Results 4,941-4,960 of 24,398 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Appointment to Policing Authority: Motion (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I move: That Seanad Éireann recommends, pursuant to section 62C(7) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that Dr. Deborah Donnelly be appointed by the Government to be a member of the Policing Authority.
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I want to make a number of points.
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I love the revisionism that applies to the Progressive Democrats era. It is great. We should bring back former Deputies Mary Harney, Desmond O'Malley-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----Michael McDowell and Tom Parlon. We should bring back the low tax and the light-touch regulation. I am fond of Senator McDowell but when Irish history is written the role of the Progressive Democrats and Fianna Fáil will be-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind my learned colleague and friend that in every one of their budgets, this Government and the previous Government reduced the universal social charge. I remind the Senator to look to the corner of the House to the Fianna Fáil benches.
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Bill is couched and framed in the Brexit timetable. When the budget was passed and the finance Bill was being drafted, there was a great deal of uncertainty. I remind Senator McDowell that the reason so many people are still paying the universal social charge is the legacy of the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government that bankrupted our country and robbed a generation of a future...
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will come to that. Let me add to that, the policies of the Progressive Democrats, individualisation-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I want to make the point that-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The important point I want to make, and as I keep saying to people, and I remind Members and those watching and listening to the debate, is that if people buy a car or television, they do not return to the salesperson who sold them a ramshackle, banjaxed vehicle or product in the first place. Rather, they stay with the people who brought our country back to full employment-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I am about to make the point, if the Acting Chairmen would let me, that-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The point I want to make on the Finance Bill is that developing and maintaining a skilled technological workforce is a major priority for Ireland. Last Friday, I happened to be at an event and was fortunate to be able to substitute for the Tánaiste-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: It was in Cork North-Central. My point is about research and development. It is through connectivity between business and foreign direct investment, FDI, that we can have innovative solutions to the challenges we face, for example, in food issues, which we found with NutRI last Friday in Cork Institute of Technology. It is important in the context of this Finance Bill, given that we have...
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will conclude on this, because it is an important point that will affect every citizen. The chief executive-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----or rather the director general of RTÉ made a good point today in terms of the cost of RTÉ being 44 cent per day compared with what we are getting from services like Netflix, Sky or whatever. In the context of the point Senator McDowell made, I made the point in the House last Thursday, and I ask to be let make this point without interruption, because it is an important one,...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: No, it will not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Maidin amárach ar 10.30.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re the arrangements for the sitting of the House on Tuesday, 10 December 2019, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, statements on local government funding, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn at 2.30 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the contributions of all Senators not to exceed eight minutes; and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Was he not there?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I have heard the Senator and her speech is finished.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Is this a Second Stage speech?