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Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Mary White: It is the only one outside Arizona and Oregon.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)

Mary White: We do not need reminding that Ireland is a small open economy with a population of just over 4.4 million people on the periphery of Europe. Our future lies at the heart of Europe. In 1973 when we joined the European Economic Community we leapfrogged mentally, and in business and trade, over the UK. We became Europeans instead of being dependent on the UK for many aspects of the economy and...

Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)

Mary White: I was speaking about the EU. When we became members of the EEC we had to transpose a directive whereby married women could no longer be prevented from taking up employment. I do not have a problem with people having a different opinion or view to me because this is a democracy. We have had a very stimulating debate and I believe the Irish people have become invigorated by it. I am positive...

Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the Minister and compliment him on his speech. It brings us up to date on the agenda of the Government to make Ireland the best place to do business. The Minister gave a first class presentation on the up-to-date position. As the Minister pointed out, one in every seven jobs in the Irish economy is the result of direct or indirect foreign investment, but 99.99% of Irish people do...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Mary White: As has been said already, today is the 38th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. In those two incidents, the greatest number of people were killed in one day during the course of the civil strife on this island. Yet not one person has been prosecuted for killing 34 people, including an unborn baby. It is a national scandal that this issue has not been dealt with. It was swept...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Mary White: I wish to draw attention to today's order paper, which includes No. 23, non-Government No. 1. The motion states: That Seanad Éireann is keenly aware of the suffering of the families of those who died or were injured in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and in all the atrocities that were inquired into by Judge Henry Barron; that this suffering is exacerbated by the absence of closure in...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Mary White: We have a Bill on this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Mary White: Do not mind him.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: Do not be so silly, Senator Landy.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: He can listen to us.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: Democracy.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: At least he did not try to get rid of us.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Mary White: The Taoiseach has to accountable for what he has said about the Seanad.

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Second Stage (9 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I commend Senators John Crown and Jillian van Turnhout and my Fianna Fáil colleague, Senator Mark Daly, on bringing it forward. Some 7,000 people die from smoking related diseases in Ireland every year. Anything we can do about this is to be commended. As Minister for Health and Children in 2004, the Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Micheál...

Seanad: Review of White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements, Questions and Answers (9 May 2012)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for that excellent presentation. I again congratulate him on his most well deserved appointment. The White Paper on Irish Aid, produced in 2006, was a seminal moment for Irish Aid development policy. We welcome the review of the White Paper as an opportunity to reaffirm Ireland's commitment to the aid programme and the core principles of that programme....

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the initiative that Senator Power has taken with this Bill, which is fully endorsed by the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. Under the law as it stands, a school can claim that hiring a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender teacher could undermine its religious ethos. In 1993, the then Fianna Fáil Minister for Justice, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, decriminalised homosexuality. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: The Taoiseach is discussing our future.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Mary White: What about barristers and solicitors?