In today's Irish Times ...

A review of my book by Deaglan de Breadun in today's Irish Times: see http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1224/1229728523315.html

Also my book was welcomed in the Seanad by Senator Mark Daly:see his comments at http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=SEN20081119.XML&Dail=30&Ex=All&Page=2

A happy Christmas and successful new year to all my constituents and blog readers!

Legislative Business

The second-last week of the Dail and Seanad Session (that's the week just finished) is always the busiest as a lot of Bills are going through in great haste - the final week is not so bad as it is generally too late for major amendments at the last minute. As the Parliamentary Labour Party's legal adviser, one of the Bills that I drafted amendments for was the Housing Bill, as Senator Dominic Hannigan kindly mentions here . This is an important Bill for local government and one of a number that are going through at present that Labour is examining closely on behalf of the public.

More on the Party Conference

Videos of contributions by Senator Alex White are available here

Edit: December 8th

I'm just getting around to posting some photographs from conference, you can see more on the Labour Flickr photostream.

Labour Party Conference

To Kilkenny last weekend for the very successful Labour Party conference. Party Leader Eamon Gilmore TD gave an excellent speech emphasising the Party's decision not to align itself with either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael but to pursue our own approach of leadership and listening to people and offering practical solutions.

Senator Alex White, also made an excellent speech introducing the Party leader on Saturday night. Cllr Aidan Culhane spoke on Saturday on a motion on housing introduced by the Dublin South Labour Party Constituency Council.

I addressed the conference to second a motion on criminal justice (you can watch it on Ustream here) which was proposed by Pat Rabbitte TD, Party Spokesperson on Justice. I hope to post some pictures from the event here in the coming days.