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- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Search and Rescue Service (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This matter concerns the need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the available structures and funding sources available to support a new and emerging group called the Oranmore-Maree coastal search unit, whose purpose is to search for missing persons who may have fallen into the water in Galway city. Sadly, many people...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Search and Rescue Service (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am grateful for the Minister of State's reply. I neglected to say at the outset that when a person falls in the water there is a golden hour within which a person can be saved. Therefore, the more prepared we are and the more supports that are available to the Garda and others, the better. My motion is about saving lives. I wish to check what the Minister of State's said in his reply....
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Search and Rescue Service (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for his time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is no good, what about the rest of the Senators?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This may be our last session. We do not know.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. Last Friday afternoon I was quite shocked at what I found in Galway city. Retail is on its knees there. The reason I am shocked is that many people, including the retailers, view Galway city as being paved with gold. However, when the rent, the rates and the revenue are put together, they are creased. I am particular talking about small independent retailers....
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----and her story was replicated by many other retailers. She is now starting a campaign to reduce VAT on retail and I support her. There is good precedent; VAT was reduced for the tourism industry. When we reduced the VAT from 13% to 9% for the tourism industry, we kicked off the industry again. Let us do it for the retail sector. These people are contributing. On a good week, she has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is one for the Taoiseach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is an example of the dumbing down that was referred to earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a very good point. The notion of acknowledging prior learning is a very valid point. People have different life experiences and they have reasons to pull out at different times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I could not believe it when I saw the topic for today's discussion. I said "wow". I regret that I could not be present for the entire debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No. There must be a requirement for one meeting at a minimum. I know some students will be in contact with a lecturer for ever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If the lecturer takes the mentoring approach, he or she will be able to read the person. Not everything is foolproof.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a point of contact. I am well aware that there are those who do not show up for meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am suggesting a credit for the personal meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Through the Chair, all I am saying is sometimes we are trying to save some of our children from themselves. It is in the context of the overall person.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We can give a credit. One can get credit for attendance in some institutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That can be built in; we can find a positive way. We could ask Professor Sarah Moore's group to examine that matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not hear a comment on Professor Sarah Moore's group. Is it making a difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: At third level as well?