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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, it is a pre-budget debate in the other House. The Senator is misleading the House, as the Cathaoirleach knows.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is Fianna Fáil in government?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government parties cannot govern.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government parties have no policies and want us to give them some.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What will the Government parties do? Will they ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I begin by replying, through the Chair, to Senator Ellis. In Cork last weekend, I found that students are waiting for grants to be paid, living in very poor conditions and frustrated by the lack of leadership from the Department of Education and Science. I support Senator Healy Eames in asking the Leader when the Student Support Bill will come to the House. Senator Healy Eames is correct...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That is correct. I call on the Minister for Finance to bring in the banks and tell them who is in charge. I heard Senator Boyle on Newstalk at lunchtime. We can have all the pious words and great rhetoric but it is time for the Minister for Finance to act on behalf of the people. We have bailed out the banks but the banks, in particular AIB this morning, showed they do not care about...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Touché.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Senator tuck him in tomorrow morning?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the Senator's phone.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We must be fair to the sound technician. The Senator has it right beside his microphone.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: If it is on silent mode, it still comes on.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will Senator Ellis come with me to Cork?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That was not socialism.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I asked about the Seanad by-elections.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Mary O'Rourke is very happy with Senator Cassidy.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join with Senator O'Toole and Senator Boyle in asking the Leader for a debate on lobbying. If we have learned anything it is that the golden circle that pertained in Irish society can no longer rule and can no longer have access to power. The lobbying that went on in the Galway tent must be a practice from a bygone era that can never be allowed to happen here again. I call on the Leader,...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In the interests of the body politic I ask the Leader to revisit the question of the Seanad by-elections. I ask him, in an ecumenical gesture, to offer one of the places to a non-party candidate or to a member from the North and let this House be what it is, namely, a House representative of a wider section of Irish society.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking the Leader, who professes to have the ear of the Taoiseach, to go to the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who proposes to be in favour of Seanad reform and have a different style of politics-----