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Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We have produced a set of policies to get people back to work. We will defend the interests of the weakest and most vulnerable in society. The Minister of State is wrong; we have always put the country first. That was seen with the banks, when Fine Gael put the country first. We did not play party politics with it. This is in contrast to the Government, which never listened and will not...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: How many do I have left?

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will give her three minutes. I will be nice to her.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will not do unto Caesar what others have done to Caesar.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The motion before us is commonsensical, simple and devoid of politics. It allows us to show a better, alternative method.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: This is worse.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Show us the economic manual for the last ten years.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Read the proposals.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Read them. Fianna Fáil members are living in a fantasy world.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Remember the June local elections results.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I expect interruptions.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: When one hears Senator Butler criticising others and throwing out remarks, one knows he is in trouble. He is defending the indefensible. Part of me admires his tenacity and fortitude. At least he is here. None of his colleagues is present. I am not a parent but I am a devoted godfather and an adoring uncle. Some of my colleagues on both sides of the House struggle to balance their...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am speaking about child benefit, which is the subject of this section.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Bertie Ahern and his Government could not wait to run out to Drumcondra to give money to people and say: "Look what I am giving you." The largesse of Fianna Fáil ended with a bang. It was all squandered. I will not go into the details. The Members on the Government side know what they did. Will the Minister tell the House who made the decision at Cabinet to single out the mother...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: No. I will refer to them briefly.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is good for the Chair to be impartial.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: No.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that Members on the Government side are upset about the budget. I do not blame them for that. I understand where they are coming from. The first e-mail was from someone who complained that everything for children, including their activities, is expensive. They pointed out that children do not stop growing overnight and assured me that they need all the money they can get to...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator checks the records, he will find that John Bruton actually increased child benefit. This Bill is a fundamental attack on children and women. When I was growing up, my mother would get the children's allowance and go into town on the first Tuesday of each month. She would pick up the money and spend it on something for us. That is what it was about. That is replicated...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Acting Chairman imposing a guillotine on the Bill?