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- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Mary White: I am talking seriously about the need for parity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Mary White: I know. We have to get parity for indigenous Irish companies and Irish entrepreneurs in respect of multinationals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: It is brilliant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: That is a fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Thank you Cathaoirleach. After my experience of child care over the past seven or eight years, I would like to formally say that today it is more chaotic than it ever was. It is very sad to see that stakeholders, parents and children are getting a worse service than they ever have. Parents are under pressure and costs are prohibitive. It is a diabolical situation and part of it is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I know that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: To cut to the chase, I congratulate my colleague who continued the very fine Fianna Fáil tradition of developing a superb policy paper on child care. Why are you laughing, Senator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Deputy Troy has done a superb job and I have written two policy papers on child care-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: The tragedy is that we spend three or four times more on third level education than we do on child care, when it is far too late. Before a child is born and from the minute a child comes into this world the money needs to go into developing the whole intellectual and emotional development of the child from day one. All the research shows that after two years it is too late. The children...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: It was not my phone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: The current lack of vetting will be a scandal in the future. Garda vetting is very limited. This is through no fault of the Garda, but the money must be invested in vetting. There will be a scandal in years to come over people who were not suitable to be minding children and who were not vetted properly. It is chaotic and is worse than it ever was. Senator Henry is wrong. Fianna...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I am making the point. It is pretty obvious. One does not have to say it. I am calling for full State responsibility-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I just want to say to Ms O'Connor that she misunderstood my point about entrepreneurship completely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I cannot wait, because I have to go to the Seanad, but I seriously believe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I was saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: It is my reputation and what I said. I said it should be possible for a female entrepreneur to share her 26 weeks maternity leave if she so wished, because one could not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: -----be an entrepreneur and not be back in work after three or four weeks. Ms O'Connor misunderstood. I feel passionately that fathers should also be involved, so we have a long way to go-----
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: Will copies of the Minister of State's speech be provided?
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: I need to follow the speech exactly.