Results 4,001-4,020 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I know that.
- Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2013)
Mary White: That is good.
- Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2013)
Mary White: At present interest rates are very high so we must help people to get going. As I said here this morning, we cannot just rely on foreign direct investment and must encourage indigenous business.
- Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I ask the people from the Department to please excuse my next comment. The trade finance initiative is a weaselly bureaucratic statement and meant nothing but encouraged the European Investment Bank to invest. The initiative is pure discussion. If one did not know anything about the matter but read the statement, one would think that something was happening. The initiative did not promise...
- Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2013)
Mary White: Tomorrow morning I shall lead the debate and raise the matter on the Order of Business. Finally, I wish the Minister of State the best of luck.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I would like to raise again the very serious matter of the Irish-Russian adoption crisis about which I spoke last week. Last evening, Ms Lisa Fennessy and her husband Michael, and Ms Marie Hunt, representing the Russian-Irish Adoption Group, met with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to seek the Minister's help in resolving the Irish-Russian adoption...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: There is no break down of the tax package in the 25 measures, many of which are illusory. The Government initiative is that discussions are taking place with the European Investment Bank to consider the feasibility of support being granted by the bank. That is beautiful bureaucratic language. How about that for a classic piece of non-action and gobbledygook? I am greatly concerned by the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: People were beaming in the House yesterday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: It is not. I looked. I saw the body language.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I saw the body language.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I did not criticise it. It is carrying the can for the budget on jobs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: The 25 measures are sitting on the back of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: We will be tracking how many.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: We will talk about it again next week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: The opposite will happen.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Mary White: The two-day mentoring programme is needed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Mary White: I raise the very sad fate of the Dublin-Derry economic road corridor, speaking as a member of the committee on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, and as a passionate supporter of economic development North and South for the peace of the country. The reallocation of £115 million that was due to be spent on upgrading the Northern Ireland section of the Dublin to Derry...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Mary White: As a result of the lack of action by the Northern Ireland Government and the Irish Government, the completion of this crucial economic corridor between Dublin and the Border counties and the north-west region of Donegal and Derry remains firmly in limbo.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Mary White: Their qualifications to run the country should be questioned.