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Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mary White: We will be exploring the issue of bad planning. The retail sector employs 350,000 people. It is the biggest employer in the country, but it is in crisis because of the lack of spending by people and the Government. I do not blame the Minister for any of this because I know she is passionate about her brief. She referred to her commercial experience. How many of the four members of the...

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mary White: I am a fan of the Minister and do not deny that the Tánaiste has compassion. However, the members of the econominc council lack commercial experience. They are running the country.

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister and wish her continued success in her very serious responsibility. Despite the improvement and stabilisation of the economic system in our country, there is a very serious crisis in the number of people unemployed. We seem to be immune to the 13.4% of unemployed people and the increasing number of long-term unemployed. On Saturday, 14 September I attended the Career...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Sep 2013)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and commend her for the great work she is doing. The aims of the Bill are to speed up the dispute resolution service provided by the PRTB by encouraging mediation and to bring the voluntary and co-operative housing sector under the governance of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The Minister of State has indicated that she also intends to deal with tenants...

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: I thank the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Maurice Cummins, for facilitating this event because it is a major event. Year after year people relentlessly lobby Minsters and political representatives to try to get their issues on the radar in the Oireachtas, but many issues never get on the radar. This is a victory for Seanad Éireann, for my colleague, Senator Mark Daly, and for the...

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: I am embarrassed, and they should be embarrassed.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mary White: Week after week, year after year we raise the matter in this Seanad of having proper study of EU directives. EU directives are brought into this country willy-nilly without major discussion in the Oireachtas and, to our detriment, we have to contend with the consequences of that. Currently, 650 people in Ireland are awaiting heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas transplants, one in ten...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: Yesterday, Enterprise Ireland published its annual report and accounts for 2012. While we have been preoccupied with austerity and troika targets, in the real economy the annual report of Enterprise Ireland tells us Irish companies and Irish entrepreneurs have achieved record export sales in 2012, breaking the €16.2 billion point for the first time. Enterprise Ireland client...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: It is a Fianna Fáil policy paper authored by me and it will be launched this afternoon.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: This is very important; it is about Irish women. Unless we include in our competitiveness Irish women's talents and potential we are not internationally competing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: -----we are not generating the potential and encouraging Irish women, and developing the potential of Ireland. In my report Members will read that there are many barriers to women entrepreneurs.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Mary White: We will have to have a proper debate on the budget and on the employment issue in the autumn.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)

Mary White: Some 81% of those polled said abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or abuse while 78% were in favour of it in cases where a woman's life is at risk. I humbly refer to the challenge posed to Senator John F. Kennedy when he campaigned in 1960 to become the first Catholic US President. At a critical point in his campaign on 12 September 1960, he addressed the doubts of many Protestants...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State who I know is doing his very best in his portfolio. We will give him another two years and see how he delivers, but I am optimistic that he will deliver in his portfolio. I believe our duty, as legislators elected in accordance with the Constitution, is to uphold the Constitution. In Ireland, thankfully, under the Constitution there is a separation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Enterprise Ireland (23 Jul 2013)

Mary White: The debate is ongoing on the abolition of the Seanad and it is important that I am available for votes. It may be the case that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, will be sacrificed on this issue. Time will tell. I have admired his performance in front of this committee but I am shocked that he has taken the position of director of the referendum for the abolition of the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Enterprise Ireland (23 Jul 2013)

Mary White: I congratulate Mr. Frank Ryan on increasing export sales to €16.2 billion. That represents money for people in our communities who are buying goods locally and enhancing quality of life and the economy. It is an added advantage that many of our indigenous companies source locally. The increase in export sales equates to a net increase of 3,000 jobs. While I was researching my...