Results 4,081-4,100 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: They do not admit it themselves, but they are not all county councillors.
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: It is not a superior attitude.
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: Why was it such a mess in the past?
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: This is nonsense.
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: The Senator is exaggerating what I said.
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: The Senator should not personalise the debate.
- Seanad: Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines: Statements (Resumed). (12 May 2005)
Mary White: The Senator should not exaggerate.
- Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Second Stage. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State. In my experience of business, a good employer looks after his or her employees. This Bill is designed to punish rogue employers who do not cherish their employees. In my company, we value our staff highly. When my partner and I started the company, our staff motivated us. We had a flat management structure in place and our approach was maternalistic, in that...
- Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Second Stage. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: That is a technical point.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: President Reagan was 76.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I was not talking about Senator O'Rourke.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I congratulate the Minister on highlighting the serious issue of pensions and concur with what he said about SSIAs. Senator Cox referred to the benefit of SSIAs in terms of creating a willingness to save. We are not good at saving but the SSIAs showed that we can do it. I do not include myself in that category as I am a spender rather than a saver.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: No, I am not going to change. The pattern has been set. People are looking forward to the cash they will get into their back pockets. A challenge exists for the Minister to market pensions and to involve the Pensions Board in that endeavour. When this issue appeared on our work programme last week I met with Gerard Hughes and Dorothy Watson from the ESRI in order that they could explain the...
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I will come to that. It is no harm to reiterate the questions raised in the ESRI report. What are the sources of income during retirement for pensioners? How effective are the public and private components of the pension system in providing income during retirement? How do pensioners' incomes compare to the incomes of the working population? I had given no thought to this until it was put on...
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I am not finished yet. The Chair has to be somewhatââ
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: How much time each Senator gets depends on who is sitting in the Chair. The issue has been raised as regards tax relief on private pensions. Looking at the â¬1.5 billion a year it is costing at face value, there is no doubt that a pension of â¬200 a week, the target rate for 2007, is a totally inadequate income for anybody to live on. Imaginative inducements must be provided to people to...
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: The costs are among the highest in Europe.
- Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: It is not just wages.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: The first requisite to be a good politician is to have vision.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2005)
Mary White: I am a member of the Clann na Gael Fontenoy GAA club in south-east Dublin.