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- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: We must take the public with us and a national debate is required. What is the Minister's view on this? I believe there should be a pay freeze for two years for the private and public sectors and that is the end of the story. It would solve the problem.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: The public is ready for something such as this. We cannot let Mr. David Begg decide what to do. We must bite the bullet. Will the Minister provide an update on the new proposals for the regionalisation of the Health Service Executive?
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: Of course; we have plenty of time.
- Seanad: Nursing Home Standards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hoctor, to the House and compliment her, the Minister, Deputy Harney, and the Department of Health and Children on overseeing the National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People, published by the Health Information and Quality Authority. In the wake of the report by Professor Des O'Neill, consultant geriatrician at Tallaght...
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: It was not.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: I am delighted to welcome the Minister to the House. I do not find Senator Fitzgerald's ideological argument convincing. Her heart is not in it.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: Anybody with common sense would know that one pays according to one's means. I accept that in the new revised scheme, 95% of people over 70 will have a medical card. I do not believe that people who are well-off and can afford to pay for medical services should get a free medical card.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: I do not believe that, in her heart and soul, Senator Fitzgerald thinks people who have the money should not pay.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: I am talking about universality.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: I support the revision. As spokesperson on older people, I was pleased to see that older people in Ireland were able to exert their influence to get it changed and rather than the 62% who would have been given a medical card it is now 95%. We were talking this morning about the United States and the people of that country engaging in the political process. In my view, real-life politics...
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: We need to have a good debate in the House on a vision and a strategy for old age. I am meeting Julia Neuberger on 24 November in the House of Lords. She is bringing in to meet me a number of people in the UK who are interested in the whole vision for older people. I congratulate the Minister on making the changes when she saw the democratic response and I congratulate her on the fair deal...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. The gatherings outside Leinster House remind me of the monster gatherings of Daniel O'Connell, when he called a quarter of a million people to the Hill of Tara. When the Minister of State spoke in Westland Row, it was not personal. The Mental Health Commission Annual Report for 2007 has just been published. It highlighted child and adolescent mental health...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I am the spokesperson on children in this House. It is my duty and responsibility to spell out what is the situation. The Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, in his capacity in the Cabinet and his ministerial role, should take responsibility and convince his colleagues at the Cabinet table. That is what Deputy Donogh O'Malley was able to do in his dayââ
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: The Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, is a friend of mine. I was not inferring that. In my documentââ
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I have 31 recommendations in my document on how to reduce the rate of suicide in Ireland and one of them is that the Minister with responsibility for children take responsibility at Cabinetââ
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I have to defend my character on the radar. I spent a year studying this issue. I have 31 recommendations in my document. I spent three months writing it and one of my 31 recommendations is that the Minister with responsibility for children be given a new responsibility to take on theââ
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: ââoverall implementation, including the delivery of psychiatric services for children. Children should not be treated in adult hospitals.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.