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Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I can say what I want to say.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: The Acting Chairman will have to get used to it. I have been thrown off. I am not going to say again what I said.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I did not say that the Acting Chairman made a remark.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: Excuse me, I did not say that the Acting Chairman made any remark. Does he want me to obtain the Blacks to prove it? Do I have to do so for the fourth time because someone has misinterpreted what I said? I did not say that the Acting Chairman made any remark.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I do not want to argue with the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I find this disturbing. I sat here through the entire debate yesterday evening—

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: Excuse me, I have been present for yesterday's and today's debates and I find what is going on very disturbing.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I want to explain why I was taken aback earlier. I was following up Senator Quinn's point under the previous occupant of the Chair, so I thought it was all right for me to speak on section 43(4)(a). I did not mean anything derogatory in my remarks. I have known the Acting Chairman since childhood, when we both learnt piano side by side with the nuns in Newbridge.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I was taken aback that I was not allowed to talk about what I know from my business experience. We sat here until 9.30 p.m.—

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: I am a straight person and I am not in the House to engage in palaver or to please people. I was just giving my honest opinion in a helpful way. I did not mean to criticise the Acting Chairman, but I was taken aback that Senator Quinn, when the Chair was occupied by someone else, was allowed to comment on that issue. I was following that through from last night. I did not say that the Acting...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accountancy) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (29 May 2003)

Mary White: While I am in favour of compliance statements, I will not specify a figure as to what the threshold should be. My bottom line is that the directors of large companies must stand over such statements. I am conscious that the House sends out signals to the people. This provision would send out a positive message. The only reasons we are here are the provisions of the Constitution and the vote...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Mary White: In our last debate I, as co-founder of a small business, told the Minister of State that directors really had to earn their money. Every penny spent by small companies is critical. From talking to others in business there seem to be serious problems with the compliance statement.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Mary White: I call on the Government to add Lissadell House, County Sligo, to its portfolio of heritage properties. Lissadell was the childhood home of Constance Markievicz, one of the most remarkable activists produced by revolutionary Ireland. She was born into an Anglo-Irish family and lived a life of luxury and elegance at Lissadell. She is immortalised in the beautiful painting outside the Chamber,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Mary White: —and community groups in the Sligo-Leitrim area. Yesterday I received a delegation from Meánscoil Béal Feirste in west Belfast, the members of which are doing an examination in politics today in which there may be a question comparing the Seanad and the House of Lords. I learned yesterday that, thanks to the Leader, Senator O'Rourke, the Seanad meets twice as frequently as the previous...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: I think it will enhance the reputation of the food premises. I live in Dundrum and there is a takeway shop across the road from a public house. This Bill will clean up the whole street. Owners should feel responsible for their premises. I think Senator Terry's view is a little extreme. This Bill will help clean up society and make the streets safe. People should take responsibility for their...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: Under the intoxicating liquor Bill, the owners of public houses will be responsible for not serving drink to those who are already intoxicated.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: It will all happen over time. The pub owner will not serve the drink and hopefully people will not be falling out drunk into the street. The pubs may forfeit their licences and it is in everybody's interest. It is very important that the intoxicating liquor Bill is introduced as quickly as possible in order to back up this Bill.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: On Sunday evening I had the pleasure of attending Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú's oration in Crossbarry commemorating the ambush at Kilmichael on 21 March 1921 and it was an inspiration to listen to him. There was, however, a pub 100 yards from the site of the oration and it was pumping out loud rap music.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (20 May 2003)

Mary White: It was not rebel music, it was rap music and it was blaring out of the windows, causing noise pollution in the whole area. I went into the pub and was met by a phalanx of drunks who were totally stocious at 6 p.m. a mere 100 yards from where Senator Ó Murchú was giving his inspirational speech. Directly across the road from the pub there is a beautiful Centra store. It closed at 6 p.m. and...