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Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (13 May 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (13 May 2009)

Mary White: Hold on.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Mary White: A study has just been published on the quality of life of older people in residential care. Choice, privacy and a sense if identity are some of the requirements of older people living in residential care in order to maintain a good quality of life according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Researchers from the National University of Ireland Galway...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Mary White: I would like the new Minister of State with responsibility for older people, Deputy Áine Brady, to come to the House to update us on the strategic plan for older people. It is not just about the efficiency and running of nursing homes. It is about equality of life for older people. They should have a say in what happens to them. Their skills should be utilised by the owners of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Mary White: Our vision through this legislation should be to deliver a compassionate revision of the existing circumstances in which people who want to adopt children find themselves. It is cruel to prospective adoptive parents that they must hang on for between six and ten years for approval. This is totally unnecessary. I agree families must be scrutinised rigorously but if we can speed up the...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Mary White: My two colleagues were freely allowed to discuss it.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Mary White: They went on about it and I am entitled to do the same. We are debating the HSE's resources. The executive needs to become much more efficient and reallocate its human resources. It does not seem to have the ability of the private sector to manage. The next four recommendations in the Monageer report relate to gardaí reporting to their immediate managers, gardaí reporting to the HSE and...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Mary White: A sullied man now.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Mary White: He is still on the board.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Mary White: They are still on the boards.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Mary White: They got re-elected.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (20 May 2009)

Mary White: I have raised the matter of the competitiveness of Irish industry on numerous occasions in this House. Many Irish businesses are unable to compete abroad. It is scandalous that some Departments are not paying their bills on time. In many cases, invoices have to be reissued, which puts further pressure on companies that need cashflow. If a company does not have cashflow, which is the life...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (20 May 2009)

Mary White: Go raibh maith agaibh. However, I am afraid that I need to raise a further national scandal, namely, the attitude of the Health Service Executive to the treatment of children with psychiatric problems in adult hospitals. We have almost to become revolutionaries to change this diabolical behaviour. I am embarrassed by the HSE's treatment of young children. It is as if they do not exist or...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Mary White: I would like to outline my vision in this regard. This was a problem of social class. I would like to take this opportunity to call for the crimes that these young people were supposed to have committed, stealing a bar of chocolate for example, to be expunged. In the years in question, the district judges came from a superior class in society. We had a much more defined class structure...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Mary White: I said they are in care, not in institutions.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Mary White: I do not support my colleagues who called for balance in the context of the Ryan report. This is not the time for talking about balance but for talking about the Catholic church, an organisation that has totally and utterly failed its citizens. How dare anybody talk about balance. Anyone who reads the five volumes of the report will be traumatised. I do not believe anybody should speak of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Mary White: Balance will come when the perpetrators of these crimes are brought to justice by the courts for their crimes.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Mary White: Then, we can talk about balance.