Results 8,241-8,260 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

Alex White: Yes, the Act can be amended.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

Alex White: "Strictly Come Dancing".

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I support Senator Fitzgerald's call for a debate on social workers, particularly those dealing with children. The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, should address the issue in this House. Like Senator Fitzgerald, I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. We hope to issue...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

Alex White: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I refer to next week's business dealing with the NAMA legislation. The Government has already made it clear publically that it intends to curtail debate in this House. It announced the legislation would return to the Dáil on Thursday week, 12 November. It has already made it very clear that the debate will finish here on Wednesday night. That will amount to the guts of three days' debate...

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I wish to share time with Senator Pearse Doherty.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I welcome this opportunity for a discussion on developments in Northern Ireland and welcome the Minister. Much of his speech could not be disagreed with. It was a reasonable summary of what has happened to date, the position on the institutions, policing and justice, and other areas of controversy that are slowly but surely winding their way towards resolution. I agree with the Minister's...

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I go there frequently, in fact.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: There is somebody speaking in my ear. I am not sure who it is.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: Senator White has gratuitously taken the view that I do not visit the North.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: I can show her my diary and demonstrate to her that in fact I do. We are not in a confession box here; we do not have to specify exactly how many times we have visited Northern Ireland. However, I can assure my colleague-----

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: -----that I certainly do go there, and I know other Members of the House do too.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: What is the problem? Nobody has a claim to absolute righteousness in that regard.

Seanad: Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2009)

Alex White: Mainly thanks to Senator Mary White who has taken up a good minute and a half of it. The economic crisis changes the parameters of the debate. I note the Minister's statement that "the most immediate challenges facing Northern Ireland are not issues which divide people along Nationalist and Unionist lines". He is correct in this regard. The challenges are much greater, and the political...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Business Plan: Statements (29 Oct 2009)

Alex White: There is no point in, as Senator Boyle said, planning the future on the basis that we hope the public will gradually gain confidence in this process, which is a flawed basis for proceeding. Unless there is confidence in the taxpayers and the public committing themselves to what is proposed now, and unless that confidence is sought and achieved now, it will fundamentally undermine what is...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Business Plan: Statements (29 Oct 2009)

Alex White: I wish to share time with Senator Doherty.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Alex White: I support the call by Senator Twomey for the debate next week to which he referred. I already raised the issue, as others have, on the Order of Business of the lamentable failure of the Government to take meaningful steps to engage, particularly with the trade union movement, in the context of what is currently happening. I have two concerns. One is that it may be too late at this stage,...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Alex White: If that was amended, would the Senator support it?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)

Alex White: Just passing attention.