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Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: I am exhilarated and excited this morning. My colleagues in this House and those in the previous Seanad know I produced two documents on early child care and education. I am an action woman and I look for delivery of my projects. I am delighted——

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Excuse me, Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: From next January, we will have universal free education for every three and four year old who wishes to participate.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Many cannot afford to pay the cost of child care, whether in a crèche or a nursery. From next January we will be doing what the 1916 Proclamation said, to cherish all our children equally. Every child who is three years and three months will be able to attend a community crèche, a private crèche or a Montessori school. The Government will pay the fee for three hours per day for five...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: To the colleagues who are saying there is nothing in the budget, I point out that 70,000 children will be eligible for free preschool education.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Elder Abuse: Statements (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her excellent and wide-ranging speech. I compliment her on the seriousness with which she has taken her ministerial role with responsibility for older people. At the time of the 2006 census, approximately 500,000 people living in Ireland, or 11 % of the total population, were over the age of 65. The number of older people is expected...

Seanad: Elder Abuse: Statements (8 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Peter Sutherland's presentation this morning on the news was a rap on the knuckles to the party with which he is affiliated, the Fine Gael Party. The Opposition has been giving very poor leadership and drawing international attention to the problems the country is facing. It is a rap on the knuckles——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: ——by Peter Sutherland to the Opposition, particularly Fine Gael——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: It is very important. We are in the middle of a serious crisis, a world crisis and a crisis in our own country but it is a challenge and an opportunity to show the world that we can pick ourselves up and get going again and be a role model for the rest of the world. Confidence is more important than gold. That is what Peter Sutherland was talking about this morning. Everyone knows I am a...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: ——and I sincerely believe that the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, is now leading the country out of what appears to be an abyss. I have confidence that there is a change happening.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Someone else who gave a rap on the knuckles this morning as reported in the Irish Independent was Tony Blair, whom I dearly support because of his leadership on the North. He said the Catholic Church would want to address the issue of homosexuality and to get its act together.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: I take issue with the Catholic Church on its attitude towards gay and lesbian and heterosexual people. It is about time we had a proper debate——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: ——on the human rights of human beings. We had speeches this morning and reference to stem cell research and euthanasia. I am for every person who is born to have a right to deliver his or her potential. I want the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Mary Coughlan, to come to the House and spell out how we are going to get jobs for those who have lost...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: ——by losing their jobs. I want to see people out of poverty. We became a country to which people came as immigrants because we had employment. I want us to get back to that and I want to talk about the living and ensure they have a decent life and fulfil their potential. That is the reason I said yesterday that I applaud the Taoiseach and the Minister of State with responsibility for...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.