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- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Margareta Wahlström (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Wahlström is very welcome to the House. I was attracted to the topic of her speech. Last summer I volunteered in Rwanda and, looking at Ms Wahlström's 30-year career, I see she was in situ during the genocide there. What struck me is that, while it is a small country the size of Munster, it has 11 million people and is very much at risk of drought. It is already a country...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Developed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Like everyone else I was stunned to hear of the child abuse prevalent in some child care facilities in the country and it is not acceptable at all. I have been a mother who entrusted her children to child care facilities. It is obviously not the case everywhere. In condemning the abusive practices that "Prime Time Investigates" revealed we should be careful not to condemn all facilities....
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am making a point and then finishing with a question. Basically, it is in a period of renewal. I believe it is right that we allow the Catholic Church to express its view and facilitate that expression on the issue of life, which is sacrosanct, and its failings on that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is more than fitting at this point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am struck by a report in today's Irish Independent detailing an industry finding that information technology graduates emerging from our third level institutions are not entirely fit for purpose. Employers found that their education was too theory based, did not include sufficient practical experience and that some of the computer languages they were learning were out of date. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is similar to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have one more question for the agriculture people, if the Vice Chairman is agreeable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are in the midst of the CAP negotiations. Do the witnesses favour reforms in production or in land ownership? We would like to see more coupling whereby productive farmers are rewarded. What are the witnesses' preferences?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Developments: Discussion with Bavarian Parliament (23 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The delegation is very welcome. Mr. Beuster is my neighbour as well so it is not the first time we have been in this setting. I thank the committee for the opportunity to be here and have this exchange. I will add a few words to what Deputy Durkan said about local government and then put one or two questions to the person in charge of youth affairs and the agricultural speakers. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is under threat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Would this be instead of FIS?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What percentage of such in-work benefits are a credit? Ms Loftus stated that over 50% of OECD countries use it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Why is there not full take-up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay, I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Loftus was in full flow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What if one is not paying it in the first place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: However, those are only supports for those who are at work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a key point.