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- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: I am delighted to welcome the Minister. His heart and soul are in the portfolio he has been given and he will make dramatic changes. The public sector has to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as the people who are out fighting in the market for market share. From my experience, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation needs to change its bureaucratic state of mind. There are...
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The Minister has to focus on indigenous companies and the contribution they can make. Irish people and politicians love to see multinationals establishing here, but they do not have much regard for indigenous companies. Enterprise Ireland is involved with such companies which employ 137,000 people, compared with foreign direct investment companies which employ 125,000. Indigenous companies...
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: It would be fatal to put the county enterprise boards under the aegis of the local authorities. I do not see why Enterprise Ireland cannot deal with companies with fewer than ten people. It has worldwide experience. That would be the right decision to make. In the context of our attempts to develop an entrepreneurial culture, it is a serious issue that the owners of companies that go out...
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: They are asking for personal guarantees. They are leading people up the garden path and when they get to a certain point, they want personal guarantees. The Minister will have to deal with that. The previous Government, which included my own party, failed to deal with Waterford. I pleaded with it to grant technological status to Waterford Institute of Technology. It is no big deal. We...
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The previous Government failed to support Waterford Crystal. It is imperative that the people of Waterford are given this chance. I was part of the campaign to designate Waterford IT as a technological university.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: I thought everybody had spoken.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The status of Waterford IT is a key issue at the moment. We need to make up for the failures of my own party with regard to Waterford Crystal. The Minister listened on the Hunt report.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: Can I just make a point on behalf of the county-----
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The Minister for Education and Skills listened on the Hunt report. My view is that politicians make the decisions. They might read the report and assess it, but they make the decision.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: It would be lethal. Local authorities do not have a clue. There is experience in Enterprise Ireland.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: That can be resolved easily enough.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Mary White: From what the Minister said in the Dáil, it seems to be low on her list of priorities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Mary White: That is a serious charge.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Mary White: There are a lot of them.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Mary White: In August, a shiver ran through the people of Leitrim, Roscommon and Longford when MBNA announced it would leave the international credit card business. Fortunately, tomorrow the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, will attend a meeting, along with the IDA head of financial services, Kieran Donoghue, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to find out why MBNA Bank of America intend to leave the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The driver for the Government must be to hold on to jobs and get us back to being a decent economy where we do not have emigration, people's hearts breaking and people's mental health suffering from losing a job.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Coveney, praised the previous Minister, Deputy Smith, yesterday for his work as Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Sep 2011)
Mary White: The Senator should be optimistic and show leadership.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.