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Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Members should have a debate on the number of agencies and quangos created by the Government, as well as on the number of political appointees. A real debate should be held in this regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should go out and talk to the ordinary people of Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is here too long. He is insulated from the truth.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: So do urban people.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: But they are not.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: You are the Minister.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Die for the parish.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus déanaim comhghairdeas leis. Like the Minister, I come from an urban area but I spent my summers in a farming community in the north Cork-Kerry border area. Listening to the Minister, however, I thought I was living in a parallel world. While I hope he continues his emphasis on the townland and rural Ireland, and I welcome the fact that, nine months later,...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Feeney.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Ní amadán é an Seanadóir. Tá sé an-ghlic ar fad.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator must not have been listening.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is about leadership.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: While it is tempting for people to vote against the Lisbon treaty to give the Government a well-deserved rap on the knuckles for its package of misinformation and broken promises, they should not do so. The Government has an obligation to look after the people of Ireland rather than misleading them. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates" television programme illustrated the Government's...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Leader throwing the boys in the chasm now?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Mullingar accord.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Deputy Mary O'Rourke?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They did not do it in the past ten years.

Seanad: Health Services (8 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Mary Hanafin, on her appointment as Minister for Social and Family Affairs. I wish her well in her tenure in office and hope she has a successful term there. I raise the issue of the incidence of asthma and the failure to develop a national asthma strategy. As the Minister will be aware, last Tuesday was World Asthma Day. Ireland has the fourth highest...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the new Government on its appointment, but I notice the truce is broken this morning with the decision of former Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to retire at the next general election. I wonder how long Senators Ciaran Cannon and Dan Boyle will stay in their positions on the Government side of the House, because we need an urgent debate on the role of Government. We have...