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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Mary White: The Minister should act.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I just think the Minister should act rather than talk and spin.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I have been dealing with this case very closely.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Mary White: The Minister is a brilliant spinner.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Mary White: This is terrible. What about Senator Hayden herself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I regard this issue as my priority. I thank Mr. Barry for arranging the signage indicating the ancestral home of President Obama in both directions on the road to Limerick. This means so much to the people in Moneygall and in the wider region. I applaud his decision. I refer to the sad fate of the Dublin-Derry economic corridor. I have spoken about this issue many times at this forum....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I return to the point I made about pre-planning for the Aughnacloy-Clontibret section, for which €1.5 million is to come from Monaghan County Council. In the whole scheme of things, that is a very small amount of money. We forget there is the money for the project in full. The first part of the sum is intended for pre-planning and a following amount for planning. A delay will hold...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: Who can decide that €1.5 million could be given to Monaghan County Council, either now or in the very near future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: What does Mr. Barry mean by construction projects? I am referring to deciding what the route will be. Farmers and others are involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: This committee is in place to implement the Good Friday and the St. Andrews Agreements. This is a total failure. I do not mean the committee is such but there has been a failure by the Government to get this small amount of money, even if there is a hold-up. It is appalling. I do not blame Mr. Barry personally but there is a lack of political will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I know that but I am talking about pre-planning. We really must ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to become engaged and see how imperative this pre-planning work is. It is not a big deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: The position remains that we must get the Minister involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economic Development: Discussion with InterTradeIreland (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I acknowledge the great work that InterTradeIreland does North and South. Another lady and I started Lir Chocolates in 1987. Mr. Hunter McGowan is correct. Our first exporting steps were into the North. It is a great experience to go into a different culture and jurisdiction. It is a different world and there are different ways of doing business. The professional culture in the North is...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Senator Hayden sounds like she is in opposition.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: I urgently call on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to account for her tenure and her presiding over the cuts to maternity benefit to Irish women. As I have said numerous times, we have a very unbalanced four-man committee running the country. I would like to ask the Minister to account for herself. One week before the budget the expert group on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: It is under the radar how the women have been cut. I do not know how Senator Gilroy can laugh; I am speaking in the House today for the pregnant women of Ireland and the future pregnant women of Ireland, whose maternity benefit is being cut by €32 per week for 90% of those who receive it. This means that the Government has reduced the collective maternity benefit payment by...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Irish women through the 1980s and 1990s came back to work to support the economy socially and economically and to help the economic development of the country when we were short of workers.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: However, the Government is penalising Irish women who are pregnant, who mind children and who come back to work after they have children.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: I would like to ask it, a Chathaoirleach, if you will allow me. Irish men work. Irish women bear children, come back to work and look after children. They have a much more demanding role than the men of this country and that is why I am on my feet today, to defend Irish women.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.