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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: With all due respect, you should have got the others who spoke earlier to stick to the two minute time limit.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, said she believed Big Phil was making arrangements in order that the money could be paid at the post office.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Okay, Minister Phil. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, said on radio that people liked to get bills.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: My point is that the people are totally confused because of the lack of team work and efficiency in encouraging them to pay this tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: She gives it but does not like to take it.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: We had a very far-reaching discussion on the Bill in the previous Seanad. It did first class work and on behalf of my colleagues I fully support it.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: I move amendment No. 2: After "at this time"' in the third line to add: "— criticises the Government's ongoing failure to address the lack of credit available to SMEs. — notes that the Government has completely abandoned its pre-election and programme for Government promises on addressing upward only rent reviews; and — further notes that the Government parties, the Labour Party and...

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Government Departments are the worst offenders.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The Senator's mother also was an entrepreneur.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The Government must walk the walk.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: I draw the attention of the Leader and Members to a banner headline in The Irish Times today. Mr. Eoin O' Malley, who is billed as a teacher in Irish politics in Dublin City University, has written an article. Its banner headline proclaims: "Mahon just another nail in coffin for dying Fianna Fáil."

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The subheading helpfully adds "There is no hope for the once dominant party". As an interested party and vice president of Fianna Fáil who is committed to the party's renewal, I have read and reread the article to find a context for these funereal conclusions but failed to find these statements in the article. In searching for a possible explanation I wonder if the editor of The Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----these words from the author's submitted article. Could it possibly be the case, as far-fetched as it might be, that the responsible editor of The Irish Times added the forecasts of doom-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----on his own initiative, expressing a wish for an outcome? If that is the case, I regard the newspaper's action as inappropriate-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----to use a word favoured by the Mahon tribunal. Reports on the demise of the Fianna Fáil Party are entirely premature.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: It would be great to have the Taoiseach here.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2012)

Mary White: Feisty.