Results 3,081-3,100 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: No.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I find mysterious the article of faith which the Minister for Finance keeps reiterating as he lauds himself and the Government for not increasing income tax rates. There is a coterie of people in the country who are willing to pay more income tax to try to prevent increased inequality between people at the higher and lower levels. In a true republicââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: We are speaking about the cuts with regard to lone parents, reducing the age from 14 years to 7 years and how it is prohibitive to lone parents returning to work. Will the Minister of State ask his party colleagues why it is such an article of faith that the Minister for Finance does not seem to be willing to consider increasing income tax for those at a higher level of income? I find it...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: It is for the party of the Minister of State. I cannot understand why the Minister for Finance will not increase income tax â big deal â he should increase income tax for people who are more well-off.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Sections 11 and 14.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I drove the issue over many years.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I have been a Member of this House since 2002 and in that period I have produced three publications. I find it very irritating at times as some of the new Senators think nothing was done in this House until they arrived. I produced two documents on a new approach to child care in Ireland. I drove the issue at parliamentary party meetings and my colleagues, Senators Jim Walsh and Darragh...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: It was during that time the Minister of State with responsibility for children was given a Cabinet position. The former Senator, Kathleen O'Meara, and I consistently pursued the issue. We are privileged as we have the highest birth rate in Europe, which is unique, and other countries are desperately trying to get people to have more children. These cuts will go against people having a...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: The Minister needs a few women to back her up.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: The one and only.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I support the appreciation by my colleagues of everyone but, after the savage budget, the Members do not realise how the public feel about politicians and the Government. People are very disillusioned with the latest budget. The elephant in the room is the unemployment rate in the country, which is 14.6% and rising all the time. Some 32% of young men between 20 and 24 years of age are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Senator Keane changed her mind about that subsequently.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Even those in the big fancy restaurant, as some Members called it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Mary White: He has never been in the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Mary White: I draw attention to the ongoing cuts in primary school education. I specifically highlight west Tallaght, including the areas of Fettercairn, Brookfield, Jobstown and Killinarden, where ten primary schools are designated as disadvantaged. The proposed cuts will result in schools in the area losing 25 teachers and 18 special needs assistants in a three year period. The area has ten special...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Mary White: The teachers in the particular schools are concerned that departmental officials never visited the schools.