Results 8,781-8,800 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: He knows perfectly well that I have absolutely no responsibility in respect of granting permission for whatever it is he says his party is looking for regarding the GPO. I have not been asked to do so-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: -----because the person in his party, unlike the Deputy, presumably understands that the Minister does not make this decision.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: It is a matter for An Post, and everybody in this House knows that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy can play politics with it if he wants to. It is a pity that Sinn Féin, having said it is not playing party politics with an issue like this, then comes to the House and accuses somebody else of politicising the issue.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: The fact is that any decisions on the use of the GPO are entirely and exclusively a matter for An Post, and the Deputy has been around here long enough to know that perfectly well.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: That leads me to the conclusion that he is doing nothing other than seeking to politicise this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: He should not do that, and he is giving a lie to his own statement that he wants to seek a co-operative approach and so on by parties across the board. If there is an issue regarding An Post, he should take it to that company. It is a pity to hear the Deputy's attitude. The parties here should and can work together to ensure we have, as I said, a fitting and proper commemoration of 1916....
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: I do not agree with very much else the Deputy said, but I do agree with her last point, namely, that local authorities have to return to building houses. That is a critical element of the approach of the Government to addressing and solving the issue rather than just talking about it. In 2015, 7,400 new social housing units are targeted for delivery with a further 8,400 to be delivered...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: -----and more are now being planned.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 was commenced with effect from 1 September and this revises the earlier arrangements on social and affordable housing to maximise the delivery, building and construction of social housing units. With regard to financing social housing, we have put in place a significant Exchequer kick-start of €2.2 billion for budget 2015. These are...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: As the Leas Ceann Comhairle will appreciate, I am very happy at any time to answer for my party, the Labour Party, and I am proud to do so, but I am here representing the Government today and I am responding in that capacity. The Deputy opposite likes to mention my party. If one did a word search on her contribution, one would probably discover she referred to my party approximately ten...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: I will tell the House the difference between my party and her outfit over there. Instead of actually engaging in ridiculous stunts to get ourselves into court and into the newspapers-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: -----we take practical steps to address the issues facing the working people about whom she claims to be so concerned. She postures, just like the two people beside her, in the Chamber. They continually posture but social problems are there to be solved and not to be leveraged for political gain.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: That is what the three Members up at the top do, day in and day out.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: They oppose every practical measure. All of the people and NGOs involved in the debate believe modular housing can make a great contribution. What about Deputy Coppinger and her colleagues? Inexplicably, they flew in the face of all the housing and advocacy groups by opposing the immediate roll-out of 115 units of modular housing which are so urgently needed.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: They talk about an emergency. They went into the chamber of Dublin City Council and voted against it. That is not politics.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: That is hypocrisy, absolute hypocrisy. Since they are so obsessed with the Labour Party, I can tell them this - the difference is we see a necessity to solve social problems, we do not believe social problems are, as it were, a godsend for political recruitment.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: We see them as something to be solved and that is what we are doing.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: It is proposed to take No. 15a, motion re sittings and business of the Dáil to be taken without debate; No. 44, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed); No. 1, Choice of Court (Hague Convention) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Second Stage; and No. 6, Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed,...
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Alex White: The planning and development (No. 2) Bill is being drafted and is expected in this session. No decision has been made as to whether emergency legislation will be required.