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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Alex White: We must have a general election first.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Senator Walsh would know about being in hock.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Senator Walsh's party knows about being in hock.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Fianna Fáil invented being in hock.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Fianna Fáil has made an art form out of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Whether we have a debate on the IMF-EU programme either today or on Thursday, I would have thought an essential first step would be circulation of the document to Members of the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Where is the document about which people are talking? Like everybody else, I read the newspapers. Is it not bizarre that not even one screed of paper on what this incredibly important programme is supposed to contain has been circulated to us? We are told the memorandum of understanding is before the Cabinet and will be published and brought before the Dáil. Can we see the document? The...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: It was a political decision.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: The deal done on Sunday was pretty secret also.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: Better ask the IMF.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Nov 2010)

Alex White: We do not vote on the budget.

Seanad: EU-IMF Programme for Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2010)

Alex White: It is true that a majority of the people who are often invoked in this House believe in the future of the country and our collective ability to turn things around. However, the problem is that the people have been let down by the Government. In all of their positiveness and hope for the future, they were told things about the banking crisis which were manifestly untrue. I accept there is...

Seanad: EU-IMF Programme for Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2010)

Alex White: -----and one of which we should take note and demand that it be addressed, particularly in the Lower House but also in this House because I accept the Government is principally accountable to the Lower House. I find it inexplicable from the point of view of the integrity of these Houses and the integrity of the our political and democratic system that the Government should purport to agree...

Seanad: EU-IMF Programme for Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2010)

Alex White: It involves legislation.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: I do not accept it is dishonest to say we can make the kind of adjustment that undoubtedly is required without affecting social welfare. I do not accept that, so I must be blunt about it. In circumstances where the Government has engaged in an adjustment in this budget of the order of €6 billion, we know the proportion that is attributable to social welfare payments, including the...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: The middle of March.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: Is that the date for the election?

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: They were not writing our budget.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Alex White: Is that why the Government did not do it?