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- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: The Minister of State has a responsibility to look at the amendment again. I do not how he can reject it after what he heard from the Government side. I refer to the way Senator Keane spoke and how she expressed her knowledge of the situation. I have discussed this matter. I have been involved with this issue for three or four years and there are people in the Gallery who I have been...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I ask that he would not read through his papers. I will repeat what I said. I am not being rude and the Minister of State knows that I am very fond of him but I want him to listen to this. My sister was part of a team that delivered a baby in the largest maternity hospital in this city and following it she came to my house totally devastated that a baby had been delivered whose sex was not...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: Fair dues to the Senator.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I made that comment having regard to the number of Members in this House. It is not the first time that when it comes to serious issues that there are only women present to discuss them. We need more women here. Of the 33 members of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, only two are women. It is a hard station.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: We do not know; I was tempted to say today how many, but I am not going to. I plead with the Minister of State with regard to this issue. It is not a populist one. People are not out on the streets shouting and roaring that they want all this change to happen, but we have to educate the public about this issue in that there are people who have a problem because they are not happy in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I thank Ms Sinnamon for her presentation. I welcome all the witnesses and appreciate their attendance. I shall be honest with Ms Sinnamon by saying I would have liked her to be more specific. I want to know what we need to do to encourage more women into the sector and to achieve a more equal balance between the number of men and women. I wish to highlight another serious issue....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: Consider the scenario in which somebody becomes an entrepreneur. The economy is improving, so people will move from job to job rather than becoming entrepreneurs. We need more start-ups. If somebody goes out of business, he or she must pay social welfare and provide for all of the redundancy payments himself or herself. Despite all the talk about encouraging entrepreneurs, the point on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: What is that programme called?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: What else can we do to attract more women to act as role models?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I accept that Enterprise Ireland-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I did not mean the people out there; I meant the Departments of the Government, such as the Department with responsibility for jobs. I meant the people there, who are suspicious of entrepreneurs because of the negative things I cited about taxation and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: It is a big issue and people's knowledge-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: Through the Chairman, I note this is a cross-party Oireachtas joint committee. As members do not get any help on writing it up or anything like that, it would be great to be given what both witnesses have said. To be honest, I found what Ms Jean O'Sullivan is saying now to be more informative than what was in the presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: It takes a while for them to be published.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I know they are not. To conclude, what about the food industry? What support does Enterprise Ireland have for it? It is our largest indigenous industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I know but there are entrepreneurs in the food industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I refer to entrepreneurs in the food industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: What is the difference between what Enterprise Ireland does for potential food start-ups and what Bord Bia does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: Through the Chair-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)
Mary White: I know, but I am the one who was writing this and I would like to-----