registration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Stillbirth Loss: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association (16 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This has been the most emotional presentation that I have ever been present for. I am struck by the level of healing that Féileacáin is offering people at a time of grief when, as Deputy Neville said, there is no other outward sign of the acknowledgment of the parents' huge loss. We do funerals well in Ireland. We go through a process which helps people deal with their...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fish Farming (15 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for the clarification and that is why it is important that this debate is taking place. The purpose of the debate is to clarify the import of the minutes and their ramifications. I accept the distinction the Minister made. However, it is clear when reading the minutes that Marine Harvest Ireland was trying to rush the licensing process not just for this application,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fish Farming (15 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is going on for years.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fish Farming (15 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. I know he is directly involved with the issue I am raising and we have discussed it in the past. Will he clarify the import of the minutes of a meeting between him, the Taoiseach and a company called Marine Harvest about the Galway Bay sea farm project and licence? Will he clarify the ramifications of those minutes for the licensing process? These minutes were...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fish Farming (15 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am asking questions. My Adjournment matter is to ask the Minister to clarify this. I am making statements but I am open to hearing an answer. Why did this meeting take place while the Minister is still making up his mind? Why were the other 21 companies not invited? There is a serious issue about Deputy McHugh’s role. He lobbied heavily for Marine Harvest on the Oireachtas Joint...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I do not know if I got a chance to congratulate him on his new role. We must remember that we are taking in €65 billion in income but spending €70 billion. We are still borrowing €5 billion to run the country. While we are on an upward trajectory, we have a long way to go yet. The Minister for Finance spent €585 million in...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: One career guidance teacher for 500 kids is pie in the sky. It is not possible to sustain that. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Defence, Deputy Coveney, to come to the House to discuss the Ebola crisis? It is growing more worrying by the day. We need to know that we are ready should anybody here be affected. We need to know what precautions and screening are being taken. I was...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I join in the welcome to Senator Craughwell. He is a native of Galway. When he first approached me to vote for him in the Seanad by-election he said he wanted to test the democratic process in the Seanad. He certainly tested it. The road was rocky and uncertain but he has prevailed. I congratulate him. Senator Craughwell’s presence in this House is also remarkable because he left...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.