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- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Mary White: If elected to the Seanad, a Member must stand up and be counted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Mary White: As a party member, I take the comments personally.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Mary White: It is not common courtesy when the Senator criticises our party.
- Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Youth Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Mary White: I just wish to make an observation on the sexualisation of young women. I agree with what is being done in this regard. I cannot speak for the North with regard to third level education of men and women, but in Ireland significant numbers of women are entering third level of education. Increasingly we see young women speaking on political issues on television panels. We have a coterie of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Report on North-South Public Service Provision: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Mary White: I welcome Mr. D'Arcy to the meeting. I have to smile when I hear his name, because it has such romantic connotations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Report on North-South Public Service Provision: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Mary White: It is the name of the ideal man.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Report on North-South Public Service Provision: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Mary White: I thank Mr. D'Arcy for the excellent document he has produced. Of the ten areas he has highlighted, the first and fifth seem particularly relevant. We are all in favour of measures to support economic growth and jobs creation. I am particularly interested in the proposal regarding an all-Ireland tourism infrastructure research project. A concern for me in this regard is that the Northern...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Report on North-South Public Service Provision: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Of course. Fermanagh is such a beautiful county and the resort at which the meeting will be held is amazing. I would like to see a greater level of co-operation generally between the two tourist groups on either side of the Border with a view to enhancing the tourism potential in both jurisdictions. This committee supported funding for the construction of the Narrow Water Bridge in...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: We would not take ¤26 million from the respite care grant. It is incompetence.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Excuse me.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: On a point of order, we are living in a democracy.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: I have been elected to the Seanad three times. I demand two or three minutes speaking time. If I am not given time, I will quit the Seanad. I have never heard such nonsense.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: This is nonsense.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: On ?The Frontline? on December 10, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said a budget is there to serve the common good and one has to look at where there have been positive consequences, as well as unforeseen negative ones. In the case of the latter, he said one must have the courage to stand up and admit one made a mistake. This should be the case of the cut to the carer's respite...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: The Senator is a heroine of mine. When I was asked by The Irish Daily Mail who I had the highest regard for in politics, I said the Minister for Social Protection. I protested with the people on the streets against the cut to the carer's respite grant. I cannot understand why a lady of the Minister's intelligence could not find ¤26 million savings in another area out of a total budget of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Last year, the Minister for Education and Skills had the courage to reverse the DEIS cuts when thousands of children protested outside Leinster House with their teachers. Unfortunately, many carers are not able to hold such a protest. The Minister's future leadership of the Labour Party will be carved in stone if she has the courage to reverse the carer's respite grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome Professor Walsh and wish him the best of luck in his new role. I was privileged to study national economics under Professor Walsh, because prior to his return in 1980 the standard was not brilliant. The ordinary man and woman cannot believe the state the country is in, and the austerity programme that has resulted from this is a consequence of the behaviour...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Mary White: What about the big fees which the auditing companies receive and the information they are given by, say, the financial institution? What will change there?