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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I draw the attention of Members to a most inspiring protest at the gates of Leinster House yesterday. Twenty children between the ages of four and 11 protested at the failure of the Government to provide them a new school. The existing school in Ballinkillen, County Carlow, is 200 years old next year. Just think about that. Children are being educated in a building that is 200 years old.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Mary White: The sight of the four year olds with their banner was inspiring, and it did not leave my thoughts.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Mary White: They learned that Leinster House is a place where action takes place. People are cynical about politicians and about Leinster House, but these young people are learning a political lesson at four years of age. I was so impressed by that.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I saw at first hand the effect that those young people had yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I support my colleagues on the role of prisons and people being imprisoned for non-payment of debts. On Monday I visited St. Patrick's Institution, the prison for young boys aged between 15 and 21 years. Up to 60 children, aged between 16 and 17 years, are in prison there. How we re-integrate people who were in prison into society must be debated in the House. Last week, I attended a...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Mary White: -----Mr. Willie Connolly. I call for a serious debate on the role of prisons in society. My final point is that St. Patrick's Institution, in which young people are imprisoned, will be moved in two years' time to Lusk. It will be a detention centre at which there will be a real focus on rehabilitation.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I express my sympathy on the death of Mrs. Sadie Walsh, the mother of the very respected Seanad reporter, Mr. Jimmy Walsh. She died yesterday in her 91st year and is being reposed from today until her burial on Saturday. The notice is in today's Irish Independent. I draw attention to the report by Carl O'Brien in today's The Irish Times headed "Severe literacy problems persist despite 25...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: This major sociological study shows us why more equal societies almost always do better. If the society is more equal, everyone is better off. Yesterday I spoke about the increase in suicide. There is a group of people in society who are now dying more frequently. The people who missed out on the Celtic tiger and were not able to participate in it fully are now being cast aside again-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: -----and being disadvantaged further. From my time on the National Economic-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I just want to finish.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: The evidence on the ground, from what the National Suicide Research Foundation has told me-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Mary White: -----is that the people who are dying from suicide are those who have been left out by the Celtic tiger and cannot get employment.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I plead with the Leader to arrange before the end of the session for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the Seanad to discuss what she and the HSE are doing about the national crisis of suicide in the community. At a time when the number of suicides is increasing, the funding of the suicide prevention organisation has been cut back. My evidence is from the organisations which...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: We should leave this amendment until Report Stage to deal with the issue. It would be wrong to divulge commercially sensitive information to a monopoly provider.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: I concur with my colleague, Senator Callely, that it is wrong to have any potential interference when people are trying to do business to provide a much-needed service and then allow information to be left around the place. It is not business like, and we have a responsibility in this regard. People are setting up nursing homes and doing their best to provide a service and this is too much...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: The market decides the price.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: Having listened to Senator McFadden's comments on this issue, I share the view that dealing only with the physical aspect is a form of housekeeping. Each human being is unique. This faces all of us in the future. We discussed in the Seanad a report done by NUI Galway that the practical needs of older people in nursing homes were being looked after reasonably well but there is a holistic...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: -----and whether the person is happy that he or she is living in the nursing home as a home from home. The person wants to be at home but he or she must be in the nursing home. The happiness part, how the person feels, is the most important part. I would prefer to be happy and have the place untidy, but my emotions, my feeling about myself and whether I am happy in the place would be...