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Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I invited him to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: Aer Rianta.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister and his executives who have put a huge effort into delivering this Bill. My opinion of this Bill is different to most of those expressed today. I see this as a simple Bill which will bring about a dramatic change in Aer Rianta as we know it. After the legislation is passed Aer Rianta will be divided and Dublin Airport will become the Dublin Airport authority and Cork...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: The business plans cannot be completed until the new chairmen and boards are in place. The plans will then be presented for approval to the Ministers for Finance and Transport. The airports will not be allowed to become fully-fledged independent legal entities until both Ministers agree that the plans will work. I know Aer Rianta upside down and inside out. When I married in 1969, I had to...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: The chairman designate has said he will double Shannon Airport's passenger numbers to 4 million. In the days of the Iron Curtain when Russia was the bête noire of the world, Shannon Airport, under Mr. Skelly, allowed Aeroflot to land there en route to Cuba. Shannon Airport came to an imaginative arrangement with Aeroflot to establish Aerofirst, providing the first duty free shops in Moscow,...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I am sorry, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: Some 95% of business is about the human beings involved. Growing a business is all about human contact with employees and their ability to sell the business. It is important for the new boards and chairmen to manage and look after the employees of the three different airports and allow them to reach their full potential in developing their skills. I concur with the Minister's remarks about...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: It took me two years to get Lir Chocolates into Aer Rianta.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Mary White: When I did I made the most of it. I had very little space at the outset but I went there at 6 a.m. to do business and get more space. The airports are windows from which Irish companies can sell their products to tourists from abroad. Aer Rianta is a mega-successful company. Senator Ross's derogatory comments about Aer Rianta were utterly wrong. It is a superb State company. The public sector...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I was referring to 1957 and the Minister for Finance, Mr. MacEntee.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I am correct.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: As all comments are recorded, I would like to clarify the comments I made yesterday. In 1937 the Minister for Finance was Mr. Seán MacEntee and the Minister for Industry and Commerce was Mr. Seán Lemass. Senator Browne misunderstood the era to which I referred.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: Those Ministers had a passion for this State and a vision for an airport authority and a national airline.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: I would not go to that place.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (14 Jul 2004)

Mary White: We should not go to that place — they get the story wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2004)

Mary White: I wish to join in the welcome to Senator Kate Walsh and Ms Jody Blake, Clerk Assistant. In its report launched this month the strategic task force on alcohol states that adults in Ireland had the highest level of binge drinking in comparison to adults in other countries. The study showed that binge drinking is a norm among Irish men. Of every 100 drinking occasions, 58 end in binge drinking....

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2004)

Mary White: Yes. Ms Olive Braiden, chairperson of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, stated recently that alcohol was the second greatest factor in unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2004)

Mary White: I call on the new Minister for Health and Children, to be announced this afternoon, to apply the guts and drive the former Minister, Deputy Martin, showed in regard to the ban on smoking in the workplace to deal with this scourge of excessive consumption of alcohol and binge drinking.

Seanad: Disability Services: Motion. (29 Sep 2004)

Mary White: I had intended to raise many of the points the Minister of State made in my own presentation and I will refer to them. The Disability Bill 2004 is a defining moment in the struggle for the equal participation of people with disabilities in this country. I refer to Senator Kett, who spent many years working for the disabled, and commend him on everything he has done over the years in the...