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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Dr. Google is not always right.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: President Higgins would do it for the Senator.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear,hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: See where you went to.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: On a point of clarification, Deputy Ross is not the Minister with responsibility for insurance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: They are showing their true colours.
- Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (5 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders relative to Public Business: (1)The Seanad shall meet at 2 p.m. on Monday, 9th July, 2018, and shall adjourn no later than 10 p.m., and the following arrangements shall apply: (a)Standing Orders 29 and 30 shall stand suspended; (b)there shall be no Order of Business; (c)the sitting shall be suspended from 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.;...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding special committee on climate action, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion regarding the proposal to re-establish the Seanad Special Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1, without debate; No. 3, Education (Admission to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: This is very unpresidential.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Are they on the same panel?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Senator Wilson's clarification of his intention. I hope he remains in this House. To have one Member of the Opposition running against another for the position of President would be unbelievable. The Senator would make a wonderful President. I had the honour of studying with him and I know he is a man of high values and morals. I hope he will one day run for the Áras. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It behoves the father of the House to debate the matter in a manner that befits the Bill, based on the information about the Bill not on a personality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It should not be on the personality issue. The Bill has been amended as it has gone along. If there are other changes to be made, then let us make them but let us not do so in a manner that is about a particular Minister or person. Let us have the debate about the issues relating to and aspects of the Bill. We will have that debate, subject to the result of the vote on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That will resolve it. I am not accepting the amendment. Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of the Versatis and Anne-Marie's story, which she told, is disturbing. The Minister for Health and the HSE have been before the Joint Committee on Health. Clarity is needed. It might be best for Senator Conway-Walsh to table a Commencement matter. The issue she raises is important. Senators...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We need to have a media that will hold people to account. Senator Norris is correct that with the number of members of the media tweeting and commenting, one would swear they were immune from criticism themselves when that is not the case.