Results 24,101-24,120 of 24,376 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: He is very consensus-orientated.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: We are the consensus party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: When the Government is in trouble, it will call us up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government will call us up.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: We are being zapped. The Senator is being beeped.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that an open invitation?
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: They do not do so.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share my time with Senator McFadden, by agreement. I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for her comprehensive reply. I do not want this debate to degenerate into politics.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: As a teacher, however, I have to say that there is a great deal of frustration and angst among teachers about integration which requires urgent attention. I take the Minister's point about this but the policy does not work. I was in a classroom last year with 15 students, ten Irish and five from elsewhere and it was completely frustrating.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: It was a bottom stream class. I was lucky.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Colleagues of mine teach examination subjects to classes of 35 and 33. They are in a much worse situation. I wish to push on, however, and make a few points.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us see some action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I concur with Senator Quinn as Senator Harris and I raised the issue of civility in recent weeks and I think a debate on active citizenship would be appropriate. A couple of weeks ago Senator Kelly and I, along with other Senators, raised the issue of the impending crisis facing the Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA, and the Gaelic Players' Association, GPA. In light of this morning's...
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: There was a debate on the National Educational Psychological Service in the other House yesterday. Mental health is a subject close to my heart because I am involved with COPE foundation in Cork. There has been a significant increase in the number of children identified with autism, Asperger's syndrome and other pervasive developmental disorders. We need to consider this issue here....
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The independent republic.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Mind the cod.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator O'Sullivan has done well.
- Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The motion set out by my party highlights the importance of the postal system to our nation and, lest there be any misconception, this side of the House supports and endorses the work done by employees of An Post in the distribution of mail and all of that company's ancillary activities. As Senator Hannigan said, post offices are closing at the rate of...