Results 6,441-6,460 of 24,326 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not hear what he said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I know that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Why did he not say it to me?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I asked why the Senator did not contact me.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Why did the Senator not contact me instead of grandstanding now?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 11 Members of the House for their contribution to the Order of Business. Both Senators Ardagh and Murnane O'Connor raised the issue of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan, a Government backed mortgage scheme for first-time buyers launched in February 2018 with a projected 1,000 loans during a three-year period. The scheme has exceeded expectation. Some 575 people have been helped...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I have no problem-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: If Senator Boyhan was discommoded, I apologise to him. I would never discommode Senator Boyhan or any other Member in any shape or form. Senator Boyhan knows that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator, or any other Member, is well able to pick up the telephone and call me, to type an email to me, or to text me. I am very available and I am very flexible when it comes to changing schedules. Members can testify to my ability to reach across the aisle. As the Senator knows quite well, the schedule is indicative and subject to change. Lest there be any confusion and lest people...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will repeat it again because I think it is important-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----to ensure that there will be no ambiguity, that people will not be upset or discommoded, and that people will not be crying or going to the media with reports of this, that or the other thing.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I have never spoken off the record to members of the media.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I assure the Senator that I-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I have never gone to members of the media to brief-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----them on any Bill or on the schedule of the Seanad. I assure the Senator of that fact quite sincerely on the floor of this House. I have never done that, nor will I do so.If Senator Boyhan reads the article that Senator McDowell-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: You should let me finish instead of interrupting me. I did not mention you.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: You are not chairing the House.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I have always done that. I wish other Members would do the same.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Let me say it again. I have never tried to divide the House. If Senator Boyhan was really discommoded, I sincerely apologise to him. I would not want to upset him in any way because I know how sensitive about issues he can be at times.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will never recoil-----