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- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I drove the issue over many years.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I have been a Member of this House since 2002 and in that period I have produced three publications. I find it very irritating at times as some of the new Senators think nothing was done in this House until they arrived. I produced two documents on a new approach to child care in Ireland. I drove the issue at parliamentary party meetings and my colleagues, Senators Jim Walsh and Darragh...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: It was during that time the Minister of State with responsibility for children was given a Cabinet position. The former Senator, Kathleen O'Meara, and I consistently pursued the issue. We are privileged as we have the highest birth rate in Europe, which is unique, and other countries are desperately trying to get people to have more children. These cuts will go against people having a...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: The Minister needs a few women to back her up.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: For the benefit of my Seanad colleagues who were not here earlier when I spoke, the fact that there are only two women out of 15 sitting at the Cabinetââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: It is a long time.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: There should be a more equal balance in terms of equality between men and women in Government They are far more socially advanced in the Nordic countries. I find it extraordinary that the Labour Government was not willing to increase the levels of income tax for people earning a high income. That is beyond me.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I would prefer to pay more income tax rather than deprive a one-parent family of the money it will lose in these cuts. Reducing the age requirement from 14 to seven yearsââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: The cost of child care will prevent women from going back to work.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I am speaking on section 7 regarding the one-parent family cutbacks.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: A total of 98% of recipients of one-parent family payment are women. I did a newsletter on the budget in which I said it was anti-women and anti-family. Two of the eight measures taken were regressive. For the Members who were not here earlier, I stated that on 30 November the CSO, in a survey on income and living conditions, indicated that people on higher incomes were earning five times...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: No.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I find mysterious the article of faith which the Minister for Finance keeps reiterating as he lauds himself and the Government for not increasing income tax rates. There is a coterie of people in the country who are willing to pay more income tax to try to prevent increased inequality between people at the higher and lower levels. In a true republicââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: We are speaking about the cuts with regard to lone parents, reducing the age from 14 years to 7 years and how it is prohibitive to lone parents returning to work. Will the Minister of State ask his party colleagues why it is such an article of faith that the Minister for Finance does not seem to be willing to consider increasing income tax for those at a higher level of income? I find it...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: It is for the party of the Minister of State. I cannot understand why the Minister for Finance will not increase income tax â big deal â he should increase income tax for people who are more well-off.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: Sections 11 and 14.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: As I said earlier, in my political career, this is the most socially regressive budget we have ever had. I am not being personal when I say that Senator Marie Moloney seems from her tone of voice to be happy with it. She is so informed that she feels relaxed about it. She is not irateââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Mary White: I am just giving the Senator my honest opinion.