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Seanad: Thalidomide Compensation Scheme (10 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I ask the Minister for Health and Children to support thalidomide survivors in their demands for acknowledgement, apology and disclosure of documents, and their demands for a health care package that properly addresses their unique health care needs now and in the future.

Seanad: Thalidomide Compensation Scheme (10 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Recently I had the privilege of meeting members of the Irish Thalidomide Association who appeared before the Joint Committee on Health and Children. Most of us can remember firsthand the tragedy that struck those innocent victims within the womb when their mothers, unwittingly, took as a relief from morning sickness, in the early 1960s, a drug...

Seanad: Job Creation: Statements (Resumed). (3 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. The single biggest challenge facing Ireland in 2010 is to create jobs and reduce unemployment. Urgent action is required to improve our competitiveness in order to support job creation and export growth. Speaking on 14 January at the launch of a report, Ireland's Competitive Challenge — Creating a Better Future, Dr. Don Thornhill, chairman of the National...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I ask the Leader for a debate on the decision of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to present a budget of €7.6 million for 2010. The authority intends to levy the broadcasting sector, radio and television stations, to raise the finance needed by it. The only way radio and television stations can raise income is by way of advertising which decreased by approximately 30% last year and...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I want to see transparency and scrutiny of this levy being imposed on radio and television stations.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Mary White: That is Fine Gael policy.

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and compliment him for the fine speech he made this afternoon on this most important issue. On 16 February, the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children issued its final report. The discussions of the joint committee took place against the backdrop of the numerous reports that have highlighted the lack of constitutional provision for...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting members of the Irish Thalidomide Association who attended the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children. Some of us remember first-hand the tragedy that struck those innocent victims within the womb when their mothers unwittingly took the drug, thalidomide, for morning sickness in the early 1960s. It was a drug that was wholly untested yet...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: It is my pleasure to welcome our new colleague, his wife, family and friends. Having been born in Dundalk it is great to acknowledge that four Members were born in County Louth, which is 7% of the Seanad's membership. We are entrepreneurial and feisty and we have a tremendous and distinctive work ethic.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: The major challenge we face in the economy is to get the more than 400,000 people unemployed back into the workforce and to ensure the stability of companies that are wavering in terms of survival. We need the smart economy agenda. This phrase is bandied about and people do not understand what it means. The smart economy agenda is about increasing productivity throughout the economy and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Last week I called-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: -----for an urgent meeting with the Minister for Education and Science regarding the underperformance of pupils in Ireland in post-primary schools in mathematics.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: This is urgent and-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Mary White: An urgent discussion is required, as is a statement from the Minister of State with responsibility for science and technology on future directions if research and development are not being performed.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I refer to the former Senator, Deirdre de Búrca. I take a strong view about the matter to which she referred last week. I spoke with her many times about her desire to go to Europe——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I do not believe she would have spoken out as she did, had she received the appointment in the Commissioner's cabinet.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I do not believe her. She would not have done so.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I simply wish to make that point.