Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I would fully support a motion being tabled on the case of Íngrid Betancourt.

However, I deeply resent the vested interest reference made about me by Senator O'Toole. I was asked by the President, Mary McAleese, to chair the Gaisce, the President's Award, and get it into the North. I spent three years doing that and I achieved it for the President. She said no one else would have achieved it but me. This was for the peace process. She wanted her award to be available to nationalists and republicans in the North.