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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----I am severely disappointed. I call on the Leader to invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, to come to the Seanad to discuss and debate the issue of beef farming. While many farmers will attend the ploughing championships this week and much has been said about growth in the economy, this is not the case for beef farmers. They are being paid...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Significant historical moments have been mentioned in the House this morning and culture has been referred to also. Yeats has been quoted liberally and next year we will celebrate his 150th birthday. Senator Susan O'Keeffe and I are heavily involved in the preparations for this event and last night we won a significant victory in this House on this matter. In 2009 the ancestral home of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Susan O'Keeffe will probably take one minute of the time. She thought my matter was being taken after Senator Byrne's, as a result of which she has just left the House. Perhaps someone could give her a call.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not a problem. The Minister of State is very welcome. We are facing into a wonderfully big year in the life of W.B. Yeats, as next year will be the 150th anniversary of his birth. My motion asks the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure Fáilte Ireland would consider providing a licence to the Yeats Thoor Ballylee society, of which I am chair, to enable...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Heritage Projects (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very grateful to the Minister of State. This is good news. It is the first day of the new term of Seanad Éireann, the House in which W.B. Yeats served from 1922 to 1928, and in which his son served subsequently. This is a great way to honour his memory. I have been feeling quite unwell all day but suddenly I am feeling great. I appreciate this because it is the way things...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome back colleagues. It is good to be back and it is time to start working. Over recent weeks and during the next month, there has been and will be much speculation about the budget and its contents. People will be worried and so on, and for this reason I seek to have No. 26 on the Order Paper debated in the Chamber. It is my own Bill on reform of the budgetary process and is called...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am last but hopefully not least.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is very welcome. I thank him for his patience and listening. I wish him well in his new role as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. It is good to be here today. I was one of the people who supported the recall of the Seanad. Many people asked what we can do and if we can make a difference. We only have to recall the bravery of those few young girls in Dunnes Stores in the...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, will the Leader indicate whether everybody in the House will be given an opportunity to speak and at what time does he expect the debate to finish?

Seanad: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to follow up on the issue Senator Zappone has raised, namely, whether the banking corporation could have a role in social entrepreneurship. Not everything has the hard-and-fast approach of SMEs but yet in communities throughout the country social entrepreneurship can have a wonderful impact. It can have strong social as well as economic outcomes. At a time when a country has been...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate the Minister on his elevation to the post of Cabinet Minister.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know. I believe I sat in front of the Minister in the last Seanad. It is good he has this role because he has an understanding of this House, what it can do and what it could do, if it was given teeth. It is good that this is now in his remit and I believe history will be kind to him if he grabs hold of it. Let us face it, the Government has been less than decent in how it has perceived...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the IFA for its presentation. It was said farm incomes had fallen to between €10,000 and €16,000, which is appallingly low. Has there been an increase in farm assist? If so, what has it been? Will Mr. Comer outline the up-to-date position on GLAS because there was a march to Agriculture House? I would like to flag the beef crisis. Will Mr. Comer outline what he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That will not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the point. In regard to road hauliers, the figure of €400 was mentioned as a benchmark for equalising the cost of changing the HGV arrangement. Can we get an up-front assurance that trucks would re-register here? That is the minimum needed to even risk changing the rules because obviously the Government is always worried about losing revenue. The point was made that...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would also like to wish everybody on all sides of the House a happy summer and a well-deserved break. I look forward to coming back here in the autumn. I really believe that this House, which is a House of Parliament, should be shaping the Ireland we want. We are the voices that have been elected to give guidance to Government and to inform Government choices. Government actions speak...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to a question. It makes that very worthwhile promotion in the senior ranks by Fine Gael look like mere tokenism for women. If we are serious about organisational change, our leaders must lead by example. When we come back in the autumn, I am looking for a debate about gender in politics and whether having women leading in politics means anything at all. Does it mean anything...