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Seanad: Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2009: Second Stage. (28 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: If we are honest with one another, that is what we must do. The Bill is important because it seeks to provide accountability and transparency. If we take Senator Ormonde's point about qualifications, that will happen. I do not agree that someone should be debarred from appointment to a State board because he or she is a political appointee or a member of a political party. I never said...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Senator de Búrca's and Senator White's defence of Deputy Enda Kenny this morning. It is welcome that there is broad cross-party support for what he suggested. Senator Fitzgerald raised a legitimate issue this morning on which I ask the Leader to arrange a debate. A prisoner in one of this country's prisons was in possession of 73 bags or deals of heroin. What does that tell us?...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are unemployed, queueing in social welfare offices and waiting for six to eight weeks to get social welfare payments. That is what we should be about, not who shouts across the Chamber. I will defend this Chamber everywhere but we need these urgent debates.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator deserves it the most.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: This is a Second Stage speech.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: As we speak people are dying as a result of drug overdoses and suicide, businesses are laying off employees and banks are refusing credit yet the majority of people here are being self-serving in looking after their own preservation. That is indicative of the way the political system is broken and in need of radical reform. People see us as elitist, out of touch with reality and aloof and...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: My record of attendance and voting record-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: -----are better than those of anyone else in the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have debated matters in the House and will not take a lecture from Senator Boyle.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am here to work on behalf of the people, from whom Senator Boyle will soon receive his answer.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I could walk away from politics in the morning but I will not abandon the men and women of Ireland who are losing their jobs and whose homes are being repossessed. Senator Boyle will not lecture me.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I listen to the people but Senator Boyle does not do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I listen to the people. Senator Boyle is above them.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking the Leader-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am not upset at all. I am fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I want to finish my sentence. I will conclude on this point.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In the past three weeks I have asked the Leader to make time available for three debates. The Cathaoirleach can check the record in that regard.