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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I seek the truth at all times. I call on our Leader, Senator Donie Cassidy——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Perhaps if former Senator de Búrca had been voted into the Seanad rather than appointed she might have appreciated it more.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I call on our Leader to call urgently for the Minister for Education and Science——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: ——to come to the House and explain his vision for the teaching of mathematics and science. A report by the national centre for excellence in mathematics and science suggests maths teachers in secondary school are not qualified to teach the subject. I am deeply concerned that some 35% of maths teachers are not qualified to teach the subject. Students at all levels of ability require the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I ask the Leader as a matter of urgency to invite the Minister of Education and Science to come and speak about the role of our universities in the life of the country in the 21st century. Dr. Craig Barrett, speaking in the Mansion House last week on education and competitiveness, spelt out the reason Intel came to Ireland 20 years ago was because of the high educational standard of our...

Seanad: Proposed Emergency Funding to Greece: Statements (16 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for his excellent speech. Much attention has been paid to the economic crisis in Greece. This is understandable, for Greece has broken important promises and, apparently, committed fraud towards other eurozone members. The exact extent of fraud committed by Greece to appear euro-ready is still uncertain as new details are still...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Along with 600 other people, I attended a lecture in the Mansion House last Monday given by Dr. Craig Barrett, former chairman of Intel. Dr. Barrett spelled out the reasons why Intel invested in Ireland 20 years ago. We had a large and highly educated cohort of young university graduates and were competitive and bursting with fire to be the best in Europe and to escape our Third World...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: I am a republican socialist by nature. I watched closely the Fine Gael Government of the 1980s. I feel very sorry for my colleagues on the Opposition benches because their leader cannot afford to blow it any more. I said to my colleagues today that if Fianna Fáil is given a chance in the next 12 months, we will be back as the leaders in government. This country's success to date has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Mary White: -----and to produce entrepreneurs who will produce the nanotechnologies and companies of the future.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Hear. hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Where was he from?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2009)

Mary White: I concur with Senator Ó Brolcháin that Members on both sides are talented and come to the House with their own expertise and professionalism. This has been obvious to me in my time in the House. My expertise and experience have been gained in the business sector. I started a company during the horrendous recession of the 1980s and was able to observe the physical, emotional and social...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Mary White: I call for a debate on the issue of ageism, which I have raised before. I would like the Members of the House to go to the GPO. We have had a lot of truck about the relocation of the Abbey Theatre to the GPO in honour of the 1916 centenary. As a child and a teenager, every time we came to Dublin my father brought me to Cúchulainn's statute at the front of the GPO to read the Proclamation...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Mary White: I got it into the programme for Government in June 2007 that a person would have control over his retirement date.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Mary White: We should deliver on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Mary White: On behalf of my husband who is from County Leitrim, I sympathise with the family of Garda McLoughlin from Feena. How frequently in recent months have we heard disparaging remarks about people working in the public service, as if they had a cushy ride? Gardaí place their lives at stake - this is an example and a tragedy for the man in question. People should be more careful in showing...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Mary White: It is an excellent partnership. It is also opportune to congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy John Maloney, on receiving €47 million in the budget for the Vision for Change programme. I have called a number of times for him to attend a discussion on suicide. This is a serious issue for many people who are unemployed who have never suffered from mental illness and those who feel...