Results 2,941-2,960 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Mary White: They are paying the taxes that are paying for the 60% who participate. The system is socially unjust. I call for a serious national debate on how universities will be funded. The cream and the intellectuals of this country will want to go to Cambridge, Yale or Harvard if we do not invest in our third level sector. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his patience.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Who created the boom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Mary White: The Senator is taking poetic licence with the economy and those who run it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (25 Jun 2008)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Moloney. From my experience of him in the past seven years, I agree with Senator Buttimer. He is a man of action and will want to see the same. I am sure he will not be patient. I offer my best wishes to Deputy Moloney, his wife, Trish, and their children and I hope he may have every success in this position and be happy in doing the very...
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Máire Hoctor, and congratulate her on her reappointment as a Minister of State with responsibility for older people. I listened to her speech and it is an excellent idea that she would integrate into her office the National Council on Ageing and Older People. It is a tremendous resource and probably the best organisation for older people. We spoke...
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: In some developed countries today, the proportion of older people is already one in four. During the first half of the 21st century, this proportion is expected to reach one in two. The president of UCD is a doctor as well as president of a university, and he stated that as a medic and health professional, he believed it important to state that as a success story. On the other hand, it...
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: There are two pieces of legislation, one for the public sector and one for the private sector. However, the people who make the legislation do not have to retire at 65 years of age. Deputy Jackie Healy-Rae is 76 so we should get on with this.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Yes.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: The Acting Chairman should let him continue. It is interesting.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Yes, all of us together.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Older Persons: Statements (19 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)
Mary White: Last week, I spoke at a women in business conference in the midlands which was encouraging women to start up their own businesses. I took poetic licence to speak on the issue of the Lisbon treaty and reminded them â many of whom were quite young and under 40 years of age â that prior to our joining the EU women in the private and public sectors had to give up their jobs when they got...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)
Mary White: It is a man's club. One has only to look at how hard it has been for Hilary Clinton to break throughââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)
Mary White: I had better be careful not to say too much more. I fully supported Hillary Clinton.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)
Mary White: I hope that Barack Obama's committee has the vision to put Hillary Clinton on ticket. My husband has made a bet with me that it will not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)
Mary White: That is not the Government's fault.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)
Mary White: The Sunday Independent business section.