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Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: It is fine to talk about pathways to growth, but we need financing. It is not available for small and medium sized companies and they will not be able to meet the potential demand.

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: The most important issue in the industry, and the whole economy, is the financing of small and medium sized businesses. The Government is not dealing with that issue. There are fine plans but nothing is happening on the ground. I agree with the Minister that the growth in our population creates potential for growth. We must get adequate management training-----

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: -----for a new group of people who can manage these companies. The standard of management is not sufficient to meet world demand and to innovate. There is a lack of management skills and crisis funding in the agri-food industry at present.

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: It is more than that.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: We should get the Minister to attend the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Given that the two days we are to sit next week are the last two before the recess, I plead with the Leader, Senator Maurice Cummins, to invite the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, and the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, to the Seanad next week. The Minister of State at the Department of Arts,...

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Has the Minister a copy of his speech?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear. We must have courage.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Mary White: I have spoken privately to the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Maurice Cummins, about how anxious I and all my colleagues on this side of the House are to get the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, to come to the House. The most serious crisis in our country is the provision of jobs for the 450,000 people who are unemployed. I inquired last week about how we...

Seanad: A Vision for Change: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. I am confident she is an inspirational lady and, if I can be flaithúlach, she is charismatic. My 40 year old daughter, my only child, always said that Deputy Lynch, during her time as a Deputy, was the most charismatic person on television. That is the greatest compliment I could give her. My husband concurs. He saw Deputy Lynch on...

Seanad: A Vision for Change: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: There are so few ladies here, we really have to stick together. I want to put on the record some points about the document I produced in 2008 concerning what we can do about suicide in the new Ireland. It is still very much an issue that is taboo, no matter what we say. I prepared my document as a lay person. I held public meetings in the city here and spoke to parents and family members...

Seanad: A Vision for Change: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: I would much prefer to be in Government.

Seanad: A Vision for Change: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Smart.

Seanad: A Vision for Change: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: The Minister of State is doing grand.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: I express my shock at some of the remarks made about the latest Cloyne report, that we should not speak about it in the House and that we should delay a debate on it in order to have time to read it. As the House will be sitting next Tuesday afternoon, I do not see why we cannot debate it then. This is an urgent national issue. Child abuse is a most cruel act that also affects the victims'...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: I am quite shocked that humour was brought into the discussion and also that it was suggested we should postpone a debate on the report. Everybody can read it tonight, as we all have received a copy, or have we become so anaesthetised? We have received four reports; are we no longer shocked by them?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Mary White: The Senator did not get the Queen to visit.