Results 4,921-4,940 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: National Asthma Programme (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: We are moving that on as quickly as we possibly can.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Internet Pornography (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. We all accept that the web is one of the great innovations of our age. It has already brought huge benefits and has the potential to expand our knowledge in ways we could not have imagined only a few decades ago. Sadly, new innovations do not come with a guarantee against misuse. There are two distinct aspects of the Internet's evolution that...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: National Asthma Programme (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I thank Senator Power for raising this issue. It is good to have support and as Minister of State with responsibility for primary care, the more support I have from all sides of the House in regard to resources and the expansion and enhancement of primary care, the better. I agree with and thank the Senator for her remarks in that regard. The national clinical programme for asthma, which...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: It is not fair to introduce the officials into the matter. These decisions and proposals are made entirely politically by the Government, not by officials.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: Senator Mullen should accept it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I repeat that my key objection to this amendment is that it would risk undermining the protection that it the section is intended to give. If one has a doubt - if there is a phrase that talks about protecting something that is lawful in circumstances where something "may" happen - one must have protection-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: Whether one agrees with it or not, if one is going to have protection, it must be protection where something actually happens. To start introducing language such as introducing protection for something that "may" happen-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: -----introduces a complete lack of clarity and, in my mind, doubt.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I am unsure whether I understand fully the rationale for this amendment, even though I have listened carefully to Senator Rónán Mullen. In the first instance, I will give a general response and will then seek to consider precisely what he has said in support of his amendment. As was stated on Committee Stage, the Bill, as drafted, reflects the policy requirements to implement...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: May I have the protection of the Chair?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: It is what is lawful that is protected and it must be clear in what one is doing. If one uses language such as "may be ended" or "may be lost" so that, for example, section 8, from the middle of the second line, would read, "it shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result of which, an...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: Who is the person to whom the Senator refers?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: No, the Senator should place it on the record.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: Plenty of obstetricians-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I really must-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: This is an issue of order. There was no request to ask anybody to abuse privilege.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: There was no allegation made against anybody. No adverse statement was made in respect of a single person. If so-called evidence is being put on the record so late in the debate, then it is not unreasonable to request the source of that evidence.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: We must listen to everything the Senator says and we do so. However, if she is putting forward some additional evidence which, she says, she was informed about by an Irish obstetrician today, it is not unreasonable to ask the identity of that individual.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: That makes it much more difficult to rely on the evidence.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Alex White: I merely asked the Senator to supply the name. Asking someone a question is not ballyragging.