Results 3,421-3,440 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology. (13 Feb 2007)
Mary White: I wish to share time with Senator Kenneally. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Haughey, to the House. Waterford Institute of Technology has been in receipt of major capital investment and its main campus can now support more than 6,000 students. For this reason, as Dr. Edward Walsh, president emeritus of the University of Limerick, stated in...
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology. (13 Feb 2007)
Mary White: I wish to put on record the fact that the Minister of State's father appointed me to the Higher Education Authority in the 1990s. I appreciated the appointment very much and I was honoured to serve in that capacity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Mary White: Marriage.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)
Mary White: He was on the ball.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: A DVD should be made of it. We could sell it.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: The Sunday Independent is a dictatorship.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: It is an investment plan.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: Corporation tax.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Haughey, on his second appearance in the House. As he can see from the compliments he has received he has support across the House. I wish to focus on the all-island co-operation section of the National Development Plan 2007-2013. Since the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, society in Northern Ireland has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: Will the Deputy Leader arrange an urgent debate on mandatory retirement? On Monday, the Taoiseach launched the European year of equal opportunities for all. How can we have equal opportunities when people must retire at 65 years of age? A recent MRBI-The Irish Times poll stated that 43% of people in their 50s said they would like to work beyond the age of 65.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: At a time when there is a shortage of skills, we are letting skilled people leave the workforce. I have received numerous telephone calls and letters from people whose hearts are broken and who are fit, healthy and are able to do their jobs but who are being told to retire at 65 years of age. Many of them work in this building. This year Senator Maurice Hayes will be 80 years of age. Think...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Mary White: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach. The point is that politicians do not have to retire, so why should people in the public and private sectors have to do so?
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Mary White: It is â¬100.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Mary White: It is important that there be no ambiguity in the public arena in respect of owners of individual nursing homes. It is important that the matter be clarified. Members of this House believe that amendments from whatever side of the House should get recognition and that we play a role. It is not clear from the amendment's language what is meant. I know it is not intended that the public...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Mary White: The Senator should look at the big picture.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Mary White: No.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his passionate speech. Senator Norris concurred on its worth and on the Minister of State's eloquence. As we all know, the term "extraordinary rendition" refers to the extrajudicial procedure used by the United States for transporting terrorist suspects from one country to another to interrogate or imprison them in circumstances that give...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Mary White: There is an alliance between Mr. Fava and Mr. Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, to put down our Government.