Results 9,101-9,120 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----and in giving advice to individuals who are faced with these issues. It is completely untrue to say that this is a hands off approach. The fact is that number of people in arrears, the number of families in financial difficulties and household debt have reduced and are reducing, of that there is no question. When the Deputy Donnelly compares Ireland to other countries he is not always...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The reality is that we have achieved an enormous amount, we have stabilised the economy and the public finances and now there is hope for the people that the Deputy and I represent------
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----who have faced mortgage difficulties. They have hope, they can sense there is hope and this Government is giving them hope. That is what happening. Those are the specifics in terms of the approach that this Government has taken-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----and that is what will continue to work for the Irish people, namely, that the Government and politicians, and I include many politicians on both sides of the House, will work genuinely in the interests of their constituents and also in the interests of the country and in the interests of ensuring we have proper measures in place that are robust, that we have an economy that works and...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: It is proposed to take No. 12a, motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimate - Vote 38, and No 12b, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimate - Vote 38 to the select sub-committee. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 12ashall be decided without debate, and subject to the agreement of No. 12a, No. 12b, motion re referral to select sub-committee,...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The Deputies are well aware that there was legislation ordered for this House this morning. When the climate change legislation finished earlier than expected, presumably because there were no speakers. Deputy Troy was not here to make his big points about climate change on that occasion.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: Perhaps he was leaving that to somebody else to do but he was not here. There were some colleagues here for that debate and it finished before it was expected that it would.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: Then there was the Dublin Docklands legislation debated before the House and there was nobody here form the Opposition in respect of it.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: There was nobody.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: This is legislation that the Deputy claims-----
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----has direct and real consequences-----
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy's performance is not persuading anybody.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: This is the legislation, the docklands legislation, that the Deputy tells us is of direct and real consequences.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I am not talking to you; I am talking to the-----
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: This is legislation that Deputy Troy claims is of direct and real consequences to the people he represents, but neither he nor any of his colleagues could be bothered to be here to debate it.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: Let him not say that the Government is not ready to debate this legislation. Child care legislation was debated here as well.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The Government stands ready to debate these issues with the Opposition but if there is nobody on that side of the House, there is not much we can do.
- Estimates for Public Services 2015: Leave to Introduce (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December 2015:Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary Estimate).
- Estimates For Public Services 2015: Referral to Select Committee (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on 31st December 2015, the Supplementary Estimate be referred to the Select sub-Committee on Health, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and 159(3), which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 9th December:Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 272 and 273 together. The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This is being achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided. The commercial...