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Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2012)

Mary White: I wish to address the proposed changes to the jobseeker's benefit, to which the Minister has referred. Where a jobseeker's benefit recipient works for part of a week the payment entitlement will be based on a five day week rather than a six day week. This means a number of conditions will apply. The basic premise is that if one's working week is reduced to, say, two days, up to now one...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: Fianna Fáil has driven the issue of Europe for 40 years.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: As some colleagues said, today is international labour day. The biggest challenge facing this country is the 435 people who are unemployed and who are not able to participate in the labour market. I see it as 435 individual challenges with which this Government must deal. It must provide jobs for the people. We need a proper and open debate with Ministers from different Departments and...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: Last week at a meeting of Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs, Senator Kathryn Reilly said everybody did not want to work in a multinational but I made the point that there is a multiplier effect. Every manufacturing job creates 2.5 indirect jobs while every service job only creates only 0.7 indirect jobs.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: I have a question for the Taoisaech.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: Yes. It is a question for the Taoisaech via the Leader. Last week I made the point that we cannot just talk about austerity. We need a commitment from this Government for an accelerated recovery programme. We must put on the agenda, in the context of this EU treaty, the plans for jobs and for accelerating growth in the country and not just talk about austerity. I ask the Taoiseach to...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)

Mary White: I want the Taoiseach to come to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: He is well able for it. He has ice in his veins.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: He has ice in his veins.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: The Taoiseach is discussing our future.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: What about barristers and solicitors?

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the initiative that Senator Power has taken with this Bill, which is fully endorsed by the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. Under the law as it stands, a school can claim that hiring a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender teacher could undermine its religious ethos. In 1993, the then Fianna Fáil Minister for Justice, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, decriminalised homosexuality. It is...

Seanad: Review of White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements, Questions and Answers (9 May 2012)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for that excellent presentation. I again congratulate him on his most well deserved appointment. The White Paper on Irish Aid, produced in 2006, was a seminal moment for Irish Aid development policy. We welcome the review of the White Paper as an opportunity to reaffirm Ireland's commitment to the aid programme and the core principles of that programme....

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Second Stage (9 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I commend Senators John Crown and Jillian van Turnhout and my Fianna Fáil colleague, Senator Mark Daly, on bringing it forward. Some 7,000 people die from smoking related diseases in Ireland every year. Anything we can do about this is to be commended. As Minister for Health and Children in 2004, the Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Micheál...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: At least he did not try to get rid of us.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: The Taoiseach has to accountable for what he has said about the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: Do not be so silly, Senator Landy.