Results 3,561-3,580 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)
Mary White: I also second that proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)
Mary White: That is terrible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)
Mary White: It is disgraceful and does not augur well.
- Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him. It was very moving listening to Senators O'Keeffe, Landy and Kelly speaking about this frightful disease. I fought to maintain the public nursing home in Crooksling, which is close to Tallaght. We got a reprieve from the Minister, Deputy Reilly, but it was my first experience of seeing 80 patients, who suffer from Alzheimer's, in one...
- Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him. It was very moving listening to Senators O'Keeffe, Landy and Kelly speaking about this frightful disease. I fought to maintain the public nursing home in Crooksling, which is close to Tallaght. We got a reprieve from the Minister, Deputy Reilly, but it was my first experience of seeing 80 patients, who suffer from Alzheimer's, in one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I thank Mr. Dowling and his colleagues. It was most interesting to listen to them. I thank them for the contribution they have made to employees and employers in Ireland over the years but it is time to innovate, improve and simplify the system for all sides. We should have one body dealing with initial complaints instead of numerous bodies. I disagree with the important point of time...
- Seanad: Youth Unemployment and Public Policy: Address by Professor Christopher Pissarides (Resumed) (8 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I welcome Professor Pissarides. It is an honour to be in the presence of a Nobel laureate for the first time in my life. I am particularly emotionally moved because the prize in question was awarded for economics. Professor Pissarides is very welcome. I represent Fianna Fáil, which is the major party in opposition, on the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation of this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I welcome the delegation and have known Mr. Pat Farrell for some years. He has done a very good PR job for the banks and was faultless in his presentation showing everything is perfect with them. I am delighted to meet Mr. John Trethowan in person. He was the fair-haired boy for a while when he agreed with the banks. When he disagreed with them, he became a bête noire. I heard one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: The culture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I asked whether the banks reversed their decisions on the appeals upheld by the office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I was not here because I had to go to the Seanad Chamber. I also asked about transparency in accounting for the €3.5 billion. Why can we not know the breakdown of what is included?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I thank our guests for attending and for their excellent presentation. When reading newspapers, I always find the comments by Chambers Ireland interesting. I appreciate those observations. I agree with our guests regarding the action plan for jobs. It is aspirational and the high-profile announcements are deflecting attention away from the facts that more than 400,000 people are on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: I do not know what the Deputy is talking about. I am making a serious comment and he should be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: As Senator Quinn will concur, Government and Opposition parties in the Seanad agree on the issues of jobs, bank lending and the availability of money. We in Fianna Fáil were in office for most of the recession but we must stay on our toes and reduce the numbers unemployed. Unemployment is a scourge. There is a brain drain. I was disappointed to learn that county and city enterprise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: Naturally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: Ms Connie Doody and I set up Lir Chocolates in the late 1980s, following which I immediately joined the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It was an incredibly fruitful network for me. The former chairman of Superquinn, Mr. Vincent O'Doherty, was also a member at that time, which meant if I had difficulties on the ground with Superquinn locally I was able to speak to him about them and have them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)
Mary White: He got his education from it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)
Mary White: It was his uncle.