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- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It will be provided in 2018-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----with additional funding for the language and the planning process, including in respect of Údarás na Gaeltachta. As the Minister stated in his speech, our language is a vital part of our country. Senator Ó Clochartaigh does not like to hear good news but there is good news in the budget for the Irish language.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to have a debate on the diaspora. We have not had a debate for a while and it is an important one to have.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Colm Burke raised the issue of the gardaí. We all welcome the 800 extra gardaí. The Senator also made reference to an important issue in his contribution, namely, the inordinate delay experienced by the victims of crime. Those dealing with injuries are having to endure a five-year delay. I would be happy to have the Minister come to the House. Senator Colm Burke raises...
- Seanad: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2017: Motion (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Seanad Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2017,copies of which Order in draft were laid before Seanad Éireann on 22nd August, 2017.
- Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will defer to Senator Colm Burke first as he has been waiting.
- Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and commend him on his speech. Being the last speaker is often fraught with danger because one can reach out and attack but Senator Colm Burke has stolen my introduction.The decade to which Senator Colm Burke referred was a decade of cuts, emergency budgets, emigration and financial emergency. As the Senator said, some €12.5 billion was...
- Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is.
- Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Tomorrow morning at 10.30 a.m.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the referral to the joint committee of the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, to be debated on the conclusion of the Order of Business, and No. 2, statements on housing, to be taking at 1.15 p.m. and to conclude no later than 3.15 p.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will commence by welcoming my friend and former Senator and colleague, Michael Mullins, to the House. He looks well post-life in the Seanad and it was good to meet him last night. In terms of the motion, the Government requested that the motion be included in the Order Paper for today. I was certainly not aware of the abridging of the four day rule. I am happy to submit the motion again...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Please allow me to continue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: No, I have not missed the point. I am not grandstanding and merely reading out a script from headquarters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not struggling at all. Not a bit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The motion will come back after the committee debates it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: From the committee.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: As directed by the motion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Read it.