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Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's own newspaper is doing it. His own newspaper is good at doing that — chasing circulation. Is the Senator going to attack it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That is preposterous. The Senator should withdraw that remark now. That remark is unbecoming of him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That remark is unfair. I ask the Senator to withdraw it. He is casting an aspersion on members of my party at local level and should withdraw that remark.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The remark is unfair and untrue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is an untrue remark and it should be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Harris in congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his impartiality in the Chair. I welcome and note the metanoia of the director general of RTE, Cathal Goan, and Mr. Mulholland yesterday on their conversion to the need for impartiality, independence and balance. The article in this morning's edition of The Irish Times gives Senator Harris his answer. A serious debate on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister with responsibility for community affairs has not been invited to the House since we resumed this session. This morning we have read and heard in this Chamber of the breakdown of Irish society. Those of us involved in community life, schools and sport know there is a need for a debate on the pressures exerted on young families forced to spend an inordinate amount of time stuck...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is coming from next to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Cathaoirleach certainly would know.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a relationship?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: All is fair in love and war.

Seanad: Respite Care (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome an tAire Stáit and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise on the Adjournment the issue of respite care beds in St. Laurence Cheshire Home in Cork. There is an ongoing difficulty between the HSE and St. Laurence Cheshire Home, where there has been a reduction from three to one in the number of respite care beds. This has serious implications for 28 individuals — the...

Seanad: Respite Care (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Will he get a guarantee from the HSE that we will have the same level of entitlement to respite care and the same access as last year?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Spoken like a true republican.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The clock is ticking.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Those opposite are all working on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is baffling that day after day, morning after morning, the Members opposite come in here and call for a debate on the future of Irish pharmacy. I respect Senator de Búrca and I understand her position but she is a member of a Government party. What is she and her colleagues on the benches opposite doing about the future of Irish pharmacy, especially in view of the impending date of 1 March?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We raised yesterday and repeatedly——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators cannot have it both ways. They cannot come in here and say one thing and go outside and say another.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators are either in a Government party or they are not.