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Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for his wide ranging and helpful contribution and commend him on his ability while appearing on television to explain in a common sense way what is happening in the economy and how we are doing our best to thwart unemployment and restore the economy. On behalf of the Irish Exporters Association I urge him to put in place a new international trade and investment...

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Along with Connie Doody I set up Lir Chocolates, a company which now employs 200 people. For 16 years, I worked on a 24-seven basis. Unless a company achieves sales, it will go out of business. Small and medium sized Irish companies need urgent assistance if they are to begin to export. They need stimulus measures that can be implemented immediately. The drive to develop the smart...

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Irish food and drink companies need to move away from being middle men or suppliers to focus on branding our own products. An interesting article in the farming supplement to today's Irish Independent reports: UCD's associate professor of public health, Paddy Wall, said Irish dairy products needed to be differentiated on a global level. "All milk is not equal and it does not have the same...

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Mary White: There is no reason why we cannot come up with new products through intensive research and development. Lir Chocolates, of which I am still a board member, has to develop 30 new products annually to hold and grow our market position. We are in an ideal situation because we know there will be major increases in the demand for food. I concur with the Minister of State's endorsement of...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I remember speaking approximately two years ago on the previous Bill on the issue of mandatory testing. The PARC Road Safety Group submission to Senators called for an amendment to the Bill on mandatory testing at injury collision scenes. Research published in 2009 carried out by Dr. Declan Bedford showed that 92% of surviving drivers involved in fatal...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I have already asked the Leader for an urgent debate on the impact of alcohol on young people. I refer to a document sent to me by Mr. James Doorley of the National Youth Council of Ireland, Get 'em Young: Mapping young people's exposure to alcohol marketing in Ireland. Young people's drinking of alcohol is a serious issue in this country. The figures produced in the research show that up...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Mary White: Read the Wall Street Journal.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I second the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. The two years between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year have been traumatic for those who have lost their jobs and for businesses trying to survive in the face of recession. The number of people in employment peaked at 2.1 million during the first quarter of 2008. According to the most...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: The National Suicide Research Foundation, NSRF, in its annual report, 2009, indicated that there has been a major increase in deliberate self-harm among Irish men since 2007, particularly among younger men. The increasing rate of deliberate self-harm is a strong indication that there will be an increase in suicide. As an acute observer of suicide, in line with the production of my document,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Why is the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, allowing cuts in acute services in hospitals for people who turn up in accident and emergency departments, having deliberately self-harmed. There has been a serious cutback in nurses in accident and emergency departments that are dealing with deliberate self-harm. On the one hand, we have an increase in suicide and the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Thirty times more money goes into road safety than into dealing with suicide. We have a national emergency-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: ------because the issue of suicide is still not being addressed publicly. We need to address it and open it up. It is the responsibility of the Government and the Minister for Health and Children. It is the responsibility of all to open up the whole topic of suicide and self-harming, and stop denying its existence. People are being tortured to death by the economic crisis, and the...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, which has cared for patients for more than 50 years, has a reputation for excellence of treatment and devoted care of patients that is exceptional. The Bill before Members provides for the dissolution of the board, which then will become the responsibility of the HSE and specifically of the national cancer control programme. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister. For those of our colleagues who were not present when Senator Ross spoke, he said that in all of his time here, Deputy Brian Lenihan was the best Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: He went on to say that his criticism was that NAMA had been led astray again by the banks. It will be interesting to hear what the Minister has to say in that regard in his summing up. We saw from the reports of Professor Honohan and Regling and Watson that there were serious inadequacies and failures in our banking regulatory system. The whole purpose of this Bill is that we would have...