Results 1,161-1,180 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: I do not have a date for either of those Bills at this point.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: I will have to revert to the Deputy in respect of the criminal procedure legislation, which is an important area of law. The mediation Bill will be later this year. I do not have a date for the National Archives legislation.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: It is very regrettable that it now appears there is likely to be a strike this weekend. This is a pity as it will have an impact not just on the workers concerned, which I understand, but also on commuters across the country on a bank holiday weekend. It is regrettable and a great pity that it could not have been avoided and averted. I am not, contrary to the Deputy's accusation, in the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: When one prepares for Leader's Questions, the writings of Noam Chomsky are not usually in one's briefing notes. I must congratulate Deputy Daly for being able to bring in quotations from both Chomsky and Connolly but let us look at the real issues that are facing the people of Dublin and the people in the bus company. The Deputy is wrong in her great survey and is all over the shop on the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: The problem is that when people make an allegation and get an answer they do not like they try to stop one answering. The fact is that this Government is investing in public transport and in the bus companies.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport recently put on record his commitment to securing an increase in the subvention provided to the companies to deliver additional services and increase frequency for commuters. The Deputies do not want to hear that either. This year, for the first time since 2008, the PSO contribution for bus and rail services is being maintained at the same level...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: That is action taken by this Government and by the two parties in government. I am proud of what the Labour Party is doing in government in every respect. I would like to debate with the Deputy at some point her perspective on what Connolly would do today or what he would think we should be doing today. I would not mind having that debate with the Deputy some time to expose the absolute...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: I look forward to doing it on another occasion.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: It is proposed to take No. 33, Spring Economic Statement, April 2015 (resumed) and No. 1, Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders that the postponed division on the motion for the Second Reading of the Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces)...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: What the debate over the past few days indicates is the utter bankruptcy of the Sinn Féin Party with regard to any kind of vision or any kind of economic future for this country or any kind of a coherent sense of what has to happen and what is happening in terms of restoring our economy, creating jobs-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: -----and facing the future in a confident way.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: There would be no recovery if we had listened to Sinn Féin and its leader and there certainly would be no recovery-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: ----- if we were to follow the kind of policies, if one can even call them that, that Sinn Féin advocates. In respect of the issue Deputy Tóibín raised, the review that has been announced by the Minister for Finance, as he well knows, will cover transactions that resulted in a capital loss to IBRC of at least €10 million during the period concerned, or that are...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: -----thoroughly and expeditiously given their access to all the books and records of IBRC, the resources at their disposal to conduct such a review and the power set out under the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act which allows the Minister to make this direction in the public interest. To address potential conflicts of interest, with the agreement of the special liquidators, the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: It is.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: It is a classic tactic of Sinn Féin to level allegations, which have no grounds and for which the Deputy has presented no grounds-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: -----masquerading as a question. That is a classic tactic of the party.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: There is absolutely no basis for that.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: I am a member of the Cabinet and I am certainly not aware, and I can only answer for myself, but I believe that the manner in which the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Alex White: -----poses questions, a little like the way his party colleagues, including Deputy McDonald, operate in this House, is to make allegations without any foundation-----