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Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I choose to speak-----

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Many of the previous contributions did not deal with section 20 at all. The section is not about prohibition. It is a bit disingenuous to equate alcohol with batteries and razors in a shop. I am very fond of Senator McDowell, but that is straying across the line completely because batteries and razors are not addictive, do not alter the mind and do not cause people to get into all kinds of...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I would say that it was something like Senator Craughwell's own contribution: rambling.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt Senator Craughwell.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I did not attack anyone. I am defending the integrity of what the Minister is trying to do and I respect the right of all of us to take a different view. That is fair enough; that is democracy. I am not a zealot or a fundamentalist. I am a democrat and a republican who recognises the importance of the citizen. That is what we are doing with this Public Health (Alcohol) Bill and this is...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will come to that.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will try not to, Senator Devine. I have no vested interest in this. I am not swayed by populism, as was proven when I lost my seat at the last election. I will always do the right thing and I will always speak my mind freely whether it be in this Chamber or when I meet the Fine Gael parliamentary party. This is not a matter of division or of passing a Bill that ticks a box. We could...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a matter of survival, yes. The culture of alcohol in our society must change. Structured separation will not bring this about in itself. Perhaps we should have gone down the road of the café bar culture promised some years ago. I supported the concept at the time. Where I live in Curraheen Road in Bishopstown, for example, there are ten outlets within a stretch of less than a...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Tomorrow morning at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Before we begin the Order of Business I would like to correct the record of the House. During yesterday's Seanad discussion of the situation in Catalonia the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, stated that the Taoiseach had met the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, on the fringe of a recent Council of Europe meeting. The Taoiseach was not, in fact, able to meet Prime Minister Rajoy on...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) 2016: Message from Dáil Éireann, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. with the contributions of all Senators not to exceed five minutes and the Minister to be given not less than five minutes in which to reply.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Who would Senator Craughwell like?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Yourself? Micheál Martin? Or will we bring back Willie O'Dea?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Do I see Trump II?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: That record has been played.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The script does not change this week.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: He had to be challenged.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 18 Members here this morning for their contributions on the Order of Business. Senator Ardagh made reference to the European Committee of Social Rights versus Ireland. Senator Devine raised this matter on Tuesday on the Order of Business as well. I remind the House that the committee did not find against Ireland in respect of any violation of the many provisions of the human...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: They ignore the fact that investment is taking place. It is about people being able to stay and live in the communities where they grew up. Let us be fair about it rather than coming in here every day to try to denigrate Government and say nothing is happening. Action is happening. Senator Ardagh made reference to the ESRI and the Department of Health. The Minister for Health, Deputy...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Again, I wish to acknowledge, as I did on Tuesday, that there are issues of retention regarding members of the Defence Forces. Whether he chooses to recognise it, the fact of the matter is clear: recruitment is under way and investment is ongoing, including in new naval ships, capital projects and equipment. There has been an increase in budget 2018 to reverse the pay cuts and restore pay...