Results 241-260 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: I support the challenge to the Order of Business as referred to by Senators Fitzgerald and O'Toole. Senator Fitzgerald is correct in the position she has taken on both issues raised. The Standards in Public Office Commission, as other speakers have pointed out, must be entirely above controversy. That is the whole point of it. We have had enough difficulties to know that if there is even...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: However, that is not enough. It is not just a question of the number of hours to be allowed for the debate today and tomorrow. The Oireachtas should not be a club. Senator O'Toole mentioned that people do not understand the difference between statutory instruments, ministerial regulations and so on, and he is right. If people in these Houses do not appreciate these differences, what hope...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: How is the public to appreciate what is going on? They have no hope at all. Resolving this issue will require more than allowing the House to sit late or, as the Taoiseach said yesterday, sit all night to discuss the issue. It is not just a question of the time taken to discuss it in this House but the period of time the public has to appreciate such an important issue. Regarding U-turns...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: I ask the Senator to listen to what I have to say.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: I listened carefully to Senator Mary White's contribution here yesterday and she might afford me the same courtesy. The Minister said it is not a U-turn because he intended doing this anyway. We are relying on the Minister and the Government to introduce a proper child care scheme but we are not obtaining much from him in that regard. If the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, which was to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: I have been here for the entire debate, Senator White. They have achieved absolutely nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: In the Minister's own words, this is not a real change but something he intended to do anyway. It is too limited and too late.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: A Chathaoirligh, I am being barracked in the Chamber.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: What arrangements?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: The Deputy has changed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: It is in the national interest as the Senator himself said until he went onto the Government benches.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: That is not what I said. That is disingenuous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: That is dishonest and disingenuous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: We offered to sit on that day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: A week is not enough.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: Will the Leader address the issue?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: That is not the point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: The Leader deliberately misrepresented what I said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: Does the Leader wish to close down the media now?
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)
Alex White: Hear, hear.