Results 4,401-4,420 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)
Mary White: My colleague, Senator Jim Walsh, who is very active with various religious groups across the community in the North, has come down specially from the Seanad and would like to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)
Mary White: I have one other point concerning chairing the meetings North and South. It was raised the other day that we might have one meeting here and another one in the North.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Mary White: Fair dues to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Mary White: It gives me great pleasure to thank the Minister for Health for extending the free breast cancer screening programme to women aged between 64 and 69.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Mary White: Go raibh míle maith agat. It is a great victory for everyone involved and there was great cross-party support in the House for it. I am delighted because it is a victory for older women who are entitled to treatment and services at any other age. As I have said in the House on numerous occasions, women aged between 55 and 75 are at a heightened risk of developing breast cancer. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Mary White: All over the world.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Mary White: He is an elected Member of this House. The Senator should be respectful of him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Mary White: Is the Leader provoking us?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Mary White: On 21 November 2012, I introduced the Employment Equality (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012 to the House. The purpose of my Bill was to ensure that people cannot be discriminated against in the workplace on grounds of age. At the time we mentioned that we have many progressive legislative measures to ensure people in the workplace are not discriminated against on grounds of gender, race or...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Senator Bradford's party did not object to it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Mary White: It is not a silly point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Yesterday, I attended the funeral of Mr. Joe Walsh, a brilliant former Minister for Agriculture and Food who protected the country from foot and mouth disease. Mr. Walsh was a gentleman at all times under pressure and a personal friend. I look forward to the House being afforded an opportunity to pay proper tributes to him. On my way to Clonakilty yesterday, I received an emergency call...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I admire my colleagues for the sincerity of their views that the House requires reform. However, I must defend my electorate - county councillors throughout the country. With all due respect to Senator Katherine Zappone, I suggest she run for election in the near future in a Dáil constituency or the Seanad election. She speaks in a derogatory fashion about our electorate because we...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: It is.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I will not get involved in the Senator's election. A key change would be the removal of the Whip in the House. I find it very frustrating. It is not that I do not have allegiance to my party-----