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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Everyone needs exercise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. I am sorry I missed the contributions but I was listening to most of what people said on the monitor upstairs. I compliment the Chair on having this session. It could not be more timely and it is very much needed. I come from this sector. I like some things about the junior certificate reform proposals. I like the learning outcome statements relating to developing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The reason is early school leavers.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We debated the content of the syllabus, rather than the examination.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is little surprise in today's story in The Irish Times that our students who attend third level are mainly from prosperous areas, fee-paying schools and Gaelscoileanna. They are all advantaged in achieving that over children attending school in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. In this context I am worried about the Minister's proposal to replace the junior certificate with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would be delighted if the Chairman would circulate the response he gets regarding the feedback from Revenue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Thank you.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for his response but I am disappointed to hear what he says. I appreciate that he acknowledges the important work done and that his Department has an administrative role but I would not have brought this matter before the Minister today if I did not think that it needed a push. I feel that the team is battling many forces which are not visible because of the nature of...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Department have that role through the Coast Guard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As I am not a member of the joint committee, I am very grateful to the Chairman for facilitating me. I welcome Mr. Redmond and his team. Their presentations are always very clear. We enjoyed having them in Galway last year. We heard that the role of tax advisers is to assist clients to be compliant. That is a clear mission statement. At this time of year, I meet many people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will ask a number of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is highly laudable. I note there has been an increase in the number of tax audits on subcontractors or one-man shows, particularly those who are contracted to multinational companies. This creates stress. I did not know that one-man shows must establish companies to deal with multinational companies. In two cases that have been brought to my attention, the individual had to bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is revenue taking this feedback on board? In all of the cases I have come across taxes were filed in previous years. The individuals in question are concerned they may have underpaid, perhaps arising from mileage allowances or similar issues, and penalties may now arise. Penalties cause the greatest stress. Is it easy to secure a payment plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it easy to secure a payment plan where taxes have been filed in previous years but may have been underpaid? I refer in particular to contractors.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Mountain Rescue Service (20 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I ask the Minister to liaise with and support Galway city and county councils to ensure a base, as well as basic funding, is provided on the west side of Galway city for the Galway mountain rescue team. This, as the Minister may be aware, is a 999 emergency response service undertaken entirely by volunteers covering the Galway and Clare mountain ranges....

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is correct that it is not his money. It is not the Labour Party's money nor the Fine Gael Party's money. It is certainly not the money of Senator Bradford or myself. It is the State's money and that is why we want to give it back to the State now that we have left our parliamentary parties. I do not think anything could be clearer. To clarify what I meant about, as the...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We will agree to differ. There is an allowance-----

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is an allowance there. At mid-term or at a point in the Dáil or Seanad term, a re-think is needed when a Member is expelled or leaves a party. There should be some fair formula found to give the allowance to that person in his or her new status. As a mark of honour and good faith, we are saying that in our case - Senator Bradford and myself - we would like that allowance to be...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It makes no sense.

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.