Results 201-220 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Mary White: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the House to bring us up to date on the position of the Belfast Agreement? Yesterday I visited Alban Maginness of the SDLP, a member of the Assembly, and Patricia Lewsley. On being asked what message they wanted me to bring back, they said they needed to know a date for the election for the Assembly. We have to put pressure on the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Mary White: The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs should send a delegation to Iraq now.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Mary White: No, the Department of Foreign Affairs told me yesterday that it is not—

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill 2003: Second Stage. (14 May 2003)

Mary White: I want to discuss four points – the national minimum wage, insolvent companies, rebates paid to employers and severance packages. I know from listening to Senator Ulick Burke on many occasions that he articulates extremely well the trauma faced by people who lose their jobs. I agree with him that it is a traumatic experience. Senator McDowell seems to think there is a conspiracy among...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill 2003: Second Stage. (14 May 2003)

Mary White: In 1980 my husband won an award to carry out a study of what industry Ireland should focus on in the future. Fortunately, the American fund paid for me as well. We spent three and a half months studying many big international electronics companies in the United States. I wrote to my colleagues in the National Building Agency where I had previously worked stating that there was more socialism...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: The former Minister for Education and Science, Niamh Breathnach, who expediently introduced legislation to abolish university fees, lost her seat at the subsequent general election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: She did not earn political kudos. She did good work as Minister for underprivileged young people but the political expediency of abolishing third level fees meant that young people in the lower economic social group were not looked after. The abolition of fees was totally unjust. I have a serious problem with the fact that so many young people who enter the workforce following the completion...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: Anecdotal evidence suggests that many third level students abstain from attending universities and colleges once they receive their grant cheques. The Minister for Education and Science is correct to enter into a public debate on whether the legislation should be revised. I attended the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting this week and the issue is in good hands.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: I hope the Cabinet has the confidence to bite the bullet on this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: We are the republican socialist party.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Mary White: In some form.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: I think it will enhance the reputation of the food premises. I live in Dundrum and there is a takeway shop across the road from a public house. This Bill will clean up the whole street. Owners should feel responsible for their premises. I think Senator Terry's view is a little extreme. This Bill will help clean up society and make the streets safe. People should take responsibility for their...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: Under the intoxicating liquor Bill, the owners of public houses will be responsible for not serving drink to those who are already intoxicated.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: It will all happen over time. The pub owner will not serve the drink and hopefully people will not be falling out drunk into the street. The pubs may forfeit their licences and it is in everybody's interest. It is very important that the intoxicating liquor Bill is introduced as quickly as possible in order to back up this Bill.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: On Sunday evening I had the pleasure of attending Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú's oration in Crossbarry commemorating the ambush at Kilmichael on 21 March 1921 and it was an inspiration to listen to him. There was, however, a pub 100 yards from the site of the oration and it was pumping out loud rap music.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: It was not rebel music, it was rap music and it was blaring out of the windows, causing noise pollution in the whole area. I went into the pub and was met by a phalanx of drunks who were totally stocious at 6 p.m. a mere 100 yards from where Senator Ó Murchú was giving his inspirational speech. Directly across the road from the pub there is a beautiful Centra store. It closed at 6 p.m. and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Mary White: I call on the Government to add Lissadell House, County Sligo, to its portfolio of heritage properties. Lissadell was the childhood home of Constance Markievicz, one of the most remarkable activists produced by revolutionary Ireland. She was born into an Anglo-Irish family and lived a life of luxury and elegance at Lissadell. She is immortalised in the beautiful painting outside the Chamber,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Mary White: —and community groups in the Sligo-Leitrim area. Yesterday I received a delegation from Meánscoil Béal Feirste in west Belfast, the members of which are doing an examination in politics today in which there may be a question comparing the Seanad and the House of Lords. I learned yesterday that, thanks to the Leader, Senator O'Rourke, the Seanad meets twice as frequently as the previous...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Mary White: In our last debate I, as co-founder of a small business, told the Minister of State that directors really had to earn their money. Every penny spent by small companies is critical. From talking to others in business there seem to be serious problems with the compliance statement.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Mary White: Hear, hear.