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- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the proposal.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will respond.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Sure.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister back to the House. This is an interesting process. There is something fundamentally wrong and unfair about the way the business of party allowances is being done at the moment for Members who find themselves, often for very honourable motives, outside the party Whip system in the middle of a term. We want the Minister to think this one through and come up with a way...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: May I raise a point of information?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: A point of order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Leader confirm we will have pre-legislative hearings on the Companies Bill?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the call by Deputy Mary Ann O'Brien on the need to examine the system that is being used in the United Kingdom to combat online child pornography. It is very urgent and serious and Senator Mary Ann O'Brien put it very well. I also support Senator O'Sullivan's call for a debate on abandoned horses. I am doing some work in this area. It is costing the State up to €3...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what the banks need.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Sean D. Barrett's comment that we need a reform agenda now that we are out of the bailout programme. That is the raison d'être of the Reform Alliance. I call for a debate on whether members of the permanent government, including the senior civil servants who work side by side with Ministers, should be on permanent contracts. I question this. It is a deep honour to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The banks are dependent on the State.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (13 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have heard what the Minister of State has had to say but we have an opportunity to make even more progress. As he said, the quicker we are out of this, the better. We will not solve the problem completely but there is a missed opportunity here, as written in the reply. It states: The code of conduct on mortgage arrears makes clear that banks can commence legal proceedings in respect of a...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (13 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Central Bank can do more.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (13 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I hope so. I am watching it.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (13 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Tá fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, who is the right man for this Adjournment debate. He is not quite the Minister for Finance but he is in there with a shout. This Adjournment debate concerns why the Central Bank is not using the mortgage arrears resolution process, MARP, as an instrument to benchmark against how the banks are doing to help customers in arrears reach a mortgage...
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (13 Nov 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.