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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I know Senator Feeney is embarrassed.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to use his good offices and ask the Taoiseach to bring forward the budget, given that the four-year strategy is being published tomorrow. As Senators Fitzgerald and Coffey said, we should have the leaders of the two main Opposition parties in Dáil Éireann as parties to the memorandum of agreement. The people are tired and fed up and want change.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Change is coming.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: What about the rhetoric from Senator Ormonde's own side?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Senator Ormonde's own side?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the Government that is causing the mess.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: On what grounds? The Government has the country ruined.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government has the country ruined.

Seanad: Sexual Offences (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this important issue, namely, the consequences of a decision taken this week in the courts. I ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform make a statement on the plans of the Government to amend the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 in the light of the decision by a judge to direct a jury to return a not guilty verdict because the Act...

Seanad: Sexual Offences (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is vital that the Minister for Justice and Law Reform take steps to protect people with an intellectual disability. I hope he will introduce modern capacity legislation which, as Inclusion Ireland notes, concerns all decisions taken by people deemed not to have the capacity to make a decision. While I accept the Minister of State's point that this is a sensitive issue, we have a duty not...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Donohoe in asking the fundamental question of when the Government will tell the people the facts. Does the Leader agree it is wrong that it is the Governor of the Central Bank who is the one to admit to the people that the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission are coming in, not for a fireside chat but to direct operations regarding our economic sovereignty? That is the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The incompetence of the Fianna Fáil-led Government has got us where we are today. I would like to see the former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, and the Taoiseach come to this House to explain their stewardship of the economy. I will go a step further. Perhaps a tribunal should be set up, only it would cost too much-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: -----so that they would be held to account. These Deputies were in charge of the country. They have let their people down.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I will give the Leader the Second Stage speech he wants.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I have asked him four questions.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I have asked him four questions. Members of the House are embarrassed by the record of Fianna Fáil in Government and if I were them, I would be too.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I would be embarrassed too if I were them. The Leader is the very person-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I will conclude on this.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is the very person who for two years came in here-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking the question. I will conclude on this. The Leader is the very person who came in here every day for two years waving a book stating how good Fianna Fáil is. Does he now think Fianna Fáil is good?