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Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Mary White has one minute left.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: On the Appropriation Bill please.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Bradford without interruption.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He is Hogan's sidekick.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to contribute to this very important Adjournment debate. I am conscious of the nature of the Minister of State's departmental responsibility. It is important that the construction of a new primary school in Ballygarvan be expedited. The area has been waiting for a new school since the late 1990s. There are many...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister for this reply. I welcome the fact that we will see a new school next year. I hope there will be no further roadblocks.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Donohoe spoke about collateral damage and in reply the Minister spoke about legal advice received. The gnáth duine, the ordinary person, does not trust the Minister's legal advice, primarily because he has been wrong at every hand's turn, despite his earlier protestations and those of the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh. If the Minister wants to be fair about this, we have got...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister has. If he forgets his commentators and advisers and speaks to ordinary people in Dublin West or Cork South Central, he will learn they have no confidence in the Department of Finance, the Government or the banks and bankers. They are absolutely petrified. I am not a rocket scientist, but I understand the Minister's initial comment, way back when all of this began, was that it...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister can and I will come back to it again. Who is now dictating to us? Is it the European Union, the IMF, the European Central Bank, Mr. Elderfield, the Attorney General or the mandarins in the Department? Looking at the rest of the section, we have not protected the interests of the ordinary person. We can have a debate about bondholders and other sectors, but we all accept that...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We supported the Government on the first night.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us be fair, we supported the guarantee.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Fitzgerald in asking for a debate in which the Taoiseach would explain why, in the dying days of this Government, 300 people, mainly friends of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, are to be appointed to boards. The old-pals act continues.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for the Taoiseach to come to the House to explain why the Fianna Fáil-led Government, in its dying days, is going to fill 300 vacancies with its pals. Has the Government not learned anything from the mistakes in the banking sector and from the way the economy has plummeted through the lack of regulation and the cosy cartels involving members in the Government benches? That is...

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator cannot do so as we are on the Adjournment.

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We cannot move the suspension because the House is adjourned.

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Can my matter be taken tomorrow?

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The House is adjourned.

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is bad practice that the Minister of State has to go.

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the fault of the Government Whip. May I ask that my Adjournment matter be taken tomorrow night?

Seanad: Health Centres (15 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, I am here and ready and willing to participate.