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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: -----in their talks today but also in the ongoing negotiations.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate where the Senator is coming from and I know where he has come from when he says that. I know that his involvement in Europe has granted him the experience to come in here and make such a comment. I do not dismiss his comments at all, in case he thinks that I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish the Senator well with his impending report on a seamless border.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If my party is invited my colleagues and I will give it consideration.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: We will attend, if we can.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I join with Senator Leyden in congratulating and thanking the executive of the National Ploughing Championships for cancelling the second day of the event.It was done in the interests of public health and safety. I know that there were many disappointed people who had travelled and who were in Screggan but the event was cancelled in the interests of health and safety. I wish all...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I will now happily conclude my reply to today's Order of Business. I wish the Cathaoirleach well as he navigates us safely through a very interesting and hopefully peaceful time in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Curaim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. It is always dangerous when one comes in at the end of the debate, especially when one follows in the footsteps of Senator O'Reilly, who is very eloquent. The debate so far has been particularly insightful. I welcome this debate on the future of our post office network. What we should be talking about is the future of that network as our world...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Some post offices are not viable and could never be kept open but hopefully some will be kept open following the appeals process. As Senator O'Reilly said, that process should be open and transparent. Senator Mac Lochlainn was also right about the gargantuan hypocrisy of the people on the benches opposite. I know that some of us swear by Kickham's maxim about having pride in the local...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Under its watch, there were 700 post offices closed - dúnta, locked up, the keys thrown away. Sometimes one does not like to hear the truth.

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I certainly hope to join the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in the Dáil to form part of the next Fine Gael-led Government.

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: He is doing an excellent job as Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. The debate tonight is about our post office network. The Minister has engaged and reached out. With the Kerr report and the various reforms introduced by Mr. McRedmond, An Post is in a better place today in terms of staff, mail centres, volume of business and profit. It is not all about profit and it...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Repeat the last paragraph.

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: What did Senator Leyden do?

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden said it with sincerity. It was 193 in one year.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the arrangements for the sitting of the House on Tuesday, 17 July, 2018, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, motion regarding teacher training places, back from committee, be taken without debate on the conclusion of No. 1; No. 3, Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 - Order for...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: We never leave the home, we all stay at home.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I wonder who wrote the Constitution.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a great one for bombardment himself, and it is no harm for the Senator to be checked in the House, for once.