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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Forthcoming Energy Council: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (24 Nov 2015)

Alex White: ...agenda item on Thursday, it is ever-present because it is an energy policy for the citizens of Europe, not just for the governments. The extent to which the citizens of the EU, including Ireland, feel alienated from energy policy, do not understand why certain decisions are made, disagree with some of the decisions that are made or do not feel they have an opportunity for input, is very...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Alex White: ...area of dealing only with Eircodes, section 66D sets out the complaints procedure that would apply. Deputy Catherine Murphy argued that there is no facility available to individual citizens who feel aggrieved. Citizens may avail of the existing protections under the Data Protection Act in respect of personal data, and where a complaint is related solely to the simple Eircode, they have...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: ...and provides an additional opportunity for an aggrieved person to make a complaint. A robust complaints procedure is being inserted in the legislation which can be availed of by individuals who feel aggrieved for any of the reasons the Deputy mentioned or others, but they will also still have the right to go the Data Protection Commissioner in the event of a breach of the Data Protection...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Alex White: ...lack of understanding is the problem with our current debate and we are all - State agencies and Government - somewhat responsible for this. We have ended up in a situation where too many people feel victims of energy policy rather than participants in it with an opportunity to have an input into the policy and, perhaps, to produce energy-efficient themselves, whether on farms or in local...

Seanad: Broadband, Post Office Network and Energy White Paper: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Alex White: .... One of the challenges of public life and making public policy is that we should have a negotiated set of policies and way to deliver important public policy projects. It is no good if people feel like victims of a policy in an area as critical as energy. As communities and a broader society, we will all need energy in the future. We will need a sufficient supply of energy, especially...

Topical Issue Debate: Energy Prices (15 Jan 2015)

Alex White: ...equates to a saving of more than €300 a year by switching electricity and gas suppliers. However, I fully appreciate that some customers, particularly older and more vulnerable people, are reluctant or feel unable to switch. In this situation I urge all stakeholders, including the energy companies and the regulator, to make the more vulnerable customer categories aware of the...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Alex White: ...and engagement with people. There will be. Such negotiations and engagement are under way. It is very easy to fall into the trap of decrying and criticising bureaucrats. I understand the frustration people sometimes feel, not just with the health services. We need good people to administer our health services. Of course we need doctors and medical professionals but we also need people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (27 May 2014)

Alex White: I am advised by the HSE that refund claims from clients are processed on a case by case basis. Applicants who feel they have incurred medical costs as a result of undue delay on the part of PCRS in processing their medical card application may submit a request for a refund enclosing the relevant receipts for consideration. The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Alex White: ...the income limits. That is where the doctor is involved in the assessment for a medical card. The doctor does not give a medical report on the severity of the illness. This may sound harsh but I feel it necessary to state the position clearly. The doctor and panel are involved in assessing the expenses that are reasonably associated with that illness or condition. It is not the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (7 May 2014)

Alex White: I know the frustration Deputies often feel, which I often share, when they hear about something being under consideration but it is not always a cover for inactivity. In fact, it is something we are considering very carefully because the approach our health services take, particularly to chronic illnesses such as diabetes, will shape how we configure our health services more generally in the...

Topical Issues Debate: Speech and Language Therapy (19 Dec 2013)

Alex White: ...has made and can only agree with her in regard to the circumstances she has described. The need for a speech and language therapy service is clear. The problem is the constraint on resources. I feel very strongly about the issue of front-line staff and I would certainly support recruitment as soon as resources allow us to recruit for these necessary posts. However, the position is as I...

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Alex White: ...for blood tests in circumstances where it is necessary to assist the process of diagnosis or to monitor a condition that has already been diagnosed. I accept as Deputy Healy said that people may feel that it is hard for them as patients to make a complaint. We have made our position clear publicly, to the IMO and again here today by me. To the extent that it is necessary for it to be...

Report of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications: Motion (8 Nov 2013)

Alex White: ..."sports sponsorship offers the perfect platform for companies to engage and interact with a team's followers. It has the power to connect at a deep emotional level with fans and change the way they feel about products and brands". These known outcomes echo the committee's acknowledgment that the sponsorship of sports by alcohol brands is far from ideal. This recognition of an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Alex White: I am advised by the HSE that refund claims from clients are processed on a case by case basis. Applicants who feel they have incurred medical costs as a result of undue delay on the part of PCRS in processing their medical card application may submit a request for a refund enclosing the relevant receipts for consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: ...card/GP Visit Card eligibility, PCRS may request further detail in the form of an additional medical report. If, at any time after a decision on their application is reached, an individual feels there has been a change in their circumstances material to their medical card eligibility, that person may submit to PCRS a new medical card application complete with all relevant supporting...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alex White: ...trouble she would rather be dead than continue as she was. On 31 January, in the course of a long discussion with a member of the Garda Síochána, she said: "I wish it were all over; sometimes I feel like throwing myself downstairs." And in the presence of another member of the Garda Síochána, when her father commented that the "situation was worse than a death in the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alex White: ...a number of women who have experienced this, some of them quite close to me. It is not a case of Members on this side of the House not understanding the human experience people have had. We all feel moved by it. However, can it be dealt with in this legislation? I have to say, hand on heart, that it cannot be done in this legislation. Deputy Shortall said if it is not possible, then...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)

Alex White: ...being addressed in section 9 as a risk at all. That is a fundamental issue to which people have not faced up. Given that we accept that death through suicide constitutes a risk, I do not understand why people can feel there is a rationale for having a different view of that risk from the view they hold of the other risk, which is to allow these circumstances to pertain in our law. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Card Eligibility (1 May 2013)

Alex White: ...various options, and we had to examine the options, we found every one of them difficult. Does the Deputy believe there is any adverse change or cut with which anybody on this side of the House feels comfortable? The answer is "No". We want to maintain as best we can the integrity of the system we have and the maximum amount of resource we have available to it to ensure that those...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Alex White: ...Section 5 is very rigorous. The Irish Medicines Board is required to apply considerable tests. I know we are not discussing section 5 but so many references are being made to this issue that I feel it necessary to make it absolutely clear to the committee that this is not some kind of charter for cheap drugs. We are imposing a rigorous requirement on the Irish Medicines Board only to...