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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I join my colleagues in wishing the Cathaoirleach well in his term of office. I support colleagues who spoke previously on the need for an urgent debate, if at all possible today, on Shannon. We live on an island. I live in the west. To trivialise the importance of Shannon to the livelihoods, the business and the tourism of the west as a matter of Belfast versus Shannon is not to know the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a central point. As someone from Galway who represents the west in the Seanad, I want to see livelihoods and business protected. I support the call for a broad debate on education and how schools are managed. Senator O'Toole referred to the initiation of a new black school, so to speak. This is a frightening way to describe it but that is exactly what has happened. Generally,...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to share my time with Senator Paschal Donohoe.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to address the crisis of confidence affecting breast cancer services and the way in which the HSE has handled this. I represent the west. The current realities for women with breast cancer living in the west are as follows: we have the worst health outcomes from breast cancer in the country; we are years behind the rest of the country; and a woman in the west has much less chance of...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She was in Dublin.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are discussing an entire region in the west.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No one disputes that.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We are not getting the outcomes.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to finish my point. A geriatric and stroke ward in Merlin Park Hospital has been hit and we also learned that 24 orthopaedic beds and 2,000 patients with painful hip and knee conditions awaiting surgery——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I want a wider debate on regional development. My question is whether the Government, in particular Fianna Fáil, has abandoned the west of Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If the answer to the question is "Yes" then it should stop charging us taxes at the same rate. We want the infrastructure and the services we deserve.

Seanad: Climate Protection Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is too little.

Seanad: Climate Protection Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I congratulate Senator Bacik and the Independent group for their courage and initiative in bringing forward this Climate Protection Bill. It is a Bill that one might expect from the Government rather than the Independent group, but there we go. The initiative is coming from this side of the House. There is now a real opportunity for the Government to show that it is serious about tackling...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Along with other colleagues, I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Science to the House to discuss an announcement she made in August. Many Senators know she plans that parents will receive reports on their children's progress in school at the ages of seven and 11. As the new spokesperson for education and science, I welcome this move. However, I would like her to tease...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Was that in 1937?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There will be a debate on this matter today.