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Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)

Alex White: The Green Party did, and it is now in Government with Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)

Alex White: The Green Party campaigned against it.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)

Alex White: I welcome the Minister to the House. Nothing Senator Donohoe has just said could be remotely interpreted as being vicious or anything other than a thoughtful analysis of the issue. I am a little perplexed about the urgent nature of this legislation. I want to tease out that aspect and perhaps the Minister will respond on it. The Minister indicated that it arose when the powers of the...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)

Alex White: What happened to the seven minutes?

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (19 Dec 2007)

Alex White: I want to endorse what Senator Donohoe said. I accept the Minister has been in the House previously and always has been prepared to debate the issue of co-location but that does not mean I agree with her. We are consolidating a two tier system in this principle of co-location. In terms of the direction people take when they come into a hospital we are saying that people with resources will...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)

Alex White: I do not see the necessity for the proposal in respect of the Order of Business having to be agreed in the manner suggested by the Leader. I agree with those speakers who stated this matter was not resolved in the previous session. I would not have thought there would have been a major problem with the matter being left to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to be discussed further....

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for the opportunity to participate in this interesting and important debate on the Constitution passed by the people on 1 July 1937 and commenced on 29 December 1937. We are a bit late to have an event to commemorate the 70th anniversary in the manner suggested by Senator Leyden but perhaps we can consider something more elaborate for the 75th anniversary...

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Alex White: In that context we rendered immune from constitutional challenge anything that would arise in the future. The current proposal on the child protection element of the children's referendum would render immune from any future constitutional challenge a provision that would be brought forward in law in respect of child protection. I do not say that this is not an extremely sensitive and...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I have not at any stage thought it was appropriate or desirable that we should second-guess the proceedings of the Mahon tribunal. I have always taken that view sternly and carefully. Now that the Taoiseach has seen fit to go to the High Court as part of what appears to be an unrelenting attack on the Mahon tribunal, I ask the Cathaoirleach to facilitate a debate in this House and that the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I know what is happening. A hugely important constitutional question is being raised by the Taoiseach. I am entitled, as a Member of this House, of which the Mahon tribunal is a creature, to make the point that there ought to be a debate in this House, as there has been in the other House, in respect of the integrity of the Mahon tribunal. While the Taoiseach has not been in the House since...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: The Cathaoirleach will be aware that I never overstay my welcome on the Order of Business. I intend to finish on the following point. The notion of a dig-out has passed into the political lexicon in this country. There is no greater dig-out being afforded to the Taoiseach at present than the dig-out being given by his colleagues in Government — Fianna Fáil, the Greens and what is left...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: The notion that the Taoiseach would seek through this ruse to undermine in a most serious way the work of the Mahon tribunal is a disgrace. The silence of the Greens and others——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: ——undermines, possibly fatally, the respect of the Irish people for these Houses and the Constitution we spent so long debating last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I ask the Cathaoirleach for a ruling.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: Was what I said out of order? Did I say anything that was out of order?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I want that clarified.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I want it made clear I was not out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: I accept that.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: Did the Senator have the tea?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Alex White: He is not a defendant.