Results 8,781-8,800 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: When an amendment is ruled out of order on Report Stage because it does not arise out of committee proceedings, it is open to Members to move a motion to have the matter recommitted. I have done this in the past.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I propose that the Bill be recommitted in respect of amendment No. 4.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: Senator Boyle appears to be chomping at the bit to speak to the substance of the amendment, although he failed to speak on Committee Stage. He has shown contempt for the House by submitting an amendment and allowing it not to be moved, thus preventing Senators from speaking on it.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I was invited to speak.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: It seems some Members opposite do not know on what they voted. They had to be told they voted against the recommital of an amendment which they drafted. In any event, they will find out in due course if they have any interest. I thank the Minister of State for his time. I can only endorse what Senator Regan said. At certain stages this afternoon, this exercise approached high farce....
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I move amendment No. 11: In page 13, line 8, to delete "A member" and substitute the following: "Without prejudice to any other power to conduct an investigation existing apart from this section, a". The basis for this amendment is that the High Court has already upheld the validity of investigations of the type referred to in this section. In those circumstances, confusion might be caused...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: The advice the Minister of State received appears not to be correct. If the section is to be passed in its current form it will lead to the type of exposure outlined. With respect, the Minister of State is wrong in this regard. If he is resting on the advice obtained, even in the face of the point having been put to him, there is not a great deal that can be done.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: It is sometimes gratifying to have one's professional background acknowledged by a Minister. However, I am not here in that capacity but as a Member of the Seanad, as is Senator Regan. The fact that we are lawyers has nothing to do with it. This matter is before the Seanad and all the Minister of State can say is "No". He says he has advice which tells him not to proceed with it. He is...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: Senator Regan should move the amendment.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I move the amendment.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: Senator Quinn moved an amendment put down by me earlier as I was not here.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: As a matter of fact, I did not.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: To be clear, I did not give anybody permission to move the amendment. That is a fact. We did not discuss it. Senator Quinn moved my amendment when he saw I was not here. He took a decision to move it without any discussion with me. It is not the case that permission is required. The Leas-Chathaoirleach did not ask Senator Quinn whether he had my permission to move the amendment, so why...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: It is cynicismââ
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I moved it.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: I ask the Leas-Chathaoirleach to give me a ruling on where the issue of permission arises. In what respect is it required that a Senator, when moving someone else's amendment, requires his or her permission?
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: Is it in Standing Orders?
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: But is it in Standing Orders?
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: We have Standing Orders. Either they regulate the procedures of the House or they do not.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)
Alex White: There could be a motion to recommit.