Results 7,681-7,700 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: I heard Senator O'Toole speak about this again. He will change everything because he is suddenly back fighting. I heard this prize fighter nonsense before about the Taoiseach. We heard it the last time and we are ready for it this time.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: The Taoiseach will not only have to give a bombastic performance on the "News at One", but will have to justify what he did and did not do when he was Minister for Finance, what he did and did not do during the worst economic crisis this country has ever faced, and he will be called to account by the people for the disaster he created and for the fact he did banjax the economy.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: He will be called to account, and all the smugness in the world from over there will not save him or any of the people over there.
- 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?
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: That is an interesting point. It is a new perspective.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: Is that why the Government did not intervene?
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: No. Perhaps other parties did, but we did not.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: That was really safe.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: Safety first.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: It was the Leader who started interrupting.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: And a partridge in a pear tree.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: Senator Boyle should relax.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: It is not agreed. It is not necessary.
- Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)
Alex White: It is not agreed.
- 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: 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 â¬6 billion, we know the proportion that is attributable to social welfare payments, including the...
- 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...