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- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senators might do me the courtesy of listening.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I stated that waiting times are too long, if Senator Murnane O'Connor listened to what I said, but the Senator playing politics with it will not solve the issue. Senator Murnane O'Connor's party's history in health is appalling. Fianna Fáil ran out of the Department of Health. It had not a Fianna Fáil Minister in Hawkins House. It put the former Deputy, Mary Harney, in there and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil has not published a health document since.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am, a Chathaoirligh. Senators McDowell, Humphreys, Mullen and Wilson made reference to a combination of proposed visits to North Korea and to the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan. I make the point regarding Senator McDowell's point on the constitutionality of collective Cabinet decision-making that to the best of my knowledge, that has not changed. I have not had the privilege of being...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Humphreys asked about the handbook. It is the Secretary General in the Department of the Taoiseach, not the Taoiseach, who gives every Minister his or her handbook-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----on the first day he or she sits at the Cabinet table and explains his or her responsibilities and duties.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: There is one Government policy, there is one Government and they speak as a collective, and that has not changed. In regard to the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, it is regrettable that he used the words that he did and asked the question he did. He has admitted that he was wrong. Personally, I do not believe he should appeal the case. He made a mistake and he should definitely pay...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Clochartaigh raised the Pobal deprivation index report that was published. The Government has created the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Minister, Deputy Ring, is the first Minister at Cabinet with responsibility to respond to the challenges facing rural Ireland and to ensure that the recovery that is happening affects the four corners of the country....
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: There are positives in the report too, that Senator Ó Clochartaigh should reference as well. The Senator should not always be the harbinger of bad news. There is good news in it too and it is important to hear that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senators Humphreys and Boyhan made reference to housing, Rebuilding Ireland and affordability. I would be happy to have the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, come to the House in regard to the matter. Senators Paddy Burke and Feighan made reference to the articles written by Joe Brolly in regard to Peadar Heffron. It is disturbing to read those articles, and disappointing to hear that there...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden asked about the Government-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator asked about the Government action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator asked about the Government action and I will tell him what we have done so far. We reversed the closure of Templemore.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden supported its closure. We have reversed the embargo on recruitment which the Senator supported. We are now recruiting in the Garda. We have increased expenditure in equipment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: We have increased investment in capital expenditure in new vehicles, in new equipment and in new ways of doing policing which Senator Leyden's party put a freeze on when it was in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a long-standing Member of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It ill-behoves him to scare people, engage in populist rhetoric-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----and try to drive fear through communities. He has an obligation and a duty, as Senator Paddy Burke said yesterday-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----to work with the gardaí in their communities. I agree with the Senator that there are drug dealers and drug pushers who must be held to account.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is up to every one of us to give their names to the gardaí to help them to arrest these people and put them behind bars. Equally, as the Senator knows quite well, as a long-standing Member and former Minister of State, it is the courts that decide on the punishment, not us in this House or Government. I am happy to have the Minister come before the House and for the matter to be...