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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: .... After the Bill has been enacted, how soon does the Minister of State envisage Ireland ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities? I have spoken to Professor Gerard Quinn of NUI Galway about this and he told me it is almost ready to be ratified but I seek the Minister of State's answer in this regard. This is a reforming Bill on which I congratulate the...

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...next election because there has been a firm promise in place that this would happen. Dr. Manning may be able to clarify for me how the new university groupings are to work together. For example, NUIG will work with St. Angela's College while DCU, Marino Institute of Education and St. Pat's form a grouping. I do not have all the exact groupings. Given that some of the colleges within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...from them. A good internship is a fantastic experience for those involved. The Chairman might consider my next question to be a little off the point, but it is very relevant in Galway. NUI Galway has received a great deal of public funding during the years and developed a very fine campus, much of it built along the River Corrib by virtue of its location. Now, however, there is a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...be decided by democracy in here, by a voting system. There is much wrong with this Bill. One of the key problems has been pointed out by Senator Barrett. It is wrong that university voters from NUI panels and TCD panels outside this jurisdiction do not have a vote on whether this House should be abolished or not. There is something fundamentally exclusionary and undemocratic about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion (12 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: .... Yesterday the Western Development Commission was here to showcase businesses from the west of Ireland which have been funded with seed capital from the commission. One of the businesses is linked to NUI Galway and another is linked to GMIT. Both businesses are in the job creation sector and both have created jobs. However, the institutions are given no credit for having created jobs....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...parents. Some of these kids are just hanging on and we must remember they are only 18 or 19. This is not the first time this has happened as we have had backlogs previously and, for example, if NUI, Galway received confirmation from the student grant office the students' places would be held and they would be allowed into the library. Have these interventions been made? Why were...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...the agenda of the Seanad. Following the visit the Leader should arrange a major debate on how relations between Ireland and China are being advanced. On 23 March I am due to host a conference in NUI Galway on this very issue. This story-----

Seanad: Springboard Initiative (5 Oct 2011)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. At the outset, I wish to say how productive I found our meeting yesterday when the Minister briefed us. I am pleased he is a genuine listening Minister. I am now asking him to listen to this case also, which is an unusual one. The person concerned has been to see me a number of times and is at her wits' end. She can get similar programmes funded elsewhere...

Seanad: School Equipment (19 Oct 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...,000 a year when loss of earnings, hospital fees and bills for other medical treatments and supports are added up. The calculations were part of a two-year study by the Centre for Pain Research at NUI Galway, which found one in three adults contacted through general practitioner surgeries suffered chronic pain and had been in pain for an average of seven and a half years. Back pain was...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (24 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...in the sciences. Half of our teachers do not have a qualification in mathematics, yet it is meant to be the cornerstone in building the country into a knowledge and innovation economy. The NUI office has been abolished, which will affect our iconic brand internationally. One in six children leave school early. The cut in teacher numbers has led to an increase in the pupil-teacher ratio...

Seanad: CAO Applications and College Places: Statements (10 Feb 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...science or mathematics. I look forward to the report of the higher group but it was a bit much for the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to deliberate on the closure of the NUI office in advance of the higher level group presenting its report. The key to economic growth, in this country or any other, is investment in human capital. When the IDA sells Ireland,...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is doing a bad job. There are two main reasons which I will highlight. He is undermining the value of our degrees at home and abroad by proposing to abolish the NUI. This has serious implications for Ireland as a country. Two of my degrees are from the NUI and have served me well at home and abroad, as they have served many other graduates. For €1...