Results 2,861-2,880 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Some Senators are slow learners.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I ask the Leader, Senator Cassidy, to invite the Minister for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, to the House to bring us up to date on the strategy for child care in Ireland. There is no doubt we have made great progress in that regard. Our former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, appointed an Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. There is a commitment in Towards 2016 to make...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: The poor availability of child care facilities is hurting the careers of Irish women.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: A typical Irish family with two children under two spends 29.2% of its income on child care.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: In Germany, parents spend 8.4% of their net income on child care. Sadly, the Irish Government spends only 0.2% of GDP on child care while the Governments in France, Finland and Denmark spend 2%.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: As a spokesperson in the Seanad on children, I would likeââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: This is a very serious matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: As I have said many times here, we have free primary, secondary and third level education.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Nought to five years is the most critical in a human being's life. These figures are very disturbing. We spoke last week about competitiveness and getting our priorities right. How can we compete internationally, socially and economically if we do not provide for high quality child care and the education of children in the nought to five age bracket?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Last July, the National Economic and Social Forum said it deeply regretted that the Government had not provided one year's pre-school for every child in Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: That recommendation was in my document on a new approach to child care. I asked the Government to indicate when it would provide one year's free pre-school for every child before he or she attends formal national school.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: It is the rules of engagement. When one is here one realises one cannot do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Senator Bacik does not understand the real world of politics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)
Mary White: If the Senators on the other side were balanced, they would be over here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)
Mary White: We set them up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)
Mary White: I would like the Leader to ask the Minister for Health and Children to come to the Seanad as a matter of urgency for a debate on how the HSE will address the issues of suicide and self-harm. Today's Irish Examiner publishes the results of a survey of people between the ages of 15 and 19, which was conducted by the newspaper in conjunction with RTE. Half of those surveyed said that they know...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)
Mary White: ââwill act as a trigger, leading people to harm themselves and die from suicide. I refer in particular to financial worries.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.