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Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: You know what I am talking about. You must not understand these issues.

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: We have to wake up to the fact that technology companies will outsource certain aspects of their business. Companies must make the strategic decisions to engage in marketing and research and development in order to survive. We will require high-skilled immigrants, probably with PhDs. International investors are no longer looking at whether we have the infrastructure in place. When the IDA was...

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I was speaking in a general sense.

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: They were talking about the——

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I am sorry. The motion has been tabled because a number of indigenous industries have not survived. They have not been able to switch markets, their products have gone out of date and they will have to develop new products. The State agencies for which the Minister is now responsible are sincerely focused on indigenous industry. It is much more difficult to develop indigenous industry than it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: It is very cheap.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: The Senators should sit together.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I call to the attention of the Seanad the handwritten note of surrender of Padraig Pearse from Easter 1916 which is on display in the James Adam showrooms on St. Stephen's Green. The sale of the note will take place in May and the guide price is approximately €40,000 to €60,000. The note is a document of priceless historical value written at the time of the birth of the State. In the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Mary White: A year ago, I requested on the Order of Business the purchase by the State of Lissadell House, which was an opportunity I thought in my innocence it could not miss. I recommend colleagues to visit the Adam showrooms today to look at the letter. It will be a deeply emotional experience. I would like to see the State buy the letter and display it in our wonderful museums rather than allow it to...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and compliment him for batting out on the issue of child care on "Prime Time" last Thursday. As previous speakers and the ladies in the Gallery know, child care is the most important issue facing thousands of parents in all income groups with babies and young children, as well as those couples hoping to have children. The availability of quality and reliable...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: No politician will do away with that allowance but the way of dealing with child care and contributing towards it financially, is not through child benefit, which is a farce. Last week the House had a very good discussion on parental leave. Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe where the State does not make a financial contribution for parental leave. It was discovered that more women...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: No. Tax reliefs are utilised by Government for economic measures such as urban, rural and hotel developments. When there is an economic or social crisis the Government decides to use tax benefit to develop and grow areas where the need is greatest. Tax reliefs are commonly used fiscal instruments. The Celtic tigresses are now deciding they cannot have a second child because if they do they...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: No. There were 12 people in my leaving certificate class. People could only go to school when Donagh O'Malley provided free secondary education. We must have vision in regard to how we look after children. We must have a strategic child-centred policy. We do not want anybody to be excluded. I have visited crèches in recent weeks and witnessed the high degree of intellectual stimulation...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I believe in them. I have to win this debate. I urge the Government to change its mindset and introduce tax reliefs for child care and pre-school education. Everybody should be included. The approach taken must be child-centred. No child must be excluded. Children from low income families should not be excluded from all the exciting and stimulating programmes that exist for children. We now...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary White: It happens to everybody.

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (9 Feb 2005)

Mary White: This is a very interesting discussion and we are in the Seanad to raise these issues and develop policies on them. If we cannot achieve it today, we will try to get the ball over the line in the future. I totally support what Senator O'Toole said, but the reason we have such improved productivity is that we did not have the traditional industries that existed in France and Germany. We have...

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (9 Feb 2005)

Mary White: I spoke to parents at a child care centre this morning. One woman made the fascinating point which I had not thought of that it is in men's DNA to think it is women's responsibility to mind children. I looked at her and knew it was a profound statement. She was right. While things are changing and men are taking more responsibility, they are all born thinking that way.