Results 21-40 of 504 for speaker:Mary White
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (30 Jan 2008)
Mary White: Question 821: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her intentions in relation to undertaking the digestibility studies, post-mortems and liver biopsies which her Department promised in 2006 on the farm animals on a farm (details supplied) in County Kilkenny when a downturn in their growth occurred, which happened in July 2007. [1036/08]
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (30 Jan 2008)
Mary White: Question 822: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her departmental officials will carry out the digestibility studies, post-mortems and liver biopsies on the farm animals (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, as her Department promised would happen when a downturn occurred in the growth of their animals, as happened in 2007; and the reason the tests have not happened...
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (30 Jan 2008)
Mary White: Question 823: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that any tests to be carried out on animals on a farm (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, which are expected to happen in the next few months are likely to coincide with the closure of a local industry implicated in the problems on the farm according to a European Parliament...
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (30 Jan 2008)
Mary White: Question 824: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has taken on board the findings of the European Parliament Petitions' Committee findings regarding a farm (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in particular regarding the environmental damage mentioned and the possible violation of EU law in relation to air pollution and contamination, and the importance of this...
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)
Mary White: I am happy to support amendment No. l moved by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, in the House last night. The motion is consistent with the support the Green Party has always shown for the tribunal of inquiry into planning matters, from 7 October 1997 to this day. The tribunal of inquiry is a necessary legal mechanism to...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Mary White: I welcome this debate and the opportunity to highlight the plight of approximately 1,100 people in this country who suffer from cystic fibrosis. In the short time allotted to me I want to deal with the question of CF. From under the Blackstairs mountains in rural south Carlow I bring my own stories of the experiences of people I know whose lives are defined, tormented and curtailed by this...
- Agency Workers: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)
Mary White: I welcome this debate as parties to the Towards 2016 commence the formal review of the agreement, which provides for opportunities to re-focus and re-prioritise the overall goals of the agreement in a much changed Irish labour landscape in which one in eight workers is a migrant. It also comes in the context of continuing efforts at European Union level to standardise the work environment to...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to review protocol 16/97 regarding CMOD approval of all expenditure above â¬500 on health information technology in view of the problems arising from it in relation to delays in approving IT maintenance projects in hospitals. [10009/08]
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (6 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assurances she will give that the Irish Osteoporosis Society will have sufficient funding and support from the Health Service Executive to survive in the long term and be in position to increase its staff beyond its current level of two employees. [10008/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Health Service Executive plans to introduce a programme of computerising all x-ray images on a national basis will mean the decommissioning of 25 radiology management systems throughout the country; and if so, the rationale behind same. [10010/08]
- Written Answers — Health Service Procurement Procedures: Health Service Procurement Procedures (11 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to improve procedures for the procurement of information technology systems in the health service in order that one supplier is not exclusively given capital projects, thus threatening the withdrawal of other medical suppliers from Ireland. [10313/08]
- Written Answers — Health Service Procurement Procedures: Health Service Procurement Procedures (11 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to improve procedures for the procurement of maintenance projects for current information technology systems in acute hospitals in order that projects are given quicker approval and not subject to budgetary pressures in such hospitals. [10314/08]
- Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount her Department has spent annually in recent years on research and development of a vaccine against tuberculosis for badgers. [10310/08]
- Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress that has been made on developing a vaccine against tuberculosis for badgers. [10311/08]
- Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Mar 2008)
Mary White: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in regard to the east Offaly badger research project 1988 to 1995, she will provide the number of badgers culled, the number of tuberculosis infected badgers culled, the herd numbers involved, the number of reactor cattle involved and the special veterinary measures, such as restrictions on cattle movements, taken...
- Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)
Mary White: I wish to share time with Deputies Michael McGrath and Charlie O'Connor.
- Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)
Mary White: I am glad these reports regarding the breast cancer services at the Midland Regional Hospital have come into the public domain. I hope one positive thing to emanate from the reports is that the Minister and the HSE will know exactly where the problems lay. I am only sorry this lesson will be learned at the expense of women whose lives were turned upside down by the mismanagement and...
- Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)
Mary White: I only have three minutes to speak so I want to make good use of it.
- Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)
Mary White: We need to acknowledge the report's findings of "systemic weaknesses in governance, management and communications" within the system in the Midland Regional Hospital. Many Deputies have quoted Europa Donna Ireland, some with a negative aspect. I want to concentrate on the positive. It has claimed rightly that a priority is to consolidate the eight designated centres of excellence in...
- Inland Fisheries. (13 Mar 2008)
Mary White: I represent a great riverine constituency. The Nore, Barrow, Slaney rivers, among others, run through Carlow and Kilkenny. They are breathtaking in their beauty and length and a rich source of folklore. In the Elizabethan era, the poet Edmund Spenser said of the Barrow, "The goodly Barrow on whose bosom great salmon heape". Ireland has some of the cleanest and most lightly fished...