Results 261-280 of 4,931 for speaker:Mary White
- Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)
Mary White: I wish to raise a point of order, a Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)
Mary White: I found it very disrespectful that the Minister of State was looking at his laptop all the time. It is not right.
- Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)
Mary White: It was very disrespectful.
- Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)
Mary White: The Minister of State should have closed his laptop and listened to people attentively. He is privileged to be in that position. Only one Member from the Labour Party bothered to speak.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Mary White: I was privileged this morning to attend the press launch by SPARK, single parents acting for the rights of kids, announcing a major protest at 3.30 p.m. tomorrow outside the gates of Leinster House against the proposed savage cuts by the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, on one-parent families. This protest is in response to the most gendered cut in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Mary White: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Mary White: Yes.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: Will copies of the Minister of State's speech be provided?
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: I need to follow the speech exactly.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for providing a copy of his paper. I endorse what he says. The changes he is proposing, such as the establishment of the Low Pay Commission on a statutory basis, essentially take the politics out of setting the national minimum wage. It is very much in keeping with the dignity at work agenda which he is pursuing and complements work such as the...
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: I need to get this onto the record. I will do it quickly, if the Acting Chairman will bear with me.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: Fianna Fáil believes that the Government should examine employer PRSI for those on low pay and consider giving businesses compliant with the national minimum wage increased incentives such as temporary PRSI reductions. In the UK, employers have been given a reduction in their social security contributions through the recent increases in the apprentice national minimum wage rate. The...
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)
Mary White: There is a big gap.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: It is brilliant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: That is a fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Thank you Cathaoirleach. After my experience of child care over the past seven or eight years, I would like to formally say that today it is more chaotic than it ever was. It is very sad to see that stakeholders, parents and children are getting a worse service than they ever have. Parents are under pressure and costs are prohibitive. It is a diabolical situation and part of it is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: I know that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: To cut to the chase, I congratulate my colleague who continued the very fine Fianna Fáil tradition of developing a superb policy paper on child care. Why are you laughing, Senator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care: Discussion (7 May 2015)
Mary White: Deputy Troy has done a superb job and I have written two policy papers on child care-----