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Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Feb 2014)

Mary White: I feel a moral responsibility to put on record the Minister of State’s personal achievement in honouring her word that she would come back in early spring and discuss the Bill further. I would also like to congratulate our Leader, Senator Cummins, who did not take the traditional aggressive or antagonistic approach to an Opposition Bill and who saw it as important that fathers would...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)

Mary White: I welcome the initiative that Senator Power has taken with this Bill, which is fully endorsed by the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. Under the law as it stands, a school can claim that hiring a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender teacher could undermine its religious ethos. In 1993, the then Fianna Fáil Minister for Justice, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, decriminalised homosexuality. It is...

Seanad: Early Intervention and Family Support Services: Statements (7 Mar 2012)

Mary White: ...those from disadvantaged families. Based on my research, before we had the free child care, it was pretty obvious that parents with money were able to send their children to pre-school and they were ending up in national school with a considerable start on children whose parents did not have the money. I congratulate the Minister on maintaining the funding. I also congratulate her on...

Seanad: Thalidomide Compensation Scheme (10 Mar 2010)

Mary White: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Recently I had the privilege of meeting members of the Irish Thalidomide Association who appeared before the Joint Committee on Health and Children. Most of us can remember firsthand the tragedy that struck those innocent victims within the womb when their mothers, unwittingly, took as a relief from morning sickness, in the early 1960s, a drug...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Mary White: Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting members of the Irish Thalidomide Association who attended the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children. Some of us remember first-hand the tragedy that struck those innocent victims within the womb when their mothers unwittingly took the drug, thalidomide, for morning sickness in the early 1960s. It was a drug that was wholly untested yet...

Seanad: Early Childhood Education: Statements (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Mary White: ...the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan. I have spent the last 18 months researching child care issues. During this time, I organised four public meetings in the Dublin South-East constituency and a conference in the Berkeley Court Hotel which was attended by the Minister of State at which he set forth his belief that this is an issue that must be addressed urgently by the Government....

Seanad: Adoptive Leave Bill 2004: Second Stage. (20 May 2004)

Mary White: Senator Terry raised the issue, dealt with under section 7, of an employer demanding that evidence of attendance should be furnished if an adoptive parent attends a class. That is very bureaucratic and mean-minded. In my company shop stewards going to a meeting obtain a notice from the union stating that they will be attending a meeting. That is adequate and we allow the person to go. This...

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (2 Dec 2003)

Mary White: I thank the Minister and his officials for listening so attentively today and for the vision for the women of the next generation shown in the Chamber. As I said, I feel very strongly that mothers should not have to work and breastfeed. I maintain my position that, if they are breastfeeding for six months, they are entitled to be at home. Regarding the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission,...