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Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for providing a copy of his paper. I endorse what he says. The changes he is proposing, such as the establishment of the Low Pay Commission on a statutory basis, essentially take the politics out of setting the national minimum wage. It is very much in keeping with the dignity at work agenda which he is pursuing and complements work such as the...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Mary White: I need to get this onto the record. I will do it quickly, if the Acting Chairman will bear with me.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Mary White: Fianna Fáil believes that the Government should examine employer PRSI for those on low pay and consider giving businesses compliant with the national minimum wage increased incentives such as temporary PRSI reductions. In the UK, employers have been given a reduction in their social security contributions through the recent increases in the apprentice national minimum wage rate. The...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Mary White: There is a big gap.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I was privileged this morning to attend the press launch by SPARK, single parents acting for the rights of kids, announcing a major protest at 3.30 p.m. tomorrow outside the gates of Leinster House against the proposed savage cuts by the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, on one-parent families. This protest is in response to the most gendered cut in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart thank the 1916 relatives association for their persistence in getting the issue of Moore Street to the top of the agenda for 2016. I know for a fact that it was not really there. They were very difficult customers originally but now, given what I know, I compliment them on what they have done. Dick Roche, our then environment Minister, designated...

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I find it appalling.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: To me it is just a pub quarter. If Mr. Haughey was still around, he would have kept it in the spirit he intended but, as happens so often in Ireland, it was allowed to deteriorate and become an unattractive area to visit.In their innocence, people from abroad think it is a fabulous place and come to visit it, but it was not the intention of Mr. Haughey as Taoiseach to allow it deteriorate to...

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I wish to raise a point of order, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I wish to raise a point of order, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: I found it very disrespectful that the Minister of State was looking at his laptop all the time. It is not right.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: It was very disrespectful.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Mary White: The Minister of State should have closed his laptop and listened to people attentively. He is privileged to be in that position. Only one Member from the Labour Party bothered to speak.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Mary White: Is the Minister of State not accepting my amendment?

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Mary White: It is difficult enough to hear.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Mary White: It is not the Minister of State's fault. I believe a sufficient lead-in period should be made available in advance of the introduction of the new rate in order that it can be met in a planned way. I and Fianna Fáil fully support the Bill. My amendment is tabled in the spirit of strengthening the Bill. I wish to discuss the rationale for amendment No. 20. It states: In page 6, line...