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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: How could it be positive-----

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: To the weakest in society.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: We need a proper apprenticeship scheme similar to the brilliant German system of dual education. One cannot get most jobs in Germany without serving a practical apprenticeship with an employer. In Ireland, there are apprenticeships, which are good in themselves, for electricians, carpenters or plumbers. We have approximately 29 apprenticeships whereas in Germany there are 342 recognised...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: The point I am making is very important. We should encourage companies to take on young people and pay them a given amount. I am not saying it should be this precise figure or that it should be carved in stone, but let us suppose they were given €200 per week to take on young inexperienced people to teach them a work ethic and help them find jobs.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: The Government could give a subvention to companies to do that rather than letting young people drift into the six month period and then, at five and a half months, they become ineligible to take up a job because they have not done the six months. Does the Minister follow what I mean? This is preferable to letting them get into an unemployment position in the first place. As I have often...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: This is the most important issue in our country.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Job creation is the number one issue in the country.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: In my experience I saw the transformation of young people in Lir Chocolates when they got a job and were able to hold down that job. The only reason I started Lir Chocolates was to create employment. I never heard of the word "profit". I did it to create employment for young people.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister to the House. What I am about to say is not critical of the Minister, whom I admire very much. This is a vicious budget and is the third regressive budget in the lifetime of the Government. It lacks vision and does not offer any hope for young people. As politicians, it is fundamental that we have a vision for our country and we must offer hope for our people. I...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Such as?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Senator Zappone said the Minister got some of it right. I would like to know what she is doing right.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: I urgently call on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to account for her tenure and her presiding over the cuts to maternity benefit to Irish women. As I have said numerous times, we have a very unbalanced four-man committee running the country. I would like to ask the Minister to account for herself. One week before the budget the expert group on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: It is under the radar how the women have been cut. I do not know how Senator Gilroy can laugh; I am speaking in the House today for the pregnant women of Ireland and the future pregnant women of Ireland, whose maternity benefit is being cut by €32 per week for 90% of those who receive it. This means that the Government has reduced the collective maternity benefit payment by...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Irish women through the 1980s and 1990s came back to work to support the economy socially and economically and to help the economic development of the country when we were short of workers.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: However, the Government is penalising Irish women who are pregnant, who mind children and who come back to work after they have children.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: I would like to ask it, a Chathaoirleach, if you will allow me. Irish men work. Irish women bear children, come back to work and look after children. They have a much more demanding role than the men of this country and that is why I am on my feet today, to defend Irish women.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Mary White: Senator Hayden sounds like she is in opposition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economic Development: Discussion with InterTradeIreland (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I acknowledge the great work that InterTradeIreland does North and South. Another lady and I started Lir Chocolates in 1987. Mr. Hunter McGowan is correct. Our first exporting steps were into the North. It is a great experience to go into a different culture and jurisdiction. It is a different world and there are different ways of doing business. The professional culture in the North is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Mary White: I return to the point I made about pre-planning for the Aughnacloy-Clontibret section, for which €1.5 million is to come from Monaghan County Council. In the whole scheme of things, that is a very small amount of money. We forget there is the money for the project in full. The first part of the sum is intended for pre-planning and a following amount for planning. A delay will hold...