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

Jerry Buttimer: Well spoken.

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

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister referred to the enhancement of budgets and so on. I will outline a simple scenario created by her Department and the Department of Health and Children. Public servants will have their pay cut in addition to being subject to a recruitment freeze, which will have a knock on effect on the provision of services by these Departments. A carer, a person with a disability or someone...

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

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister stated the half rate allowance had not been touched.

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

Jerry Buttimer: She cannot have it both ways.

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

Jerry Buttimer: They are not happy with the cut in the carer's allowance.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Last week in the other House Deputy Róisín Shortall raised the matter of assessment by the social inclusion unit of the Department regarding the poverty-proofing of the budget. The Minister indicated that it would be published in a couple of days. Has this been done? If not, when will it be done and will it be made available to us during the course of this debate? These cuts will have...

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

Jerry Buttimer: No, we did not.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Here are the Fine Gael proposals. Show it to me.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Carers, the disabled and the blind.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I will read it to the House.

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

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister is spinning to deflect from herself. She is misleading the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In endorsing the comments of previous speakers on the need for an independent inquiry into banking and the issues that brought us into the economic abyss, it is important that the Leader puts on the record the Government's intention with regard to the proposal by Professor Honohan yesterday. Unlike other jurisdictions, no one has been held accountable in this country except the ordinary...

Seanad: Flood Relief (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this matter and cuirim fáilte roimh an tAire Stáit.

Seanad: Flood Relief (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The events of 19 November will not be forgotten in the city of Cork, in particular in the Middle Parish which was submerged in water. The difficulty lies in the fact that there are no answers to why it was submerged, why the area flooded and why the quay walls at Grenville Place collapsed. I raised the matter of the quay walls with the Minister of State, Deputy Martin Mansergh, earlier this...

Seanad: Flood Relief (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The reply is, to say the least, very disappointing. It is a clear abdication of responsibility by the Minister, Deputy Gormley. Why has he not outlined his willingness to embark upon and embrace an independent investigation? No reference was made by the Minister of State to whether money would be allocated to undertake a risk assessment of the key infrastructures in the flood plain and...

Seanad: Flood Relief (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That was promised in 2006.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: They have been cut.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Do not worry, a Chathaoirligh. I will give it to him when I get an opportunity.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister hit the public sector twice in a row.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In the pantheon of Governments this one will go down in history and the Green Party and Fianna Fáil with it, for having taxed people, taken money off the poor, the blind, the disabled and those in most need. The Minister and Senators opposite should look into their hearts and ask themselves whether they really want to penalise people who need help most. If that is the case, then they have...