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Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Report and Final Stages. (25 Mar 2010)

Alex White: I second recommendation No. 2.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage. (24 Mar 2010)

Alex White: I would like to share time with my colleague, Senator Norris.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage. (24 Mar 2010)

Alex White: Particularly in discussing the economy and our future I am all in favour of hope. We all want to have a debate characterised by hope in order that we can be genuinely positive and face the future in that vein. That is the basis upon which any of us would like to come to this debate. Certainly, there is need for a restoration of hope and confidence in the economy. However, my problem with...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage. (24 Mar 2010)

Alex White: I hear voices opposite again showing this wishful thinking as if one can talk it back into existence. Social partnership is at an end, as stated by the parties involved, not me. By its meaning, partnership requires people who want to work together while supporting, not undermining each other. It is simply not possible to talk social partnership back into being when one cuts the wages of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2010)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Mar 2010)

Alex White: Of course it is ludicrous to suggest that the Minister should be held responsible for not opening particular letters or envelopes in Tallaght hospital. It is nonsensical to suggest it and to the extent that it has been suggested I do not agree with it. However, there is a real issue for political representatives. Because of all the changes that have occurred and the arrival of the HSE on...

Seanad: Irish Language: Statements (10 Mar 2010)

Alex White: Ar dtús, aontaím leis an méíd a bhí le rá ag Seanadóir Mooney. Caithfimid go léir níos mó iarracht a dhéanamh chun an Ghaeilge a úsáid sa Seanad agus lasmuigh den Oireachtas. Déanann an Seanadóir Walsh, atá sa Chathaoir faoi láthair, an-iarracht a Ghaeilge líofa a úsáid. Ba chóir dúinn go léir níos mó obair den chineál sin a dhéanamh. Cuirim fáilte roimh an...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2010)

Alex White: Will the Leader indicate what is proposed about the reports in the newspapers today that thousands of marriages conducted at embassies in Dublin have apparently been declared invalid? Will he indicate whether the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, or the relevant Minister, will respond to this extraordinary state of affairs, whereby hundreds of people who have lived in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Alex White: I support Senator Fitzgerald's call for a debate on banking and, with her permission, second her proposed amendment to the Order of Business. We are about to see the first big test for the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in the next few weeks in the context of what we have been reading in recent days about the hotel industry. Many Members on the Government benches were concerned...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010)

Alex White: I did not say that.

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010)

Alex White: I welcome the Minister of State on the occasion of the publication of this extremely important report which is founded on a high level of consensus across the political divide. I endorse the comments of my colleagues regarding the input of all parties into the report. In particular, I commend the Minister of State on his consistent engagement and regular attendance at committee meetings....

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Alex White: I join with others in welcoming Senator Mark Dearey to the House and I wish him well. The benches opposite are changing Members with dizzying frequency at the moment, and I think Senator Dearey, who I do not know but of whom I know, will add considerably to the business and work of this House. I wish him well in that regard. I do not want to say too much about the developments this morning...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Alex White: I find it extraordinary that you should say it is not relevant.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Alex White: It is spectacular to suggest that public discourse and public trust in the institutions of the State, including the Government, would not be relevant to the Parliament. I am not seeking to stir it at all. In fact I am looking for the opposite, so that we do not have the sort of spectacle we had last week, where a resignation had to be dragged from a Minister, where people were sent on radio...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Alex White: It is a matter for the public. If it is not a matter for this House, then what is a matter for this House? I ask the Leader for a debate on the banks. Senator O'Toole seems to be in a better position to explain Government policy than the Government. He is right to say there is double speak and double think on this issue of credit. The principal basis upon which NAMA was advocated by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alex White: When our colleague former Senator Deirdre de Búrca resigned from the House last week, she stated one matter of great concern to her former colleagues was that the Green Party was having rings run around it by Fianna Fáil. We did not have long to wait in order that——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alex White: Does the Leader agree that we did not have long to wait to witness precisely what former Senator de Búrca was upset about?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alex White: It is entirely relevant. With great respect to the Cathaoirleach——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alex White: With great respect to the Cathaoirleach, it is entirely relevant to the business of the House. We have the spectacle of a Government, senior members of which claim to have confidence in the Minister in the other House, but others do not have that confidence here.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Alex White: What possible credibility could attach to any Government, the senior members of which appear not to be able to make up their minds in respect of confidence in a senior, experienced Minister of considerable longevity in the Cabinet? We are aware Deputy Gogarty has a background in circus performances but it would appear now the entire Green Party has reduced itself to a circus act. It takes...