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- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Should we not support business to create employment? I know the difference it makes in people's lives when they get a job.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: This morning in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the Irish Exporters Association's list of the top 250 exporters in the Republic and the top 50 in the North. We are privileged to have the global brands here. The top one, Johnson & Johnson, had exports worth â¬8.5 billion. Microsoft had exports worth â¬8 billion, and we have Google...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Yesterday I drew attention to the dire straits of the 600 Irish suppliers to Superquinn and the overnight takeover of Superquinn by Musgrave. I am delighted to say that Musgrave will make a fund of â¬10 million available to the Irish suppliers, particularly the people who do not have credit insurance if the company to which they are selling goes out of business. The big companies I named...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: The Bank of Ireland and AIB have worked in some way with Musgrave in providing the â¬10 million fund but I want them to cough up the other 35% of the approximately â¬50 million owed to those Irish suppliers. It is about time the screws were put on them, so to speak. I want to move an amendment to the Order of Business. I want to know the reason the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Senator Cáit Keane is more impressed with the reality of the Seanad than her perception-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Are the Fine Gael Senators not mortified that the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, who is responsible for dealing with the biggest issue facing this country, namely, getting our 400,000 people back to work-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: -----did not respect this House of the Oireachtas? How dare he?
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)
Mary White: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, should return from Donegal and come into this House today to discuss what he intends to do about the indigenous businesses. We have a dynamic exporting sector but what about our domestic economy?
- Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: I will speak about amendment No. 88 in group 19 which deals with the national postcode system. I propose that we not support the area postcode system decided on by the former Minister with responsibility for communications in the previous Government, Eamon Ryan. As noted, Fine Gael and the Labour Party supported a distinctly more unambiguous postcode system in their recent manifestos. For...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: On a point of order, I would like my colleagues in the Chamber to know that I will insist on calling votes on the Order of Business until the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, comes to the House. The number one issue-----
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: The Cathaoirleach does not need help from the person beside him.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: The number one issue in our country is jobs.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: I will insist on doing it until the Minister, Deputy Bruton, comes here.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: Could I have a bit of respect? Senators should not be showing themselves up by walking out.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: The Minister has not come to the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: The Seanad is due to go into recess tomorrow, yet in the midst of the jobs crisis, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, has failed or refused to come here, despite numerous requests, to discuss the pressures on indigenous industry. He is avoiding confronting the real issues facing Irish industry by identifying with the continued success of foreign direct...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: We should not stand idly by and fail to exercise our voice in the strongest possible manner on behalf of the hundreds of suppliers, who are from every part of the country. I do not include the Musgrave group in this because it is very good to Irish businesses by giving opportunities to Superquinn, SuperValu, Centra and Daybreak.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: I have. I want the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, to come to the House to talk about the failure of Bank of Ireland and AIB to loan cash to small Irish businesses. We speak about doing our business in a different way. Why do we not ask the owners of small and medium enterprises to come before the House to tell us the truth about how the banks are not...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)
Mary White: -----that the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, has failed to come to the Seanad I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that he come to the House today.