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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I want to say something about that.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Yesterday, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs heard a presentation by the Irish Farmers Association and An Bord Bia. The Irish farmers representative, Mr. Henry Burns, who is the chairman of the sheep producers in Ireland, told us yesterday that farm incomes fell by 13% in 2008 because of low prices for milk, beef and grain, and by a further 20% this year, which is frightening. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Tá áthas orm a fheiceáil go mbeidh an nuachtán Ghaeilge, Foinse, thar n-ais amárach. Ba chóir dúinn go léir an Ghaeilge a úsáid — beatha teanga í a labhairt. Is mór an cabhair dúinn nuachtán Gaeilge a bheith againn, chun é sin a dhéanamh. Cuirfidh mé fáilte roimh athbheochan Foinse amárach.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I support the praise for Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. She is a trailblazer for women and was the first woman appointed to Cabinet since Countess Markievicz a long time earlier. Please God, she will get a tremendous brief. I would like to know what Senator Bacik meant when she said it is a pity it is a Fianna Fáil woman. I do not know what she meant by that.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Mary White: I would like to know what she meant by that.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

Mary White: The Fianna Fáil women are formidable women in the image of Gráinne Mhaol. I put myself in that league also. TáFoinse againn in the Irish Independent, which is really exciting. It is important to speak Irish every day - beagáinín Gaeilge gach lá. On a serious matter, we have had very robust debates on many different issues at Oireachtas committees in recent weeks. I feel we are...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Over the past year the Irish Farmers' Association and the Irish Exporters Association have called for a State supported short-term export credit insurance scheme. I raised this matter on the Order of Business last week and, subsequently, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment informed the IFA and the IEA that it would not provide this insurance. I call on the Minister to publish...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

Mary White: Go raibh maith ag an Treoraí.

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (3 Dec 2009)

Mary White: Ms Justice Yvonne Murphy's report highlights the culture of secrecy and the covering up of sex abuse scandals in the Dublin archdiocese. Archbishops of Dublin did little or nothing to protect children from paedophile priests. The record of collusion and cover-up and dereliction of duty by church and State authorities is beyond belief. Thousands of children raped and abused by Catholic...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Mary White: I support Senator O'Toole's call for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to come to the House to talk about the state of relations with Colombia, including free trade agreements. I visited Colombia seven times on a human rights mission. The Red Cross has stated the system in Colombia borders on totalitarianism We must get our relationships in order. I am not impressed by the smirking of...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Mary White: It is disrespectful because anyone who engages in the pursuit of human rights always faces problems from those who hold a different view. I call for a debate on the inquiry in the Dublin archdiocese. Last night the discussion was guillotined and I call for it to be urgently renewed, bearing in mind the words of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern. He has...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Mary White: I was not talking about Senator Buttimer.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)

Mary White: That is an outrageous statement. A person is presumed innocent until found guilty. How dare the Senator? We live in a republic, a free state, not a totalitarian state.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Mary White: As my colleagues are aware, I produced a document on suicide levels in the new Ireland last year which examined the numbers and provided an analysis of the reasons for and causes of suicide on the island as a whole. Last October the European Journal of Public Health launched a document by Dr. Paul Corcoran of the National Suicide Research Foundation in Cork. I ask my colleagues to desist...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Mary White: It really is very poor. They should all be separated and should not be sitting beside one another. Then they would not be tempted to talk.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Mary White: The matter I am raising is serious. Every year 10,000 people - men and women - are widowed. The harsh reality revealed by this new study by Dr. Corcoran is that a widowed person is twice as liable to die by suicide. This is the first time a study of this nature has been conducted in Ireland. It would be a simple matter for the local community or health nurse to visit a person who has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Mary White: On a point of order, I ask the Leader of the Opposition to control her group.