Results 23,261-23,280 of 24,376 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator might be decentralised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should play ball. Joe Duffy is fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Leader facilitate a debate next week on employment and the employment strategies the Government may have? Last night the Minister for Finance said that the banks of this country were orphans that had nowhere to go but to the State. It is time that the Government began to mother its people. The Irish need to be mothered now and they need a Government to show leadership. It is back...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: However, he has a vote for the Presidency.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What happened to 10 p.m.?
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Do we have to take it tonight?
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Do we have to take it tonight?
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator MacSharry should not lecture us.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is no bother. We are going nowhere.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: A good job was done last Tuesday.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the taxpayer?
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He claims he did not.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister said Fine Gael did not want the support of developers, builders and bank staff. We have their support. One of our core values is the reward of enterprise. There is merit in the amendment. I support the notion that a job should be done well and I am sickened by the attitude that it does not matter. I have received ten telephone calls today from people concerned about others...
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Under section 2(2), does the Minister intend to report to the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service or set up a separate banking sub-committee? This Bill gives the Minister major powers so there needs to be ministerial accountability.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We do not know that.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I deliberately avoided getting involved in this debate but Senator Walsh's contribution and the Leader's proposal are fast eroding the consensus on this side of the House which has behaved impeccably over the past 48 hours. It is time we received leadership on this issue from the Government side of the House because the problem is very simple. No information has been forthcoming and no...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not the point.