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Seanad: School Accommodation (22 Apr 2008)

Alex White: I thank the Cathaoirleach for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment. It concerns two combined schools on the same site in Knocklyon in Dublin, namely St. Colmcille's senior and junior schools. They are highly successful schools with exceptional input from their staff and students with a marvellous level of respect and support in the community. The difficulty is...

Seanad: School Accommodation (22 Apr 2008)

Alex White: I believe there will be considerable disappointment at the response given by the Minister of State. Describing the accommodation in these schools as constituting a shortfall is the greatest understatement I have heard recently. It is much more than a shortfall. These schools have serious needs. Does the Minister of State agree that the response represents a deterioration of any prospects...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2008)

Alex White: What are we listening to now?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2008)

Alex White: I support the comments of Senators O'Toole and Fitzgerald on the Lisbon treaty debate. I did not hear the Leader's remarks last week and, therefore, I cannot comment on them. It does not serve us at all to engage in such cross-party slagging about who is doing more on the issue. We all have a responsibility to explain the terms of the treaty. Fine Gael is doing that where I live. In case...

Seanad: Death of Former President: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Apr 2008)

Alex White: On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish to be associated with the tributes to the former President, Dr. Paddy Hillery. His death represents the passing of another member of an extraordinary generation of politicians, namely, those who were born immediately after independence and who came to prominence in the middle part of the previous century. As Senator Cassidy and previous speakers stated,...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: Unlike my colleague, Senator Walsh, I do not have a difficulty with elevating the necessity for tax compliance to the level it is in legislation. It is important that all public officials are tax compliant, that they are seen to be tax compliant and can certify themselves as tax compliant. I would not exclude a member of the Judiciary from such a requirement. It is a novel suggestion that...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: It is more of a courtesy and I accept it in terms of the protocol of the House. In terms of what was stated on the legal profession and fees, I would welcome a debate on lawyers' fees. We could have it in this House and I would have no problem participating in it. It might be more interesting than the brickbats which go across the House on this subject. Let us ask whether it is right that...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: If the Green Party introduces a Bill, we will support it.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: It has not done that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: The position has become worse.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: So it is okay then.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: Absolutely, among others.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: What about Senator Norris?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: We thought the Leader was a shining light, too.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: On behalf of the Labour Party in this House, I extend our congratulations to Deputy Brian Cowen on his elevation today to the leadership of the Fianna Fáil party. Without wishing to draw the Cathaoirleach into the fray, as he almost was yesterday, he is entitled to a certain amount of vicarious satisfaction from what happened this morning. We wish the Minister well in his new position. He...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2008)

Alex White: Clearly, I want a debate. We should have a serious debate on the economic future of the country with the new Taoiseach or the new Minister for Finance. Let us have all issues open, including this extraordinary inequality, which is one of the unfortunate legacies of the boom.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Alex White: It was not abuse. I object to that being described as abuse.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Alex White: I ask for that remark to be withdrawn.