Results 1,121-1,140 of 5,732 for speaker:Fidelma Healy Eames
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is very worrying. It is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a man whom I supported to be the Taoiseach and leader of this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What I am trying to say is this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are we in a parliamentary democracy or not? If so, let us accept democratic outcomes. I do not want an autocracy but, currently, that is what we are getting. We are getting fixing and tampering and the Taoiseach has attempted to abolish this House and to ignore a committee of this House. I repeat my call that unless we revert to the original result from the Committee of Selection for the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is work which has already been discredited.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I move that leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for annual ministerial expenditure ceiling programme reports and an annual statement of financial risks in order to increase transparency in the specification of programmes and to provide for measurable target outcomes intended to be delivered within ministerial expenditure ceilings, to improve transparency of...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is everything that is wrong with politics.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, "That No. 13 on the Order Paper be taken before No. 1." I also wish to state I am shocked by the disgraceful tampering on the part of the Government to try to fix this banking inquiry. Members should consider what they are trying to achieve in this regard. Is not the purpose of the banking inquiry to get to the truth of what happened? If...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Let it happen.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very grateful to the Senator. This issue is so important that the time allocated should be extended.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that possible?
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister has heard my request also, and so has the Acting Chairman. This issue has touched many people.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Only having 45 minutes to debate an issue as deeply moving as this is inappropriate in Seanad Éireann.
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Many of us have been deeply shocked by this issue. Everybody across the Houses has expressed shock. My entire family was born in the Grove Hospital in Tuam which was run by the Bon Secours nuns. I have wondered since this story broke whether we were born alongside some of these children who were condemned to the mother and baby homes. Subsequently, I went to boarding school in Tuam and I...
- Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is appalling for such an important issue in our social history and living history-----