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Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for circulating a copy of this exceptional document with a handwritten letter. We have reams and reams of reports, some of which are boring and others very reasonable. The document before us is top notch and I am highly impressed with it. As a business person, I note it highlights the issues of importance to me. The Minister of State drew attention to the role...

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: It does not make sense. In this particular community in the city it is possible that five shops will go out of businesses on one little street and therefore the sense of community and the sense of place will be gone. I find it difficult coming here in the morning to buy the paper because all the small shops have closed. I used to hear my colleagues in Fianna Fáil going on about this over...

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The Minister of State referred in his contribution to the micro-finance loan and the temporary partial credit guarantee scheme. We have to get those working-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: As the Minister of State said, it is a great idea to take Mr. Moran, who is a rising star in the Department of Finance-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I would love to be with the Minister at some of those meetings.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I would like to do that because I love the area of small business, and Mr. Moran understands business having come from the private sector.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I congratulate the Minister of State on driving forward this document.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Small businesses are at the core of our economic sustainability in creating employment. In his report the Minister of State said that thousands of companies have gone out of business in the past three years and thousands of jobs have been lost.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: When people lose their jobs it creates severe mental problems. Last year, the department of health in Greece published statistics to the effect that there was a 40% increase in suicide between May and July of last year due to the economic recession there. It is important that we make heroes and heroines out of our small business people. When an Irish company expands-----

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: -----there should be excitement about it, not just the multinationals. I congratulate the Minister of State and wish him further success.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: I draw attention to the ongoing cuts in primary school education. I specifically highlight west Tallaght, including the areas of Fettercairn, Brookfield, Jobstown and Killinarden, where ten primary schools are designated as disadvantaged. The proposed cuts will result in schools in the area losing 25 teachers and 18 special needs assistants in a three year period. The area has ten special...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: The teachers in the particular schools are concerned that departmental officials never visited the schools.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: Bureaucrats make the decisions.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Mary White: He has never been in the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Even those in the big fancy restaurant, as some Members called it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: The one and only.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: I support the appreciation by my colleagues of everyone but, after the savage budget, the Members do not realise how the public feel about politicians and the Government. People are very disillusioned with the latest budget. The elephant in the room is the unemployment rate in the country, which is 14.6% and rising all the time. Some 32% of young men between 20 and 24 years of age are...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Mary White: Senator Keane changed her mind about that subsequently.