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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Mary White: On Monday last I had the pleasure of attending the 20th anniversary of the Third Age Foundation in Summerhill, County Meath, which is being driven by a visionary, Ms Mary Nally, whose report was launched by the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. This is a perfect example of a community that has reached out to older people in the area. Some 600 people from County Meath attended...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Come to our party meeting.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Mary White: This debate deals with a matter of great national importance. It is about a series of atrocities perpetrated on innocent people in our country, including the bombings of 1974 in Dublin and Monaghan, which resulted in the greatest loss of life on a single day during the Troubles, when 33 people were killed. I remember hearing one of the bombs going off in Nassau Street as I worked in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: He does.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: The remarks about the Taoiseach's language were very superficial. He is entitled to use language that is used every day by many people in this country. He was passionately putting across the point that it is important for the Irish people to vote for the Lisbon treaty — end of story. There is a unanimous decision by all the political parties in this House this morning that it is so.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: He is entitled to use whatever language he likes. It is precious and snobbish to say otherwise.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: I agree with Senator Harris's comments about Cathal Ó Searcaigh. It is not the first time in Ireland that a person was presumed guilty because their name was in the media. Where is our presumption of innocence? I am reminded of how, in the 1950s, John McGahern was fired from his job in Belgrove national school because of his personal life. This was a person who we subsequently feted for...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Writers like François Mauriac and Stendhal gave me a great understanding of a life I could not experience. I am putting it on the record that there should be a presumption of innocence in Ireland.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Last week in the Seanad, in the presence of the Minister, I stated that trafficking of people — men, women and children — should be treated as a criminal offence. Will the Minister of State develop this further and spell out the current position? How do we compare internationally on this issue? This is a sinister and disgusting underground activity, as Senator O'Donovan indicated....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Last week I heard a young woman on the radio speak about working in a lap-dancing club. On the surface lap-dancing clubs can seem frivolous and not exploitative. This girl said, however, that young women who work in many clubs must pay to work and that after a certain age they are disposable. I was shocked. I have no personal experience of this. The girl said she was 26 and that if she...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: While I agree with my colleagues on the Government side, I laud the amendments moved by Senator Alex White and Senator Rónán Mullen. Having participated with the CORI group, the Sisters of Charity and Ruhama, I feel we owe it to them to put more time into this. The Minister of State sorted out the child care subvention scheme.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: He did.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: This issue is really a matter of life or death. It is below the surface and we do not meet it every day. As legislators, we have a serious responsibility to educate, as Senator Mullen said. If it is taken as a serious offence to be a client in such a situation, they must get the message that it is not acceptable in Ireland. We must provide a good example and do it in our own unique way....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: That is a different matter on which Members have spoken already.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: I draw to the attention of the Senator that we are dealing with the enactment of this Bill. I said earlier this evening, and on Second Stage, that those found guilty of abusing the services of trafficked people should be treated as having committed a crime. I am disappointed in the way the Senator is pursuing his amendment. His contribution to the debate this evening has been laudable but...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2008)

Mary White: That is for another day.