Results 3,001-3,020 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: This is a serious issue.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: The last day the Minister was in the House I said that, in principle, I agree with what he is doing in that we need fresh clear water.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: Currently, the local authorities enforce-----
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: The greatest polluter of drinking water is the pumping of sewage. County councillors have been part-----
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: Polluting drinking water by pumping sewage into rivers, lakes and the sea-----
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: A large proportion of it receives no treatment whatsoever.
- Seanad: Health Awareness and Physical Fitness: Motion (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: I heartily congratulate Senator Eamonn Coghlan on the introduction of this motion. I assure everyone that Fianna Fáil will be 100% behind Senator Coghlan. I am delighted the Senator's family is present to witness his contribution to a debate in the important Upper House of the Oireachtas. It was a Fianna Fáil Minister in 2007 who was the first Minister in the world to introduce a full...
- Seanad: Health Awareness and Physical Fitness: Motion (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: On a point of order, we will be supporting the motion. The Senator probably was not here at the time.
- Seanad: Health Awareness and Physical Fitness: Motion (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: Fianna Fáil is supporting the amendment.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Mary White: The Minister requested that the Senator speak in both languages.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: It was a great pleasure to listen to our Donegal chieftain, Senator Brian à Domhnaill, having those opposite on the run.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: Let us see what happens in the Dáil and the expediency with which this Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 will be passed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: I find it amazing that the rural Senators opposite so strongly support this Bill. They should take care if they plan to run for the Dáil in the future as the people have long memories.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: I refer to a serious issue which I have brought to the House's attention over the years. I published a document in 2008 entitled, What we can do about suicide in the new Ireland. I am sure everybody is aware that Gary Speed, the former English premiership soccer player and the manager of Welsh soccer team, hanged himself on Saturday night.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: -----after participating-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: -----on a BBC soccer programme. His family said there was no discontent.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: Will the Seanad novices keep quiet please?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: I want to raise a very important issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Mary White: We need to have a serious talk in this Chamber, as we have had in the past which the new Senators-----