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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015) Alex White: Thank you, Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: Like the Deputy, I regret the incident that occurred the other day, particularly from the perspective of the prison officers involved. Prison officers are professionals who do a great job, often under considerable pressure and not least in the context of an incident such as this, which may well be an unusual and isolated one. I agree with the Deputy that the welfare of prison officers and...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: I will come to the question of resources. The Garda and the PSNI must be allowed to get on with the work they do so well and professionally on our behalf. It is not possible or would not be appropriate for us to pick at individual aspects of their work. I agree with the Deputy that the issue of resources has a wider, political dimension. I agree with the Taoiseach in the sense that...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: The Minister for Justice and Equality has dealt very carefully and very well with this issue-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: -----particularly with regard to the resourcing of An Garda Síochána and the Prison Service. It is extraordinary for Deputy Collins to talk about the moratorium having been continued by this Government when it was his party in Government which put it in place. I find it difficult sometimes to understand the position of Fianna Fáil Deputies. Do they agree with what this...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: On the question of resources, the Deputy asked specific questions about particular requests but I do not know the extent or number of requests for armed escorts that were made. I will check that for the Deputy and revert to him-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: -----as best as I can. The Deputy has no evidence and has not placed any on the record of this House, despite his bleatings-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: -----that any particular incident occurred - either yesterday or on another occasion - because of a lack of resources.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: He has not done that because that evidence is not there.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy wants to make a political point out of a very regrettable and very dangerous incident which he should not attempt to do. The Minister for Justice and Equality is dealing with this question. She has won a considerable amount of new resources for An Garda Síochána to be used across the board-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: -----including an additional investment of €7 million for the purchase of 370 new vehicles towards the end of last year. The Members opposite do not want to hear this information because it does not suit the narrative they are trying to convey. This Government is dealing with a recovering economy and will put resources in place, as required, across the board for all of our public...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: It is a good day when Sinn Féin is coming forward with a new policy. We have not seen very much of that-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: I welcome that and look forward to reading the policy. We will see how well it stacks up alongside some of the party's other policies on the economy. It appears now that the Sinn Féin approach to JobBridge generally is that it ought to be scrapped but I understand that the policy proposals published today make suggestions as to how it can be improved or replaced by something very...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy has raised a number of issues. Glimpses of reasonableness come out here and there in what he said about what the Government is doing. He is acknowledging fairly that the Government is bringing forward policies in the area of apprenticeships. These are substantive and, ultimately will be, successful policies on apprenticeships. There was an increase of over 40% in...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: Members can be critical-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: -----can call for more action, can suggest more needs to be done with JobBridge and can press for more apprentices but they cannot deny the facts that are staring them in the face, which is that the Government has turned around the economy and more jobs are being created every day of the week. No Deputy on the Opposition side can deny it because they can see it in their constituencies. Of...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: I thank Deputy Tom Fleming for raising this important issue. The Government will invest €260 million in child care this year, supporting child care provision for more than 100,000 children in the State. Despite budgetary pressures, the Government was determined to protect the early childhood care and education programme so that children continue to have access to this vital...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: I will communicate the Deputy's insights to the Minister, Deputy James Reilly. Many of the points he raised are valid. It is not a question of the Government waking up to the importance of child care. We are very conscious of the importance of proper systems of child care and investing in the sector. Like every other sector, its ability to expand was arrested by the fact that resources...
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: As both Bills listed for today have already been brought to a conclusion, it is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) the sitting shall be suspended immediately after the Order of Business until 2 p.m. at which time Topical Issues shall be taken; and (2) the next fortnightly Friday sitting for the purposes of Standing Orders 21(1)(a) and 28(3) shall be on 6 March...
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Alex White: It will be taken on 20 March.