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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: For God's sake.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Why is it not appropriate?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: I wish our friends in Scotland the best of luck in their fight for independence from Britain. Even if they are defeated, things will never be the same again. Scottish independence would be wonderful for Ireland and would bring a united Ireland faster down the track. I am a passionate believer in achieving a united Ireland by peaceful means. I listened to Senator Norris speak blithely of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: I have a problem with the revisionists who praise Redmond. We would have got home rule my eye; there is absolutely no way we would have got it.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The greatest honour of my political life was to be asked to give the oration commemorating Tom Barry's final battle with the British Army in County Cork. It is fascinating to note that Tom Barry would not have led that successful ambush if he had not fought in the First World War and learned battle tactics in Mesopotamia, as Iraq was known at the time. I and my colleagues in the Fianna...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The Civil Service is telling the Government what to do.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: I did not. The wife of Thomas Clarke, who was the first person executed by the British Government, said so in a recording-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: I was quoting Mrs. Thomas Clarke-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The woman said it in a recording broadcast on the radio the other day.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The World Health Organization published its first report on suicide prevention this month. The World Health Organization speaks for and addresses 193 countries. In her personal introduction to the report on prevention of suicide, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the organisation, stated: Despite an increase in research and knowledge about suicide and its prevention, the taboo and...

Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Mary White: That is what was promised in the local elections.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Mary White: I welcome chairman, Councillor Paul Canning and vice chairman, Councillor Hugh Hastings and Ms Carol Margey, manager. The cross-Border regions, particularly those along the western areas of the island, faced many economic difficulties. It is relentlessly on our agenda. The committee has to exert pressure on both governments to get action. The mission to promote cross-Border economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The committee would want to ensure that it listens to what is being said. The committee pointed out what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. I presented a map of the entire country and showed how barren is the road network to the north west area. The rest of the country is well served with roads. It is denying the human rights of the people in the north west that development of this road has not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Mary White: The county engineer is the key person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Mary White: It should be sent to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe. We should meet the officials from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport also. It is a very good idea to get the officials to come to the committee meetings on the A5 and N14 Letterkenny-Lifford road. The Chairman has written a very good letter. We are discussing this proposed road for more...