Results 8,701-8,720 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: On the right.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: What is the position regarding legislation relating to the risk equalisation scheme?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: What is the position regarding legislation on risk equalisation?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: I second Senator Frances Fitzgerald's amendment to the Order of Business. We need to have a debate on the medical card for the over-70s issue today. Senator Joe O'Toole is correct that everyone in the country is talking about these issues while we seem to be the only body that is not, apart from the opportunity to raise it on the Order of Business. We should amend the Order of Business to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: The communitarian ideals the Minister argued in the Supreme Court in the BUPA case should be extended across the board. For once and for all, let us face up to the need to have a proper health service with the same minimum standard of health care for all citizens, irrespective of income. The risk equalisation scheme was interrupted in 2005 and has not yet come into place. When will the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Moloney, to the House. He has been having a rather rocky day, I understand, but I welcome him to the House. I am afraid I cannot agree with Senator de Búrca and I cannot go along with her congratulating the Minister or the Government on this issue. When at some time in the future we look back over the great achievements of the past ten to 15...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: It is about tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: There will be more tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Can the Leader indicate how many more changes, reversals or climbdowns are likely to result from the Budget Statement the Minister for Finance made in the other House last week? Does he agree that our community and society is a laughing stock, internationally and domestically, because the budget, which is the major economic statement of the year, has degenerated into such a shambles over...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Senator Ormonde will support the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Alex White: There is more than one Opposition spokesperson on health.

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: To some extent I am sorry the Senator did not have an opportunity to elaborate further because, with all due respect to him, it might have been possible for those of us who were listening carefully to him to get to the bottom of what he was driving at in his cry for help for the construction industry and his apparent criticism of the banks for failing to ride to the rescue of the construction...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: I am not sure Senator Boyle has read them. He thinks they are a public sector panacea; they are not.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: Regarding the Budget Statement, many of us were hoping for a bold and innovative set of measures to rescue the country from its current economic situation. We got nothing of the sort. Instead, we got the launch of a number of liferafts by the Government to try to save the economy. I will either disagree with Senator O'Toole concerning the levy or nuance some of his comments. While this...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: In recent weeks and months, I wondered whether the inevitable tax increases would arrive before or after the final demise of the Progressive Democrats. The increases arrived just beforehand. It is a tax increase, yet the Government dares not speak its name. Senator O'Toole and others are correct regarding the 2% levy. If we want to go after higher earners, which I would advocate, we should...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Alex White: I have two positive comments. Since it may be due to the input of the Green Party, given that it is a decision consistent with the party's position prior to the election, I congratulate the Government on finally ending the sham of the so-called decentralisation programme. It is a welcome move and I congratulate the Government.