Results 181-200 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)

Mary White: Greed.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)

Mary White: Despite all the support from Irish institutions.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: I support what Senator Colm Burke said, namely, that our priority issue on resuming after the summer recess should be that of unemployment. I remind colleagues that despite the general improvement in employment, we have 19.8% youth employment. That is a very serious issue. I would like to put on the record that there has been a surge of 8% in the incidence of crime during the past 12...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: We need an urgent debate when we resume after the summer recess on the issue of the burgeoning incidence of crime throughout the country. There must be a community response to it. Neighbourhood Watch is about people, regardless of how well off or less well off they are, coming together in communities and working together-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: -----to protect one another. I wish to put on the record again today that it was a folly to close Stepaside Garda station.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: It is a political point.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Dublin South and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown are down 90 gardaí.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: I will take the liberty of reading a letter from The Irish Times of 26 June from Fr. Peter McVerry. I am appalled. My siblings and I were reared in a Labour Party family but my father and mother, if alive today, could not identify with what is going on in the Labour Party. The trappings of power has gone to the head of all the elected Members here. Absolute power corrupts absolutely....

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: It is not bashing.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: Excuse me. How dare you speak like that?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: You are a novice and you are talking like that.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Mary White: That is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)

Mary White: I am sure Senators are aware that yesterday the British Chancellor, George Osborne, announced dramatically in his budget that a retired couple who wish to downsize or to bequeath their home, worth up to £1 million on their deaths, can pass on the value of the home to their children without paying tax. Figures from the 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD,...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)

Mary White: It is the hardest neck I ever came across. It is callous and cold. I do not how Senator Bacik, for whom I have the highest regard, has the stomach to take this. Deputy Stagg, the Labour Party Whip, should be embarrassed when he states in his e-mail that he knows, as well as we all do, that the Tánaiste said she would impose these cuts only when there was a Scandinavian style child...