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Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Alex White: As a member of the committee, I believe it should, in fact, address this issue urgently.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I agree. It is an urgent matter. A meeting of the committee should be arranged at the earliest possible date in order that it may be addressed in that forum. On the debate which the Leader has arranged for tomorrow evening, I welcome the fact that we are to have a debate on the situation in Gaza. All reasonable persons would agree that what occurred yesterday morning was most shocking and...

Seanad: Whistleblowing in the Financial Sector: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I wish to share time with Senator Hannigan.

Seanad: Whistleblowing in the Financial Sector: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

Alex White: One of the most frustrating things about these debates on transparency and the need for new legislation and measures to deal with whistleblowing and related matters is the extent to which people give the impression that there has only been a recent discovery or realisation of the necessity for such measures. Senator Ross referred to this. Senator Boyle hopes there will not be another...

Seanad: Whistleblowing in the Financial Sector: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Senator Boyle, rightly, said legislation was an important element of what required to be done and he hoped it would be done quickly. When will the Minister bring forward these proposals? It is not good enough to say it will happen in the autumn, although I know that anti-corruption legislation is planned. We have heard an impressive survey of the problems and obstacles associated with...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jun 2010)

Alex White: There is an emerging crisis in the funding of higher education. Given its seriuosness, I ask the Deputy Leader to arrange a debate on the matter urgently. I ask him to explain, if he can - I do not see how he can - how it is possible to reconcile very deep cuts in the funding of the third level sector which have now been signalled to take place this autumn and the constant refrain about...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I welcome the publication last week of the two reports into the banking system. We will have the opportunity to debate them later but there is so much to discuss and so much material in these reports, it will not be possible for us to deal with them in one debate and it will be an issue to which we will have to return in the coming days, weeks and months. There is much talk in the Houses...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I am happy to allow Senator Norris to make a Bloomsday entrance into the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Absolutely. I agree with my colleagues on what occurred yesterday. Senator Fitzgerald captured the essential emotion of the occasion. It was a deeply, searingly emotional event for the people directly involved, the people of the city of Derry, the wider population of Northern Ireland, this country and the United Kingdom. It was an event of truly momentous importance, not just for what...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: On a point of order, what briefing documents from the Leader's office are being referred to? What are they? I have never heard of them.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Does the Leader write all the briefing notes himself?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: It does to some extent.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Professor Honohan stated in his report that Government policy clearly played a central role in contributing to the crisis. He said that macro-economic and budgetary policies contributed significantly to the economic overheating, relying to a clearly unsustainable extent on the construction sector and other transient sources for Government revenue and encouraging the property boom via various...

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: This is the old language of Deputy Bertie Ahern. One says one thing but then one carries on as if one did not say it. Senator Cassidy is very good at that as well. He is an exponent of the art of delusion where one says one thing but in fact one carries on as if one had not said it.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: The consequences of accepting responsibility for bringing the country to the brink of ruin is that one should leave office.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Senator Cassidy had the gall to say that the people have confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government, which they manifestly do not. If he is so clear that is the case he should put it to the test.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: There is nothing terribly wrong about having an election; it is a perfectly democratic exercise. If the Government is so confident that the people——

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Is this a debate or is it some sort of pub talk?

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Alex White: That is the sort of activity that the Members opposite appear to want to engage in. We either have a debate or we do not. I never heard such nonsense as the Tánaiste saying we are personalising the debate around the Taoiseach. If one is to talk about the Taoiseach's performance, one must talk about the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach's name is Brian Cowen. To that extent the debate is being...