Results 841-860 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The scheme is now in place and it is up to doctors to come forward and deliver the service we are paying them to deliver.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The health (transport support) Bill is important legislation which is likely to be forthcoming later this year. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, is working hard to ensure it is introduced. In respect of the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill, which is also critically important, work is well advanced on the legislation and it is expected and...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I may be incorrect and the Deputy may be correct but I am not sure the Education (Admission to School) Bill includes provisions on school transport. He and I can both check what the position is, however, as the Bill has been published and is awaiting Second Stage. As the Deputy will be aware, wind energy guidelines have been in place since 2006 and it is intended to publish revised...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: These are two important Bills. Work is continuing on the international protection Bill. There is a real wish to bring it forward as quickly as possible. The next stage will be the preparation of heads and it will then go to the committee for pre-legislative scrutiny. The judicial council Bill is listed for this session. I am advised its preparation is well advanced. I hope it can be...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I always marvel at the fact that there is criticism of a Minister giving details of financial allocations-----

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: -----then there is a query about the depletion in staff because the two things are directly connected. The allocation of resources allows us to recruit staff.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: That is why we indicate the various additional allocations of resources to the House. In response to the questions on the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015, the Deputy is aware, I think, that it has passed Second Stage and Committee Stage will be taken next Tuesday.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The planning and development (No.1) is incorporated in that legislation. There is no separate Bill forthcoming. Presumably that Bill will proceed to Committee Stage and the Deputy will have an opportunity to contribute to that.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Deputy is aware of the work and everything that is being achieved in this area. Any reasonable observer of what I said earlier could not conclude that I said, or accuse me of saying, everything is hunky dory.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: It is completely unfair of Deputy Finian McGrath to suggest that is what I said. I acknowledge the gaps.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I acknowledge the work that needs to be done but I demonstrated to him, as he should know, that far from engaging in the empty rhetoric that comes from him and over there-----

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: This Government is delivering on these issues because government is for delivery and sometimes, unfortunately, opposition is for empty rhetoric.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: We are doing the job we are here to do.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: -----but I would point out that the number had reduced from 247 in 2008. These are the actual facts. The Deputy raised some facts. He has to acknowledge that these are also facts.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Sometimes the facts and figures obscure the real human situations that lie behind the health issues and demands that many people have. This is particularly true in the area of mental health. When we are accused of failing to deliver or not addressing the real issues that exist, we have to give the House the facts and figures. I make no apologies for doing that in this case. I will give...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: There is a nervous laugh from the other side every time I make that point.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Of course the job of the Opposition-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: -----is to point up gaps in services.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: If we are to have any hope of making-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Alex White: -----progress in the area of mental health services, we have to agree on what are the basic requirements.