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Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Ten weeks ago, the Minister for Health and Children met some of the 32 remaining survivors of thalidomide in this part of the island. The Irish Thalidomide Association waited a year for this meeting but survivors were seriously irritated by the deal on offer. A number of issues of significant concern were not addressed and the request to disclose documents from 1950 onwards was refused. A...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Mary White: The position should be the same as in the Dáil which did not divide on the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister. For those of our colleagues who were not present when Senator Ross spoke, he said that in all of his time here, Deputy Brian Lenihan was the best Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: He went on to say that his criticism was that NAMA had been led astray again by the banks. It will be interesting to hear what the Minister has to say in that regard in his summing up. We saw from the reports of Professor Honohan and Regling and Watson that there were serious inadequacies and failures in our banking regulatory system. The whole purpose of this Bill is that we would have...

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: -----found itself in. It is an international issue, with a banking crisis throughout the world. There is a financial crisis in the United States, the United Kingdom-----

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: It is thanks to the Minister for Finance, the Taoiseach and the Government that we are not being lobbed in with Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: We are being lauded by the Financial Times and our austerity programmes are being lauded.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: If the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal were being critical, Members would be shouting it from the beautiful ceiling here in the Seanad Chamber. Credit unions fear that any new legislation will be a blanket across all individual credit unions, of which there are 1,400. It is only natural there would be a review, to which there is no objection.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: However, we must listen to-----

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I agree. I compliment the regulator, Mr. Elderfield. Every time I hear Mr. Elderfield's name, I relax.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I know we are in good hands. I knew that the first time I saw the regulator in action, and the same applies to the Central Bank Governor, Professor Honohan. They have been outstanding appointments by the Government. Those on the Opposition side should be appreciative of the great work being done by the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, which has cared for patients for more than 50 years, has a reputation for excellence of treatment and devoted care of patients that is exceptional. The Bill before Members provides for the dissolution of the board, which then will become the responsibility of the HSE and specifically of the national cancer control programme. It...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: The National Suicide Research Foundation, NSRF, in its annual report, 2009, indicated that there has been a major increase in deliberate self-harm among Irish men since 2007, particularly among younger men. The increasing rate of deliberate self-harm is a strong indication that there will be an increase in suicide. As an acute observer of suicide, in line with the production of my document,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Why is the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, allowing cuts in acute services in hospitals for people who turn up in accident and emergency departments, having deliberately self-harmed. There has been a serious cutback in nurses in accident and emergency departments that are dealing with deliberate self-harm. On the one hand, we have an increase in suicide and the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: Thirty times more money goes into road safety than into dealing with suicide. We have a national emergency-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mary White: ------because the issue of suicide is still not being addressed publicly. We need to address it and open it up. It is the responsibility of the Government and the Minister for Health and Children. It is the responsibility of all to open up the whole topic of suicide and self-harming, and stop denying its existence. People are being tortured to death by the economic crisis, and the...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Mary White: I second the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. The two years between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year have been traumatic for those who have lost their jobs and for businesses trying to survive in the face of recession. The number of people in employment peaked at 2.1 million during the first quarter of 2008. According to the most...