Results 221-240 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Youth unemployment stands at 19.8%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Through the Chair, the fen in County Kildare is a significant feature and I do not know why the people of Kildare do not make more of it. I would like to know what Deputy Lawlor has to say about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: I welcome the witnesses from both sides of the Border. I was born in Dundalk and had to leave it when I was about seven or eight. I never recovered from leaving it. I attended the conference on geotourism in Carlingford two weeks ago. It was fascinating. There was a gentleman at the conference who had set up a housing village on the northern side and he was looking forward to getting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: What is the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Disgraceful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Shame.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: I wish to address the abolition of the one-parent family payment from yesterday, 1 July, for parents whose youngest child is over seven, by the leader of the so-called Labour Party, Deputy Joan Burton. I am trying to come up with a new name for that party, as it no longer reflects my ideals of what a labour party should be about.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Fr. Peter McVerry, in a letter to The Irish Timeslast week, wrote that these cuts "will cause unnecessary hardship for thousands of lone parents and their children, and should be abandoned. [...] My experience over the last few years is that, increasingly, the Department of Social Protection has become hard-hearted and even ruthless, to the dismay of some of its own staff."The crux of this...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: This represents an increase of 32% in the consistent poverty rate for those families from 2012 to 2013. Another person whom I revere very much, Professor Kathleen Lynch, professor of equality studies in UCD, compared the situation to welfare cuts in the United States and cited a study describing those US cuts as creating "intractable conflict for poor people trying to care for kids". Could...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: I was with a woman last Friday who has two children. She is a qualified nurse with degrees in nursing management, yet the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is paying for her food and electricity. She lives in the wealthiest constituency in this country, in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: It is not reform if no alternatives are created.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: We introduced the free child care year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Fr. Peter McVerry-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Sorry for interrupting, on a point of order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: My information is that it was dissident Continuity IRA.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: We have to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Mary White: That does not exist.