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

Alex White: That is a matter of fact. The people opposite do not like facts.

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

Alex White: They are the facts. The other fact is that yesterday we were told that unemployment in this country is now 3% above the European Union average. That is the state of affairs we have reached in this country. Anyone who has any sense of reality cannot possibly invoke the banking reports in support of the Government's position. The absolute contrary is the case. One only has to read the...

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

Alex White: We now have a little word from the "continuity PDs".

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

Alex White: The people were at the heart of all of this occurring——

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

Alex White: I respect that but I only have eight minutes and I will not allow any of it to be taken by interruptions. If I am interrupted I will respond in kind. We only have to look at the television programmes to show the historical fact that one of the intellectual influences on the Government in the past 15 years was from Senator O'Malley's former party, if it still exists or if she is still in it....

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

Alex White: The fact is that the Progressive Democrats were at the heart of Government and the decisions that were made by the then Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy——

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

Alex White: ——and by Deputy Cowen when he was Minister for Finance. They have us where we are. That is the reason for the present situation. There is no confidence. Everyone knows the vote will go through in the same way as it did in the Dáil. I accept and respect that, constitutionally, the Government has a mandate from the people based on the previous election. However, it does not have a...

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

Alex White: Did the Senator oppose or support them?

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

Alex White: The Senator is invoking them now.

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

Alex White: The Progressive Democrats wanted no stamp duty.

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

Alex White: At least they had an election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: On the legislation dealing with the election of the Dublin mayor, I remind the House that there are only three sitting weeks remaining in the Dáil and I understand this House. Perhaps there will be another week-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I am grateful that the Leader has confirmed that the House will sit for an extra week. I presume that the Bill will go before the Dáil first, if it is to appear before the summer. That leaves a period of only two weeks during which it can appear before the Dáil because I do not believe it is on the Dáil Order Paper to be taken this week. Is there any possibility that it will appear...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I join with others who have spoken in remembering Senator Peter Callanan, a most valued colleague in this House. I remember him with great affection, as a party leader and as an ordinary Member coming in here for the first time three years ago. He was most welcoming, most interested in our backgrounds and solicitous for our welfare. He had a great sense of humour and was an interesting man...

Seanad: Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Bhí mé ag éisteacht leis an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire agus ag an Seanadóir Ó Murchú ó thaobh na dréachtstraitíse de. Is cóir dúinn sa Seanad an straitéis seo a phlé. Tá an comhchoiste ag obair ar an straitéis faoi láthair ach is maith an rud don Teach seo díospóireacht a bheith againn. Tá sé níos deacra páirt a ghlacadh i ndíospóireacht as Gaeilge. Ní rud...

Seanad: Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 7, to delete "Section" and substitute the following: "In respect of the election due to be held in 2010 only, section". Ba mhaith liom an méid atá le rá ag an Aire a chloisteáil sula socróidh mé an gcuirfidh mé an leasú seo don vótáil.

Seanad: Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Is prionsabal an-tábhachtach é go mbeidh na toghcháin ann. Mar a dúirt an Seanadóir Doherty, caithfidh an tAire cúis a thabhairt don Seanad, ní gá dúinn argóint a chur os comhair an Tí. Tá an Rialtas ag teacht isteach anseo le rá nach mbeidh toghchán ann. That is extremely serious; the Government comes into Parliament to propose that elections not be held. Sin toghchán a...

Seanad: Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Glacaim leis sin ach is féidir go fóill go mbeidh an plean ag an Rialtas. Bhí vóta againn ar an Dára Céim agus anois is léir nach mbeidh toghchán i mí Dheireadh Fómhair. De réir an leasaithe atá curtha síos ag Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, ní tharlóidh seo arís. Mar a dúirt an Seanadóir Doherty, ní dhéanfaidh sin aon dochar. Is féidir a rá nach ndéanfaidh sé aon...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: When the House returns in the autumn after the summer recess - that is, if there is the same configuration in these Houses as there is at present and according to who is in Government - there will be a short period of three months or perhaps less, before the budget. We had many phoney debates in the House last year about the budget and about the proposals for cuts. The debate became quite...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Has Senator Boyle read the document?