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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear. hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Along with 600 other people, I attended a lecture in the Mansion House last Monday given by Dr. Craig Barrett, former chairman of Intel. Dr. Barrett spelled out the reasons why Intel invested in Ireland 20 years ago. We had a large and highly educated cohort of young university graduates and were competitive and bursting with fire to be the best in Europe and to escape our Third World...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I am a republican socialist by nature. I watched closely the Fine Gael Government of the 1980s. I feel very sorry for my colleagues on the Opposition benches because their leader cannot afford to blow it any more. I said to my colleagues today that if Fianna Fáil is given a chance in the next 12 months, we will be back as the leaders in government. This country's success to date has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: -----and to produce entrepreneurs who will produce the nanotechnologies and companies of the future.

Seanad: Proposed Emergency Funding to Greece: Statements (16 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for his excellent speech. Much attention has been paid to the economic crisis in Greece. This is understandable, for Greece has broken important promises and, apparently, committed fraud towards other eurozone members. The exact extent of fraud committed by Greece to appear euro-ready is still uncertain as new details are still...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I ask the Leader as a matter of urgency to invite the Minister of Education and Science to come and speak about the role of our universities in the life of the country in the 21st century. Dr. Craig Barrett, speaking in the Mansion House last week on education and competitiveness, spelt out the reason Intel came to Ireland 20 years ago was because of the high educational standard of our...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I refer to the former Senator, Deirdre de Búrca. I take a strong view about the matter to which she referred last week. I spoke with her many times about her desire to go to Europe——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I do not believe she would have spoken out as she did, had she received the appointment in the Commissioner's cabinet.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I do not believe her. She would not have done so.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I simply wish to make that point.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I seek the truth at all times. I call on our Leader, Senator Donie Cassidy——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Perhaps if former Senator de Búrca had been voted into the Seanad rather than appointed she might have appreciated it more.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I call on our Leader to call urgently for the Minister for Education and Science——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: ——to come to the House and explain his vision for the teaching of mathematics and science. A report by the national centre for excellence in mathematics and science suggests maths teachers in secondary school are not qualified to teach the subject. I am deeply concerned that some 35% of maths teachers are not qualified to teach the subject. Students at all levels of ability require the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: It is my pleasure to welcome our new colleague, his wife, family and friends. Having been born in Dundalk it is great to acknowledge that four Members were born in County Louth, which is 7% of the Seanad's membership. We are entrepreneurial and feisty and we have a tremendous and distinctive work ethic.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: The major challenge we face in the economy is to get the more than 400,000 people unemployed back into the workforce and to ensure the stability of companies that are wavering in terms of survival. We need the smart economy agenda. This phrase is bandied about and people do not understand what it means. The smart economy agenda is about increasing productivity throughout the economy and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Last week I called-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: -----for an urgent meeting with the Minister for Education and Science regarding the underperformance of pupils in Ireland in post-primary schools in mathematics.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: This is urgent and-----