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- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The Government is going to change on this point. I will remind Deputy Hayes of this.
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: That is true, it is good.
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: We will stand up for the poor people in society. That is Fianna Fáil's mantra.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, to the House. I have spoken many times in the company of the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Richard Bruton. I am perplexed that he is not listening to the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Honohan, or the representatives of small and medium businesses. The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Honohan, recently...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: And food companies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)
Mary White: She is an economic scientist.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: A Minister must come in.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: We wanted to debate a report on the Government's action plan.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: We have spoken a number of times about the disrespect shown for this House. I ask my Fine Gael colleagues to personally ask the Taoiseach to respect his party members in the Seanad by coming to address the House which is part of the Oireachtas under the 1937 Constitution. It diminishes the status of this Chamber that the leader of the Government has not come here. To be honest, if we were...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: -----but I am amazed that she did not come to this House. Why did she not come to meet us? The Dáil and the Seanad run the country. As such, I was very disappointed. Some of her entourage visited-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The issue I wish to raise is one I have raised a number of times, the lack of finance and liquidity in the economy. Each time I raise it the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation dismisses it. It has gone too far, for too long. Does he understand business? Personally, I like him, as he has integrity. However, does he really understand what is happening?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The Miniser is listening to the bankers. Mark Fielding of ISME, Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, said this week that in the last three months half of the people who had looked for finance from the banks had been refused. One cannot run a business or a company-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: How many times have I asked? Why are Members not pleading with the Minister? When we were in government, we put pressure on our Ministers at parliamentary party meetings to talk up and let us know what was happening.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: I am not satisfied. I want to know what role the Minister, Deputy Hogan, had in the decision to put enterprise boards under the mandate of local authorities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: I thought the Minister, Deputy Bruton, was the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: We need transparency. People are queueing up to leave the country because they do not have-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Hear, hear.