# alex-white - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
# Seanad Recall
# Seanad Recall
The recall to debate transplant legislation shows the role that a reformed Seanad could have says a Fianna Fáil senator.
# Seanad Recall
# Seanad Recall
The Seanad is debating an emergency motion to annul legislation on organ transplantation.
# Organ Transplant
# Organ Transplant
The State’s first organ transplant legislation was signed into law a year ago but a Fianna Fáíl senator says it is flawed and “people will die” because the proper systems are not in place.
# alex-white - Thursday 15 August, 2013
# Organ Transplants
# Organ Transplants
Minister of State Alex White has hit back at calls for the organ transplant legislation to be annulled ahead of a Seanad debate on the matter next week.
# alex-white - Tuesday 6 August, 2013
# Health
# Health
Both Ministers for Health are working on plans to bring free GP care to Ireland, but have not decided on an age-range.
# alex-white - Wednesday 3 July, 2013
# New Findings
# New Findings
And women are twice as likely as men to order it over the phone.
# alex-white - Monday 1 July, 2013
# Medicines
# Medicines
Last year, there were 273 seizures of Yasmin and similar contraceptive pills in Ireland.
# alex-white - Monday 22 April, 2013
# Screening Programme
# Screening Programme
MedLab Pathology, based in Sandyford, has been awarded 50 per cent of the contract for the CervicalCheck programme and will also work with the State’s BowelScreen programme.
# alex-white - Thursday 21 March, 2013
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
However Minister of State Alex White said that medical card coverage of the over 70s population stands at 97 per cent.
# alex-white - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
# Leinster House
# Leinster House
It’s a light day in the Oireachtas today, with only two committee meetings being held.
# alex-white - Monday 4 March, 2013
# Pharmaceuticals
# Pharmaceuticals
Michael Barry of the National Medicines Management Programme says draft laws will make generic drugs cheaper.
# alex-white - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
# Alcohol
# Alcohol
The Alcohol Forum said there is evidence that communities have a major role to play in starting a process of mindset and culture change.
# alex-white - Saturday 9 February, 2013
# Lifesavers
# Lifesavers
An enquiry by MEP Liam Aylward confirms that Government is forbidden under EU law to lift VAT rate on defibrillators – but that the EC says all states could give financial support to offset cost.
# alex-white - Saturday 26 January, 2013
# Lifesaving
# Lifesaving
“Taxing defibrillators is like putting a tax on saving lives”: the 23 per cent VAT rate which Government says can’t be lifted because of an EU directive.
# alex-white - Sunday 13 January, 2013
# Enda Kenny
# Enda Kenny
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny also said that government would not allow for abortion on demand in Ireland.
# alex-white - Saturday 22 December, 2012
# Expenses
# Expenses
€16,079 worth of expenses were deemed to be ‘ineligible’.
# alex-white - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
# Drugs
# Drugs
More than €28 million will be made available to the task forces next year to support community based initiatives.
# alex-white - Saturday 1 December, 2012
# Severance
# Severance
The former junior minister says she had instructed officials not to pay her any severance she may be entitled to.
# alex-white - Monday 19 November, 2012
# Drugs
# Drugs
Deputy Roisín Shorthall had approved the move to amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations earlier this year. It has been confirmed that it will be 2013 before it is introduced.
# alex-white - Friday 16 November, 2012
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
James Reilly unveils a programme of ambitious reform in the health sector – saying he’ll need two terms to totally finish it up.
# alex-white - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
The decision was made at a Cabinet meeting earlier today and has been announced by the government this afternoon.
# alex-white - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
# Drugs
# Drugs
Women and older adults are more likely to use these substances, the latest National Drug Prevalence Survey revealed.
# alex-white - Saturday 20 October, 2012
# Sponsorship
# Sponsorship
The cabinet minister responsible for sport says sponsorship – through whatever means – is vital for grassroots sport.
# alex-white - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
# Ciarán Lynch
# Ciarán Lynch
The position had been held by Alex White TD, who has taken up the junior ministerial position vacated by Róisín Shortall.
# alex-white - Saturday 29 September, 2012
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Exactly HOW many people would be better off on the Dole? And just how many people emigrate from Ireland every day?
# Severance
# Severance
Ministers aren’t allowed to receive both – but Róisín Shortall isn’t entitled to one, so she is entitled to the other.
# alex-white - Friday 28 September, 2012
# Primary Care
# Primary Care
The Minister for Health seeks to turn the tables – suggesting Róisín Shortall had used strange criteria to rank potential venues.
# alex-white - Thursday 27 September, 2012
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
# Changes
# Changes
The Health Minister has commented on the news that Alex White will replace the departed Róisín Shortall who Reilly thanked for her ‘hard work’.
# Appointments
# Appointments
The Dublin South TD will be nominated to fill the vacant junior ministerial position at the Department of Health next week.
# alex-white - Monday 16 July, 2012
# Inquiry
# Inquiry
Legislation is a bigger question than whether the Public Accounts Committee or Finance Committee will hold the inquiry, said Deputy Alex White .
# alex-white - Sunday 8 July, 2012
# Banking Inquiry
# Banking Inquiry
Is there a turf war between the Public Accounts Committee and the Finance Committee on who’s going to do the digging? And what about revisiting the Oireachtas inquiries referendum?
# alex-white - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
# Ulster Bank
# Ulster Bank
The delay to payments enters its third week today, as the bank insisted no customer data had been lost.
# alex-white - Sunday 13 May, 2012
# Said And Done
# Said And Done
“It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
# alex-white - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
# Posters
# Posters
Alex White said he wasn’t against the posters themselves, but asked why they needed to be ‘festooned’ on every lamppost.
# alex-white - Friday 27 April, 2012
# Legal Eagles
# Legal Eagles
The barristers carried out work for the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, who represents the State in various courts.
# alex-white - Saturday 7 April, 2012
# In The Know
# In The Know
The new registers of members’ interests have been published. Here’s some random things we learned from reading them.
# alex-white - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
# Donations
# Donations
TDs, Senators and MEPs who served in roles in 2011 are required to disclose donations above €634.87 from one person.
# alex-white - Wednesday 8 February, 2012
# Personal Debt
# Personal Debt
Statistician Joe McNeill is due to give the Committee on Finance an overview of non-mortgage personal debt in Ireland later today.
# alex-white - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
# Unsere Freunde
# Unsere Freunde
The Oireachtas Finance committee is heading to meet its German counterpart – the one that got our Budget in November.
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