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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Senator Noone should learn her history.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: HIQA has not recommended closure.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I am concerned about the cutbacks affecting one-parent families. I was shocked by this socially regressive budget and am still in a state of shock. I am sure the Minister is aware the CSO produced statistics on 13 November that show the increase in inequality of income between the better off and the least well off. There is no question but that anybody in a one-parent family is more likely...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I will just finish this point. There are 90,000 families in receipt of the one-parent family payment.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: As I said earlier, in my political career, this is the most socially regressive budget we have ever had. I am not being personal when I say that Senator Marie Moloney seems from her tone of voice to be happy with it. She is so informed that she feels relaxed about it. She is not irate——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I am just giving the Senator my honest opinion.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: The Senator appears to be very up to date with all the information, but she is too peaceful in her heart. She should be robust in——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: The total number of paid PRSI contributions needed to qualify for widow's, widower's and surviving civil partner's contributory pension will increase from 156 to 520 contributions with effect from July 2013.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I accept it was changed on Committee Stage. The change in eligibility is a penalty on the vulnerable young men or woman rearing young families. The latest survey on income and living conditions published by the Central Statistics Office shows an increasing income inequality between those at the highest level of income and those at the lower level. When a family loses one parent, that is a...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: The Minister will be aware that I am a fan. However, there is something radically wrong in the partnership in Government between Fine Gael and the Labour Party. Of the 15 people at the Cabinet, only two are women. I really think the Minister should give a kick in the shins——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: ——to some of the men to prevent them from adopting these regressive measures.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: There are only two women in the Cabinet. That is the reason this budget is so severe socially.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: For the benefit of my Seanad colleagues who were not here earlier when I spoke, the fact that there are only two women out of 15 sitting at the Cabinet——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: It is a long time.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: There should be a more equal balance in terms of equality between men and women in Government They are far more socially advanced in the Nordic countries. I find it extraordinary that the Labour Government was not willing to increase the levels of income tax for people earning a high income. That is beyond me.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I would prefer to pay more income tax rather than deprive a one-parent family of the money it will lose in these cuts. Reducing the age requirement from 14 to seven years——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: The cost of child care will prevent women from going back to work.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I am speaking on section 7 regarding the one-parent family cutbacks.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Mary White: A total of 98% of recipients of one-parent family payment are women. I did a newsletter on the budget in which I said it was anti-women and anti-family. Two of the eight measures taken were regressive. For the Members who were not here earlier, I stated that on 30 November the CSO, in a survey on income and living conditions, indicated that people on higher incomes were earning five times...