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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.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: It is true we do not have the complete solution for every individual faced with this situation-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: -----today, because as the Members opposite must accept, one cannot produce houses in a day or a week.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: What one can do, however, is ensure the funding is put in place to deliver those houses, ensure the money is there and bring it forward.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: One can have measures, such as modular housing, which the lady in question could well avail of.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: One could have measures in the rent legislation, which we are producing in this House.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: Every time I mention another measure, I get heckled-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: -----because the Deputies opposite know that these are practical, serious solutions to a problem that they just want to talk about.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Alex White: I cannot promise to bring the proposals of any party to Cabinet.