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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is linked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is just a thought on equality budgeting. One problem is having too many agencies that are interested in the sector. For example, in addition to the Equality Budgeting Campaign, there are organisations such as Social Justice Ireland, the Conference of Religious of Ireland, CORI, and so on. It would be really useful were all these organisations to get together and to have a single...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If such groups ran a co-ordinated effort with an equality budgeting office, to which each group contributed X amount, as well as having a function, it then would be easier for members to ask whether the aforementioned office had been consulted. For example, the ESRI and the CSO have huge credibility, but while everything being done by the Equality Budgeting Campaign merits credibility, it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree but it is worth reconsidering this possibility without, if I may say so, seeking new funding. Such groups coming together could bring to bear all their efforts, because what they are doing is so important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, that is a good idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the witnesses from both panels. My first question is to those from the social enterprise section of Forfás. There is huge potential for growth in the social enterprise sector, but it is not well understood in Ireland. The witnesses are probably aware that Leader has been quite good at funding projects in this area but it is now in abeyance until the next tranche of funding,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They have not met with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hopefully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Where are witnesses feeding in their information? What exactly is the organisation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is crucial. If we want equality budget proofing it needs to happen in every Government Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It needs to be fed in in advance of the budget. It also needs to be fed in strategically and not simply by way of a chat at this committee. I am conscious that the witnesses' campaign is made up of all these organisations, but do they have a dedicated staff to do this work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How are the witnesses collating their data and what expertise do they have on their team? They might tell me a little more about that. With regard to the disadvantaged groups, did Ms Bayliss say "working lone parents" as opposed to lone parents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We need to hear a little more about working lone parents. If we take the case of a lone parent who manages a family and works but who is disadvantaged as a result of that, such treatment is a clear breach of the principle of equality. How are disabled people and the self-employed who have lost their businesses faring? I thank the witnesses for attending. It would be good to get this on a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: In view of the comments of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, at the principal's conference, I call for a debate in the House with him on how teachers can manage an already overloaded curriculum of 11 subjects within an overcrowded day which includes the teaching of religion. His comments are regrettable. When he answered a principal who asked how one could...
- Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That was contradicted in the committee.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I read with some surprise in the Irish Independent today that in the case of people whose mortgages are in arrears and who die, their mortgage protection policy does not cover the amount outstanding on the mortgage. One should not hear this news at a time of a bereavement. This came to light in the circumstances of the sad case related to Priory Hall when Stephanie Meehan's partner passed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I say to Senators that they should not be afraid of reform.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We were elected to this House to be able to voice people's concerns at this time in Ireland, and to have a more positive and optimistic Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not a promotion it is a fact.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Fidelma Healy Eames: My question is as follows. How serious are we about reform?