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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Beverage Exports: Discussion with Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (25 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I welcome the gentlemen and thank Mr. Tobin for his chairman's report and congratulate Mr. Foley on his excellent report on beverage exports from 2000 to 2011. The value of exports by the drinks sector performed very well increasing from €854 million in 2000 to a peak of €1.324 billion in 2007, or 55% over those seven years. From the viewpoint of the direct benefit to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: One cannot create a job unless one is passionate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I have no doubt the Minister is a brilliant academic. He is highly educated and a University of Oxford graduate but I want to see passion in him as regards bringing down this unemployment rate. If 40,000 people per year are emigrating, the figure could be 22%. As a person who created a company during the last recession in the 1980s, I know what unemployment does to people. I recommend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: That is not correct. That is a cynical view of human nature. It is an outrageous remark.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: It is akin to what Mitt Romney said about people who vote for the Democratic Party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: Say that down in Dublin South-East.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I am just correcting the Senator. She should not say that about me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Mary White: Yesterday the CSO launched its quarterly national household survey for the second quarter, covering April to June 2012. The results show the continuation of a lack of growth in the economy and in employment. Up to June 2012, unemployment increased by 4,000. The unemployment rate of 14.8% has remained constant for the last few months. The actual figure for the number unemployed is 308,500....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I was born in Dundalk. It is a good place with many entrepreneurs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I am fascinated by this discussion, which is very close to my own heart because I know it is the small and medium indigenous companies that will provide the employment opportunities for our young people. I had the honour of being an adjudicator for the Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year competition, which I was delighted to do. The transition year students in a school in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: We are looking for that but it is not there yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: Yes, it desperately needs to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I would like to reiterate my colleagues' appreciation of the presentations, all of which were very pertinent to today's meeting. We have an unemployment rate of 14.8%, almost 60% of which is made up of people who are long-term unemployed, but there is no sense of urgency. It is not on the radar how devastating not having a job is to a human being. I saw that devastation during the 1980s...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: Certainly. I am just finishing my point. Mr. O'Connor mentioned Mr. Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve. I was excited when I saw what he had the guts to do, but that is his mandate - to control inflation and create employment. There is a serious deficit within the ECB in that context. Its role should not just be to control inflation but also to find ways to help reduce unemployment....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I am pleading with the EU-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: There are fantastic proposals and suggestions here but there is no sense of urgency in terms of bringing them to fruition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment and Youth Unemployment: Discussion (18 Sep 2012)
Mary White: I am simply making the point and letting the gentleman from the EU know my position. We are a great country for producing reports but we need action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
Mary White: It would put people out of jobs if we did not have them.
- Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (12 Jul 2012)
Mary White: Before I discuss the Bill, I welcome the announcement on Tuesday of the establishment by Enterprise Ireland of a â¬250,000 competitive feasibility fund aimed at stimulating high potential business start-ups by female entrepreneurs. The fund will be open for applications from Tuesday, 17 July 2012 until 4 September 2012. This initiative is part of a drive by Enterprise Ireland to boost the...
- Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (12 Jul 2012)
Mary White: I do not agree with the Minister of State on that point.