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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (24 Mar 2010)

Mary White: Dream on.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage. (24 Mar 2010)

Mary White: Job creation must be to the forefront of Government legislation at this time. The finance Bill includes measures aimed at attracting investment and improving our image as a place in which to do business. The new transfer pricing rules contained in the Bill will help multinationals to defend the level of income and expenses of their Irish operations. In this regard, the new rules can be...

Seanad: Banking: Statements (31 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary. Outside of the resolution of the banking crisis, the two most important issues for this country are the retention of existing jobs and the delivery of public sector reform. As these constitute part of the Minister of State's new brief, I wish him the best of luck. I know he will be extremely successful. My overriding concern during the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Mary White: In today's Financial Times Dr. Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank, commends the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan's statement on the plan to restore Ireland's banks to health. As everyone knows, the Financial Times is the most widely read newspaper in the world. The message Dr. Honohan's article sends to the international community is that in Ireland the path to recover...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Mary White: In the article Dr. Honohan acknowledges Irish workers and taxpayers. That pleases my heart because we all know that the people have been so patient and resilient. We have had a reaction to wage cuts which, in the case of lower paid workers, is easily understood. Sounding an optimistic note on the economy, Dr. Honohan states: "If the consensus view that Irish economic growth will resume in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: When is the Minister of State going to speak? Her speech will not be available until she speaks. I would like to know the position.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: The speech is available, but we cannot read it.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: We cannot get a copy now.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: I thank the Minister and congratulate her on spelling out to us what the Health Service Executive, on behalf of the Irish Government, has been doing and its awareness of female genital mutilation. It is only right that what has been happening would be put on the record. I agree 100% with the points made by Senator Twomey. In the environment in which this practice is carried out, women are...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: It was done because the Catholic Church believed the woman to be impure after the birth of a child. When my daughter was born almost 39 years ago I was lined up in the church by four other mothers. I asked what this was about and the priest said I was to be churched. I asked why and moved out of the line. There was consternation in the church. Again, it was ignorance and I have to say it...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Mary White: Next Tuesday representatives of the survivors of thalidomide will meet the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I am optimistic that after 50 years of suffering by the survivors of thalidomide, the Government will provide adequate compensation in due time and a sincere apology on behalf of the State on foot of the negligence of the then Department of Health on the issue. Dr....

Seanad: Fines Bill 2009: Second Stage. (22 Apr 2010)

Mary White: I congratulate the Minister and his officials for their tremendous work on the Bill which, as Senator Regan stated, is most welcome. I believe Senator Bacik is also supportive of it. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, for his visionary national initiative and proposal to break the stigma attached to mental illness over a period of two years. We are all behind him 100% in this work.

Seanad: Fines Bill 2009: Second Stage. (22 Apr 2010)

Mary White: The Bill is both necessary and timely, given the predicament in which so many find themselves. It will bring the monetary value of fines up to date by indexing all existing District Court maximum fines and increasing certain fines imposed by the higher courts. It will also give the courts the power to inquire into the capacity of persons to pay fines in order to implement a policy of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2010)

Mary White: On Sunday Fianna Fáil commemorated the 1916 Rising and the men who had given their lives for their country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2010)

Mary White: The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Hanafin, read the theme of the Proclamation in a stateswomanlike and exemplary manner, quoting the phrase, "We cherish all the children of the nation equally". At this time, representatives of the Irish Thalidomide Association are meeting with the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. I hope she has the vision and strength to...