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- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister of State is doing well.
- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Recommendations Nos. 1 and 2 in the name of Senator Paul Gavan have been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Recommendation No. 4 in the name of Senator Alice-Mary Higgins has been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (30 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for interrupting Senator Gavan. In accordance with the order of the House today, the sitting must be suspended at this time. The debate on the Bill will resume at 5.15 p.m.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Dooley in seeking a debate on the aviation sector. We have all received emails from Aer Lingus pilots. The airline is in a precarious position and this must be addressed by us, as Members of the Upper House, and by the Government. Yesterday, Mr. Ray Gray, the chief financial officer of the Dublin Airport Authority, was before the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. He...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator cannot be in Government and Opposition at the same time.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister and congratulate her. I thank the former Minister, Senator Doherty, and welcome the extension of the pandemic unemployment payment to April. It is a matter of social solidarity. The employment wage subsidy scheme allows for businesses to open or to remain open, but it is also about keeping jobs through the winter. Everything we do should be to protect people and to...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: His political party hawked itself around the country recruiting members rather than showing social solidarity with the people.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: It is important that we work together collaboratively. Your party took a very Punch and Judy approach to going into government. The truth is that you really do not want to be in government at all because you cannot make decisions.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: I understand that.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Sure.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us get real in here. The Sinn Féin Party-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: -----speaks in here but does not want to be in government. It prefers to give out on social media and throughout the country. That is its modus operandi. This Government is working to protect people in social solidarity with employers and employees. That is what this Bill is about. I welcome the measure regarding the cycle to work scheme. We in Government must reimagine how people travel...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Is section 8 agreed to?
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendment No. 4 in the name of Senator Higgins is deemed out of order as to its relevance to the subject matter of the Bill.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes, we can.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)
Jerry Buttimer: I concur in respect of community employment schemes, which are an important element.