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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Methinks the Senator protests too much.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us not enter into the realm of-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a good mind to say that I accept the Order of Business and to sit down-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: -----but I want to make a few things quite clear. Irrespective of one's views on PwC, it has been asked to do a piece of work on which it will report back to Government, and the Senator might be cynical, throw her eyes to Heaven and do all that; that is fine. The comments by some people inside and outside this House lend themselves to scaremongering and hysteria. We had that in the House...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a fact. The Senator is a public representative and, to be fair to him, he is a man of integrity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: He knows quite well-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Judicial review, yes. That is what I meant to say. Senator Wilson knows quite well that the court is the only place one can go.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: I hear people speak about leaking of information. The Joint Committee on Health, the Committee of Public Accounts, the finance committee today, the Dáil and this House have spent a countless number of hours discussing the national children's hospital. There has been no leaking or drip feeding of information.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Murnane O'Connor knows everything.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: She does not want to hear anything other than her own point of view, and that is fine. If I said black, she would say white. That is fine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators can accuse me of all things again if they want to.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand that. To be fair to the Cathaoirleach and to all of us in this House, we are rightly disappointed and find the overrun unacceptable but when I hear members of the Opposition talking about prudence in financial management I have to cast my mind back to personnel, payroll and related systems, PPARS, the sale of Telecom, which delayed the broadband process, and the area of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's leader was in government.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: We had a 16% unemployment level. Nobody would give us money.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Five Senators raised today the issue of the nursing dispute. I will make the same point I made last week and the whole time. All of us value, respect and admire the work being done in our hospitals and healthcare system by our nurses. Not one person I know of wants to see any person, be it a nurse, teacher, porter or bus driver, on strike. Today there is a pathway to reopen the talks...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: One cannot have a free-for-all. That might be the model Sinn Féin might like to have and subscribe to but one cannot have a free-for-all. There is one public sector pay deal. There is a knock-on effect if it is breached for one union.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Correct. The Government, as the Taoiseach and Minister for Health have outlined, is open to meeting. I invite and encourage all concerned to sit around the table and engage. Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of JobPath. It is worth noting that there are 41,000 people employed full time and 5,000 part time. The level of complaint concerning JobPath is around 0.41%. If the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell raised the issue of housing. We had the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government in the House last week for a housing debate. He will be in today to conclude his remarks. My advice to the Senator on the point she raised on housing is to put a Commencement matter before the House. On the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, my information is that the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator gives me the details I will.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Gallagher raised the issue of CPR in secondary schools in Cavan and Monaghan. It is an important issue, which needs to be addressed urgently. We have seen defibrillators put in place in rural and urban settings. We need to set up a process whereby we can train more people, especially young people, in CPR. I commend all involved. Senator Warfield raised the issue in The Times,...