Results 621-640 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)
Mary White: Is the broadband available in those counties rather than towns?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)
Mary White: We need to know more about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)
Mary White: I welcome all the witnesses, particularly my very good friend, Councillor Rena Donaghey, who is an outstanding politician on the Inishowen Peninsula. One might get the impression that broadband services in the north west gateway are highly developed. Is the high-speed broadband that has been provided in the Letterkenny and Derry area accessible to SMEs and households in all locations? Does...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: The Minister must speak to the private companies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: Who was the senior Government source who commented on this matter yesterday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: It gives me great pleasure to remind Members in the Chamber that Mr. Charles Haughey, when he was Minister for Finance, introduced free travel for older people in 1967. It was a milestone in legislation. The other milestone he introduced was the Succession Act, whereby a man could no longer sell the family home over the head of his wife. Recent press reports, including in The Irish...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: This is a neoconservative Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: Older people are discarded by society because they are no longer of use-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: We should also oppose all the restrictions proposed for Government consideration, including limiting the times when older people can travel. Of course, we are against fraud-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: -----but I am looking for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, to tell us, in respect of the report yesterday, that there is no question of touching the free travel scheme introduced by Fianna Fáil and Mr. Charles Haughey.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Mary White: We have talked about the local elections results already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: I did not mean that on a personal basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: It is a different jurisdiction with two different currencies – sterling and the euro. It is crazy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: I do not care, it must be said. Our former esteemed Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine was involved in the Food Harvest 2020 negotiations and obtained a deal for Ireland in respect of fishing. The current Government is copying what went on in that regard every step of the way. What the hell is holding back progress in respect of the matter to which I refer, particularly in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: We should bring him in and put the screws on him. The Chairman should use it himself as-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: I congratulate Councillor John Campbell on becoming mayor of the fantastic county of Donegal. I convey my best wishes to Councillor Ian McGarvey who is approaching 85 years of age and was a fine chairman of Donegal County Council. He is an example of how older people can succeed and defy the endemic ageism of political life. I support totally what Councillor Dan Kelly said. I have raised...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Road Network: A5 Working Group (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: Since he is not here we can get a go at him over this road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Developments in the North-South Co-operation: Discussion with Centre for Cross Border Studies (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: I thank Ms Taillon. I met her many years ago, in the early 1990s, in my involvement with the Fianna Fáil women's group visiting her in Conway Mill. She has a tremendous reputation for that and I am delighted to meet her again. She is a passionate person. She is obviously committed in her activities to keeping the spirit and realities of cross-Border co-operation alive in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Developments in the North-South Co-operation: Discussion with Centre for Cross Border Studies (26 Jun 2014)
Mary White: I congratulate both Mr. Soares and Mr. Haverty on that most interesting document. It is a pity the people of Ireland would not even know the figures and the reality of the lack of movement, North and South. It is sad. It needs some political driver to make this happen. It is complete nonsense. The figures are so poor. When one considers all the people going back and forth, over to...