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Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Has Senator Boyle read the document?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: No problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: They should wobble to the left a little.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Alex White: Very sad.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Alex White: They had to give them something.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Alex White: That is the figure for the unemployed.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Alex White: I assure Senator O'Toole that there are many in the legal profession who are just as appalled, shocked and amazed as he is at the story he related and the level of fees marked in the case mentioned. As the decision is being appealled, we cannot debate the matter in too much detail. However, the Senator's amazement is shared across the legal profession. It would be a mistake for anyone to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Alex White: I have no difficulty in having a debate on the PIAB. I respectfully disagree with Senator O'Toole on his point about the attempt made to exclude the possibility of people receiving the advice and assistance of lawyers in a personal injuries action. That was always wrong and the decision of the Supreme Court was correct, but that issue is separate from that of the level of fees claimed which...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Alex White: The Green Party is a 2% margin of error.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: Listening to Senator Boyle it struck me, as it has often struck me while listening to speakers from the Government side, that if the Government were to be more realistic and less robust about some of the claims it makes on the impact of some of its policies, its expectation that critics would temper what may be exaggerated criticism would be easier to accept. I say to Senator Boyle, that...

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: -----and would be likely to attract a profit. The Minister does not know that.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: Of course, the Minister does not know that; he just cannot say.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: I am reading plenty of things. Of course the Minister does not know definitively-----

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: -----any more than I do. That is precisely the point I am making.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: The former Fianna Fáil people who are heckling me from beyond do not know either. Let us try to be more realistic. I am urging those on both sides - I am prepared to take on board some of this myself - that if we are more realistic in the claims we are making and sometimes in some of the criticism, we might make more progress in what we are trying to do with the economy which is in such a...

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: Created.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: It was.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: There will be plenty of time tomorrow.

Seanad: Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Alex White: I move amendment No. 1: In page 10, before section 4, but in Part 1, to insert the following new section: "4.—On the cessation date, the Freedom of Information Act 1997 is amended by inserting— (a) in paragraph 1(2) of the First Schedule, "the Central Bank of Ireland,", and (b) in Part I of the Third Schedule at the end thereof— (i) in column (2), "Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2010", and...