Results 8,761-8,780 of 24,338 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thought we were debating Committee Stage of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill. I have been watching the hypocrisy of Members regarding-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I have been watching and listening to the hypocrisy of Members here discussing the launch of the national development plan next Friday, which is worth €115 billion. The Taoiseach is right: the Members opposite are terrified because this is good news.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There has been extensive consultation throughout the national planning framework process. I inform Senator Murnane O'Connor that there were stakeholder events in June 2016 and two formal six-week phases of public consultation in February and March 2017 and October and November 2017, together with 40 regional events and workshops and four engagements with various-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I have not stormed in at all.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not saying the Senator did. I heard his remarks on the Order of Business, to be fair, but I am entitled-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator may have a viewpoint, to which he is entitled, and which I accept. I have a viewpoint and I want to create a proper debate with facts.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am amused-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I understand that, and-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I will not name names just to give the Senator a headline.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I will not name names just to give people some amusement.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am the calmest one of all in this debate at present.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We were told there was no consultation. Is that not correct?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am outlining through the Chairman-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am outlining through the Chairman the facts that Members opposite might not want to hear. It is incumbent on us, if we are to have a debate-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Humphrey's contribution-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not storm in at all.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There are people here who know everything.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There are people who profess to have knowledge on every subject and that is fair enough.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I advise Senator Humphreys that we have had 40 regional events, 1,000 submissions from the general public, including 150 from Members of the Oireachtas, so let us not say there was no consultation and participation.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The key point is that there was a draft plan and now we will have the final plan. Let us have perspective. When I hear Senator Murnane O'Connor say that Fianna Fáil is not political, who does she think she is codding?