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Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Mary White: In my capacity as spokesperson for older people in the Seanad — everyone knows I produced a policy document on a new approach to ageing and ageism — I call for an urgent debate on the issue of mandatory retirement. It is archaic and out of date. I succeeded in having included in the programme for Government in 2007 that people would have a choice about when they retired. Older and...

Seanad: Code of Conduct for Civil Servants: Motion (12 May 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Code of Conduct for Civil Servants: Motion (12 May 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and the Green Party motion. I was a civil servant in the Office of Public Works and the long tradition of integrity in the Civil Service is an asset to be acknowledged and has played a big part in the progress of the country since independence. It is equally important to support procedures underpinning and protecting that tradition of integrity and public...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: For the first time ever.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I have just received a copy of the latest bulletin of the National Suicide Research Foundation which informs us that from 2003 to 2008 some 63,000 people presented themselves at accident and emergency units having deliberately harmed themselves. Most of the self-harming incidents occurred on Sundays and Mondays. The bulletin suggests this is due to binge drinking, which affects cognitive...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I also welcome Mr. Paisley and Baroness Paisley to the House. I must advise him that I am driving an all-Ireland inspirational life award for older people and how they enhance all our lives. Mr. and Baroness Paisley would no doubt be very welcome and appropriate winners of my all-Ireland award. I would love you, Mr. Paisley, to come back again and address us here in the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I want to raise the matter of alcohol consumption in Ireland. According to a recent European survey, the Irish nation consumes 20% more alcohol than our European partners. A recent survey also indicated that 42% of boys and 44% of girls aged between the ages of 15 and 16 years had a binge drinking session in the last month. I call for an urgent debate on why Irish people drink more than...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Mary White: The WHO a month ago launched its strategy on reducing alcoholic consumption. I am calling for a debate on this because one of its new strategy features is to reduce alcohol marketing to young people.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Mary White: We are indebted to the comments by Dr. Michael Somers last Saturday on the "Marian Finucane" programme. We have received two excellent reports on the financial crisis. However, had Dr. Somers not had the courage to speak out and dare criticise the Department of Finance, this issue would be under the political radar. I have personal experience of dealing with officials in the Department...

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Scoping reports.

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Just looking into it slightly.

Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the reports for their frank and direct analysis and conclusions. They reflect some of the down sides of being a small country where decision makers and influencers meet and know each other. The Honohan report refers to an "excessively deferential and accommodating" regulatory approach and comments that "rocking the boat" and being prepared to "spoil the party" would have required a...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Mary White: It is an important moment to remind ourselves that after the partition of Ireland in 1921 the Catholics were discriminated against in housing, jobs and justice, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was killed off by the events of Bloody Sunday. Yesterday, I listened to the live speech by David Cameron on BBC in my office. It was a momentous event to see and hear a British Prime...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (16 Jun 2010)

Mary White: It is an opportunity.