Results 4,421-4,440 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: -----but one could be a proper politician if one could give one's opinion in a situation where there was no need for the Whip. We are here to represent the public and interpret what it wants. I do not agree that the people voted for reform of the Seanad. I never heard them say that. They voted to keep the Seanad, not to leave power in the hands of one Chamber. They were afraid of the...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I shall come to that now.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Sinn Féin Senators are lifted in here by their party and, with all due respects, Labour Party Senators are lifted in by their party but we have to compete. The Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Senators have a mega job to do when seeking election. I assure Members that it is very difficult for a Fine Gael person-----
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: -----or for a Fianna Fáil person to get elected to this House. Many hundreds of people have tried to get elected to the Seanad, from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, but have not succeeded. I am trying to enlighten the Senator and wish her luck if she seeks election.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: One must be burnished by the electorate, whether that is politicians or the public, to know what it is really like. I do not want to hurt anybody's feelings because I hate my feelings being hurt and they are regularly hurt here. I have a problem with the principle behind a Taoiseach's nominee which is enshrined in the Constitution. That is my honest opinion and I always like to speak the...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: -----Maurice Cummins will help me to get the two Bills that I initiated through the House. I think the parental leave Bill is on its way and is coming.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I hope that before I quit here we will get the mandatory retirement Bill on the agenda of the House.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I thank the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Have the Senator?
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I did not refer to nominations.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: The Labour Party has one on each panel.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: Labour Party Senators do not have serious competition within ---
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: They have to fight for the right to be the candidate but they have no opposition after that.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: The Labour Party selects one candidate whereas we can have four or five.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I did not dismiss them. I said ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I am privileged to have been appointed by Deputy Micheál Martin to the Taoiseach's commemoration committee for 2016. Because of illness, I was unable to attend many of the committee's meetings last year. However, I am now reinvigorated. We had a meeting last week, and last night our programme was officially launched at the site of the Easter Rising of 1916. This was an emotional...
- Seanad: Commemoration Planning: Statements (13 Nov 2014)
Mary White: I was shocked.
- Seanad: Commemoration Planning: Statements (13 Nov 2014)
Mary White: That is not possible.