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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: This should be a priority.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: It is just an excuse.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: I hope that at its meeting today ICTU will not leave matters open as to whether its members should vote "Yes" or "No" in the referendum. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, put in a first-class performance on last night's "Prime Time" programme. The person speaking on behalf of the "No" campaign was also excellent. There is a need for organisations such as the...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: I do not know what the Sinn Féin Members were talking about yesterday. I am fascinated with regard to where they are coming from on this matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: Sinn Féin's arguments are very flawed.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Mary White: The Referendum Commission of which the Clerk to the Seanad, Ms Deirdre Lane, served stated that the lead-in periods in respect of previous referendums were too short. The Government should have the guts to state that it made a mistake and that the lead-in period for the forthcoming referendum is too short. It should delay the referendum until the end of June.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2012)

Mary White: As I stated here on numerous occasions, the No. 1 challenge facing the country is the creation of employment. The trade union leaders are being disingenuous in what they say. The American Chamber of Commerce, the members of which are the chiefs of the multinational companies located in Ireland, includes Ms Louise Phelan, who is the sister of our former colleague who died tragically two...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2012)

Mary White: The chief executives of IBM Ireland, Merrill Lynch Ireland and Microsoft Ireland have drawn attention to the fact that the only jobs being created at present are in the foreign direct investment area and already, in the first quarter of the year, 2,200 jobs have been created. We are in a democracy and, of course, people are entitled to vote "No". If, however, the trade union leaders who are...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2012)

Mary White: -----what they are at?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2012)

Mary White: Senator Norris should brief himself fully on the world of business and where jobs in this country are being created. Our issues are not only water or sceptic tanks, but creating employment for the 450,000 who do not have jobs.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2012)

Mary White: Feisty.

Seanad: Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (23 Apr 2012)

Mary White: I am delighted to welcome the Minister of State to the House and I compliment him on his speech. As is traditional, Fianna Fáil supports the EU and of Ireland being a full and passionate member of it. The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, also called the fiscal stability treaty, is an intergovernmental treaty signed by 25 of the member...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: I draw the attention of the Leader and Members to a banner headline in The Irish Times today. Mr. Eoin O' Malley, who is billed as a teacher in Irish politics in Dublin City University, has written an article. Its banner headline proclaims: "Mahon just another nail in coffin for dying Fianna Fáil."

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The subheading helpfully adds "There is no hope for the once dominant party". As an interested party and vice president of Fianna Fáil who is committed to the party's renewal, I have read and reread the article to find a context for these funereal conclusions but failed to find these statements in the article. In searching for a possible explanation I wonder if the editor of The Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----these words from the author's submitted article. Could it possibly be the case, as far-fetched as it might be, that the responsible editor of The Irish Times added the forecasts of doom-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----on his own initiative, expressing a wish for an outcome? If that is the case, I regard the newspaper's action as inappropriate-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: -----to use a word favoured by the Mahon tribunal. Reports on the demise of the Fianna Fáil Party are entirely premature.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Mary White: It would be great to have the Taoiseach here.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: Government Departments are the worst offenders.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Mary White: The Senator's mother also was an entrepreneur.