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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He has a very good past record.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Alex White in calling for a debate on the role of Government. The mid-term elections in America indicated a very clear feeling among people, which I believe would be replicated here, that they want a debate on what it wants Government to do and on its role. Cutting expenditure must not be the sole job of Government. We must have a debate on what Government should do, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: And the girls.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is all a mirage.

Seanad: Irish Language: Motion (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus gabhaim comhghairdeas leis an Seanadóir Ó Murchú as ucht an obair a dhein sé mar chathaoirleach ar an bhfo-choiste. Chuala mé a bhí le rá ag an Aire agus oráid an-maith a bhí innti. Tá muintir na Gaeltachta faoi bhrú agus tá ár dteanga faoi bhrú. Ag an am gcéanna, má tá na fadhbanna ag méadú tá suim an-mhór i gcúrsaí Gaeilge agus i...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Reeling in the years.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He should also respect the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator O'Toole in welcoming the decision of the Government to introduce a voluntary redundancy scheme in the HSE. I remind Senator O'Malley that the Government is making it up as it goes along. The Government has been in place for 13 years and has shrunk from and funked every opportunity to have real reform of the public service. I ask the Deputy Leader to send a message today to...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There is the reverse as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: What has the Deputy Leader's party done during the past four years when it has been in government?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy Leader for allowing time today for a debate on the Roscommon report. The fundamental question that has not been addressed is when we can expect people to be held to account and to accept responsibility. A lack of accountability and acceptance of responsibility have been at the core of Fianna Fáil in Government for the past 13 years. It has been a failure. Senator Harris...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I accept that had this been done, it would not have stopped what happened in this instance. Let us do it, none the less, and let us forget adversarial partisan politics. I am not a lawyer and do not have a legal mind but we could, with political will, obtain the consensus needed to ensure the children's rights referendum is passed in the morning. That takes moral courage, not people going...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us have a debate on that. Does the Deputy Leader agree with the remarks made in Poland by former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, about his handling of the economy and his intention to run for the presidency?

Seanad: Diabetes Treatment and Management: Motion. (27 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, Deputy Brady. The motion, to say the least, is weak. It encourages rather than mandates the Health Service Executive and endorses, recognises and acknowledges the efforts being made in regard to public health concerns surrounding diabetes and its increasing prevalence. Senator McFadden was correct when she said in her fine address that this disease is...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I dtús báire, cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Ciarán Cuffe. I welcome the publication of the report. The map on the newspaper I am displaying is the legacy of the failure of the Fianna Fáil-led Government and of successive Fianna Fáil Governments to plan properly for this country. The Minister of State, Deputy Cuffe, is a Minister in the Government. I appreciate he...