Results 2,721-2,740 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2011: Second Stage (19 Jan 2011)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister and compliment him on introducing this most important Bill. In his entire political career he has been innovative, entrepreneurial and different in his activities as Minister and I wish him the best of luck in his new career. The Bill provides for the early introductin of mandatory alcohol testing at the scene of all road accidents and collisions where someone is...
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2011: Motion for Earlier Signature (20 Jan 2011)
Mary White: I thank the Minister of State and his officials and wish him and the Senators present good luck in the forthcoming election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: The Senator must be joking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: We love a bit of competition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: The front page of the The Examiner today carries a story on the increasing incidence of suicide among the elderly, while page 2 of The Irish Times carries the headline " 'Growing trend' of suicide among older people". How many times have I mentioned this subject in a passionate way? At the Joint Committee on Health and Children I pleaded with the former Minister for Health and Children,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: A Boeing 747-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: Will the Clerk of the Seanad, please, let me make this point? I have been elected.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: If a jumbo jet was to crash in this country-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: I am making the point clearly. If a jumbo jet was to crash in this country and 524 people were to be killed, what would be the result?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: A total of 525 people died by suicide in Ireland in 2009.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: For God's sake, why are we not doing something about the matter?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: We swept it through the Seanad.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear. Well done to the Minister.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: We never touched our forelocks.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: By nature I am an optimist, but I shudder daily when I hear the negative and doomsday language from almost everybody on the other side of this Chamber. I do not know how as politicians, whose natural inclination should be to inspire hope in the electorate and the people of this country, they can verbalise and utter such brutal words regarding the disastrous state of the country. If they...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: The figures for the last quarter of the year are very encouraging, because there has been growth in GDP and GNP. The recovery is being driven by the export sector, underpinned by the significant improvements in competitiveness that have taken place. As the Minister said this morning, the private sector drove the improvement in competitiveness in the markets and the Government drove...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Mary White: Would the Cathaoirleach mind asking our colleagues not to be speaking while I am speaking? I listened attentively to them.