Results 20,281-20,300 of 24,350 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: People are afraid to turn on the heat because they do not know what to do given the money that has been cut by the Government. I have received texts and e-mails and have met people in this regard. I am not talking about a mass e-mail campaign but about genuine ordinary citizens who are struggling. The Government is putting people under pressure, causing stress and upsetting the lives of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not talking to Senator Brady, but he is doing so.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: The architects of our downfall are walking around town scot free. The Minister and the banks would again have been in a cosy cartel in regard to the â¬40 million in bonuses only for the fact that ordinary people and the Opposition took up the issue. The Minister could not do anything last week but all of sudden yesterday he found a loophole to ignore the court order. What do the Minister,...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take a point of order from the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Whether we like it, there is a new Ireland. The Government should talk and listen to the people. It has created a new tier of poverty in middle Ireland. I know the Minister of State and Senator Brady are embarrassed by, and ashamed of, the Government and I do not blame them.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us look at the facts. Male unemployment is up 16.7%.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: One in three of those under 25 is unemployed. Half the unemployed - 6.5% - are long-term unemployed. That is five times more than in 2007. Some 88% of job losses have been among those under 35. Some 55% have been among those under 25. That is the Government's record and we do have the emigration figures yet. That is the Government's legacy and yet it asks the people to take unfair cuts...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Finance to the House and to agree with me in respect of what I have to say. The reality is that the Minister was dragged in, kicking and screaming, to prevent the payment of the bonuses yesterday. It is extraordinary that it took the Minister for Finance five days to agree with everyone in this House that the bonuses should not have been paid. It...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I am.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I am calling on the Government to get out and the people to get rid of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: When will the Government learn? When will it value people who matter in this society? The Government does not get it. As we learned last night, it does not value the elderly. Senator Callely was in government and a Minister of State with responsibility for older people when this was happening. The Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: -----is in government now when social welfare payments are being cut.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: When will the Government leave the people alone? When will it show respect for them? I hope the Leader will respond.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Government show the people respect?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to request the Minister for Finance to come to this House to tell Members who demanded that the minimum wage be cut and explain why it was cut. Minimum wage recipients, those who need money most, will lose approximately â¬46 per month, almost â¬1,000 per annum, as a result of this reduction. Why was the minimum wage reduced? Perhaps the Members opposite can explain that....
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the Leader get it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure he does. That is the problem. He does not understand at all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Callely has some neck to lecture me about morality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Callely is part of a Government which has nearly raped the people.