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Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Mary White: It is a fact.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Mary White: It is an aphrodisiac.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I accept the logic of that but we do not have time to wait.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: The imposition of the property tax was a political decision by this Government to break its pre-election promises. It was not written in stone by the European Union and International Monetary Fund. The local property tax has not been about the provision of improved local services, particularly as approximately 30% of the revenue collected in 2014 was diverted to Irish Water. Fianna...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: The amendment states:Where a liable person is obliged to pay an annual management fee in respect of a relevant residential property and said management fee is paid in full, then such person shall be exempt from having to pay part of his or her local property tax in a relevant year, the amount of that part being any of the following:(a) equal to one third of the management fee; (b)...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: The measures combined in the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill fall far short of what is required to ensure that low-income and vulnerable households are protected from poverty and social exclusion. The small-scale measures contained in the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill are not sufficient to offset the regressive budgets introduced by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government since it took...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I refer to cuts to the household benefits package and the fuel allowance, the abolition of the telephone allowance - how cruel it was not to reinstate that allowance - and the bereavement grant, as well as reductions to jobseeker's benefit, child benefit and the back to school clothing and footwear allowance.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Punitive changes to the eligibility criteria for one-parent family payments are the hallmarks of the two-tier recovery overseen by this Government. I would like to mention one item in particular, namely, the cruel cut in the payment for young, unemployed persons from €150 to €100. This is really brutal for young people who have to pay their way living at home and pay rent to...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I know many of them in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area who have not been able to get jobs for different reasons. The Minister knows as well as I do that there are people who cannot get jobs. I wish to put on the record how cruel it is to have to deal with that cold cut. Go raibh míle maith agat.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. Fianna Fáil supports this Bill to address the significant rise in burglary offences witnessed in the past three years. Sadly, the number of burglary offences continues to soar within the State. The CSO recently published figures show a national increase of 8.4%. I wish to speak about the constituency of Dublin Rathdown in which the Stepaside Garda...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Nonsense.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I move amendment No. 29:In page 17, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister shall collect data to review the operation of this offence and report to the Houses of the Oireachtas after this offence has been in effect for two years. In particular the report shall set out—(a) information on the nature and extent of prostitution connected to human...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: I am right.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: This section of this otherwise superb Bill is a nonsense.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: Senator Bacik is the key driver of it.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mary White: On a point of order, I know people in the Chamber who agree with me but do not want to stand up and speak in public.