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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can we address the subject at issue - history?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the broader curriculum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Who will decide? Will it be the principal or the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I hope today's discussion will form part of the work of that committee because unless history is included to match further statements of learning, it is on its way out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Naughton only mentioned statement 8.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Chairman started where I wish to continue. We have a dilemma. The history teachers of Ireland seem to want one thing. Could the Department say what it has achieved from this session in terms of how we can marry the different concerns? I refer to the statements of learning. Can we broaden the number of statements through which history can be achieved? Who decides that? Is it the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the objective to achieve the statement of learning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Chairman, I must clarify this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can Mr. Mac Fhlannchadha see that if history is not offered, neither a student nor a school would try to achieve a particular statement of learning through history?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It makes the teachers less relevant too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the delegations. It is great they are here making this very strong pitch for history. Given the fast moving world in which our youngsters live, there is a real danger that they are looking at everything in the here and now and that they are losing the context of our past and present which will inform the future. Does the HTAI see merit in the statements of learning produced by...
- Seanad: European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I add my words of welcome to Castlerea national school. They are very welcome. The Minister is also very welcome. We are adopting the right approach to welcome Croatia immediately into the labour market. I am a member of the Joint Committee on European Affairs and I am quite friendly with the Croatian ambassador to Ireland, Jasna Ognjanovac. She is a very forward-looking woman and she...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the Leader on that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Feargal Quinn's call for a debate on third level education before the summer. I flagged this issue with the Leader two days ago. The proposed reorganisation of third level education is big news, involving the creation of three new technological universities. I bow to all those who have worked very hard in making the case for Waterford Institute of Technology. They are...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It still was not implemented then.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is an outcome.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House, and I welcome the report. It is a significant document, supporting students with special educational needs in schools. I commend Senator Mullen on tabling the motion because it has given us time to reflect on its content. I note Sydney Blain is now chair of the NCSE.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: He spoke about the broad consultation used to compile the report in 2012. Every adult possible was consulted but children and students were left out, which was a mistake. I did research a number of years ago on children with dyslexia whom I had taught a number of years earlier. When one is teaching in the classroom one knows it is very important to vary instruction in order that one does...