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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Bureaucrats make the decisions.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for circulating a copy of this exceptional document with a handwritten letter. We have reams and reams of reports, some of which are boring and others very reasonable. The document before us is top notch and I am highly impressed with it. As a business person, I note it highlights the issues of importance to me. The Minister of State drew attention to the role...

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: It does not make sense. In this particular community in the city it is possible that five shops will go out of businesses on one little street and therefore the sense of community and the sense of place will be gone. I find it difficult coming here in the morning to buy the paper because all the small shops have closed. I used to hear my colleagues in Fianna Fáil going on about this over...

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The Minister of State referred in his contribution to the micro-finance loan and the temporary partial credit guarantee scheme. We have to get those working-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: As the Minister of State said, it is a great idea to take Mr. Moran, who is a rising star in the Department of Finance-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I would love to be with the Minister at some of those meetings.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I would like to do that because I love the area of small business, and Mr. Moran understands business having come from the private sector.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I congratulate the Minister of State on driving forward this document.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Small businesses are at the core of our economic sustainability in creating employment. In his report the Minister of State said that thousands of companies have gone out of business in the past three years and thousands of jobs have been lost.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: When people lose their jobs it creates severe mental problems. Last year, the department of health in Greece published statistics to the effect that there was a 40% increase in suicide between May and July of last year due to the economic recession there. It is important that we make heroes and heroines out of our small business people. When an Irish company expands-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: -----there should be excitement about it, not just the multinationals. I congratulate the Minister of State and wish him further success.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: On yesterday's Order of Business, I called for a debate on growing inequality in society. Ten schools in Jobstown, Killinarden Brookfield and Fettercairn in west Tallaght are designated as disadvantaged and in the DEIS programme which delivers opportunity in education. For the information of Members, and Senator Bacik in particular, the 2012 budget will see the Department cut DEIS...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I do not understand how one Labour Party Minister can propose cuts while another lobbies him not to implement them.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Why can we not be more efficient and more competent? If the Cathaoirleach would bear with me, I would like to let Senator Bacik know about the cuts in question.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The ten support teachers in the schools in question deal with children in the west Tallaght area who have behavioural and emotional problems.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I am referring to these schools because I am familiar with them.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Under the disadvantaged programme, they have improved literacy-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: One third of the children in the schools in question are from abroad and do not speak English adequately to participate socially.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The Minister is talking about cutting ten support teachers in these schools.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The Cathaoirleach is a gentleman and will allow me one last point. In west Tallaght, Travellers' school book allowances have also been cut.