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Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: As Fianna Fáil's Seanad spokesperson on older people, I enthusiastically welcomed the Government's recent fair deal initiative which will go a long way to ease the burden on families paying for nursing home care. I also welcome the development of a quality monitoring regime, introduced under the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA. The registration and inspection of nursing...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: The Senator should ask the people in the North about that.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: The Senator should ask Albert Reynolds about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: The Court of Auditors would be good enough for him.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: Remember the tax on children's shoes.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Business Plan: Statements (29 Oct 2009)

Mary White: Professor Patrick Honohan, who was recently appointed as the Governor of the Central Bank, has said that "with its fiscal, competitiveness and banking crisis, Ireland is among the most severely affected countries in the global crisis". Our banking system has been on life support since 2008, when the Government announced a two-year guarantee of the liabilities of the four Irish-controlled...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Last week the CSO revealed figures indicating that 106 people had died by suicide between January and March. This is the equivalent of one person killing himself or herself each day between January and March. These are frightening figures and it was dangerous for the CSO to release them without consulting the relevant scientific organisations dealing with the issue of suicide. Because they...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The Senator should speak for himself.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The Senator says that about everybody else.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The Senator is inclined to be holier-than-thou about it.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: It is crazy.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The leader of the Leas-Chathaoirleach's party called for this Chamber to be dissolved. I am appalled and ashamed that Senators who wish to speak on Northern Ireland are not being given an opportunity to do so.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The urgency with which this debate is being wrapped up is extraordinary.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I will not withdraw it.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Three Senators wish to speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I welcome the publication of the Health Information and Quality Authority's national children in care inspection report 2008. As spokesperson on children for this side of the House, I have raised the issue of children in care many times. Currently, there are 5,500 children in the care of the State of whom some 4,900 are in foster care. In a survey done in the Dublin south-west region the...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dick Roche. I congratulate him as one of the personalities who helped galvanise the voters and bring about a successful referendum on the Lisbon treaty. We are over that hurdle and I commend him on the work he did in that regard. His unique personality helps us win such major competitions and keep us on the road...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Mary White: For God's sake will you cop on?