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- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should live in the real world.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: How many were on trolleys there last week?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: It is time the Leader went back to the Dáil where he had some influence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Daly is in trouble now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I agree with Senator McFadden on the decision made by the HSE yesterday. I ask the Leader to explain how the Minister for Health and Children can abdicate responsibility for matters relating to the HSE, while sanctioning the provision of a new hospital in Kenmare. I salute the efforts of Councillor Patrick O'Connor-Scarteen who worked very hard to secure the hospital in question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: How was it possible for the new hospital to be announced by Deputy Healy-Rae yesterday? The Government is either responsible for the HSE and the cuts in the allocation and configuration of services, or it is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I would also like a debate on the issue of alcohol. As somebody who takes a pint, I am genuinely concerned about and outraged by the possibility that the Minister for Finance will propose a reduction in the level of tax charged on alcohol products in the Budget Statement later today. The level of consumption of alcohol in Ireland is one of the highest in the world. As a nation, we have a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Not for long.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Neither does the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: They take more than that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a No. 1 for Senator Daly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Leader aware that people are under severe emotional and financial pressure as a consequence of the mismanagement of the economy by the Government to which his party belongs?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The budget tomorrow is about the protection of the people and the creation of jobs. It is a disgrace that we will not have an opportunity to discuss it tomorrow evening. I appeal to the Leader to amend the Order of Business tomorrow morning to allow time for a debate on the budget. I echo the call made by Senator McFadden that the Leader invite the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to...
- Seanad: Interim Report on Flooding on River Shannon, November 2000: Statements (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I pay tribute to him and the Department for the work they have been doing in recent weeks to assist victims of the flooding. Like Senator Boyle, I am happy that the civic emergency in Cork is over. As I have done on many occasions in the House, I again pay tribute to Civil Defence, the Army, the Garda, the fire service, the staff of city...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: No, they are not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The Irish Press.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: That is what they are doing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The job of the Opposition is to hold the Government to account.