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Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Senator Mooney has noted that we have just come out of a period in which the market was not reined in adequately. He has contrasted this attitude with that in the 1980s when the market was not such a marauding or unfettered element of public policy. I concur with much of what he said, but our system faces certain difficulties in this regard. I do not wish to ratchet up the tension levels...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: That is fine, if there is genuine learning. I expect clarity from Fianna Fáil in the coming weeks on whether it is acknowledging the policies that were at the heart of the Governments it led were wrong. That could open up a period of honesty in public debate on what needs to happen. The Opposition is regularly accused of opposing everything. I look forward to my party being put to the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: I try to have the courtesy to listen to people when they are speaking, and not interrupt.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The point is that our policies are being determined elsewhere. There is no greater proof of that than that we must give reports monthly, quarterly and in some cases even weekly to our new masters on our progress on many of the issues set down in the agreement and in the memorandum of understanding, which I have read carefully. There is no question that there is, at the very least, close...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: That was Deputy Bertie Ahern. The suicide reference was made by the Minister's former colleague, Deputy Bertie Ahern.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The Minister should correct the record in this regard.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Has the Minister ever seen a pay packet?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Does the Minister know what it is?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Hopefully he soon will find out.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Whatever happens to Seanad Éireann in the next Oireachtas, there will be the election of a new Seanad in the next few months. The Order of Business is the first item whoever will be Leader of the next Seanad should reform. We have never been clear about what we should be doing on the Order of Business. The tradition n any parliament has been literally to order business. In the Seanad,...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Surely the Senator is aware that a constitutional requirement exists in this regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Alex White: It happens all the time.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Sunday.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Ar son Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre aontaím go hiomlán leis an méid atá ráite ag na ceannairí eile mar gheall ar an iar-Sheanadóir Séamus Dolan. Ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh lena bhean, Bríd, agus lena chlann go léir. I am honoured, on this sad occasion, to pay tribute to a former Member of the House who graced this Chamber so well over so many years. I agree with what others...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Senator Fitzgerald is correct: the sooner the people — I was going to say "ourselves", but we do not count in the same way as the people — are put out of their misery and an election is finally called the better. It is somewhat odd to suggest it is regrettable that such questions as the civil partnership provisions in the finance Bill cannot be or are not being dealt with now. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Who is that interrupting?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The other night a lady asked me whether I believed Fianna Fáil's vote of confidence in the Taoiseach was part of an elaborate manoeuvre for the public, that something different would be done, people would be positioned in a particular way and look like they were resigning when they were not. I told her I did not believe even Fianna Fáil would engage in such an activity and that, in my...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Does the Leader agree with me? We are always asked to put what we have to say in the form of questions to the Leader, but he never answers them, as the Cathaoirleach knows.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Alex White: For the purposes of procedure, I will put my comments in the form of questions. Does the Leader agree that what the Taoiseach has done amounts to a gross abuse of his important and solemn prerogative under the Constitution to appoint members of the Government? He stands accused of abusing this prerogative for naked political and electoral gain. He can chuckle away all he wants, as he did...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Alex White: What about the corruption that led to the establishment of the tribunals?