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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am amused at the defensive nature of Senator Devine.Me thinks she doth protest too much. For the Senator's information, her party leader raised the summer economic statement and I am replying to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am replying to that. She also referred to a number of issues to which I am also replying. If my reply does not suit her, that is not for me to say but I look forward to her party having its costed economic proposals-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I know the Senator's party is a high tax party and it tries to play the card for everybody.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Some day, the three card trick does not work.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: They will be a bit like the fellows in Cahirmee this week. They will get caught out sometime.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: We look forward to their fiscal projections and seeing how they can balance the books-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----while at the same time, continuing the Government's great economic policy of having more people back at work, something the Sinn Féin Members have never congratulated us on.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Something they have never done.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I look forward to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will accept Senator Kelleher's proposal. Senator Gallagher raised GP cover for rural areas. I would be happy for the Minister to come to the House. The ten-year health strategy has been published and we will have to wait for a debate on that. We need to look at how we can change the health landscape in the context of an evolving Ireland. A new Department responsible for rural Ireland...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: He was not a member of the committee.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I acknowledge that, but the committee I chaired, of which Senator Colm Burke was a member, did some significant work.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that a policy change take place. It is my understanding the Minister was to bring the Bill to the Cabinet this morning. I would welcome the putting in place of the infrastructure to see the legislation passed. As Senator Colm Burke rightly said, there has been an increase in the number on dialysis. Costs have also increased. I reassure Members that it is not my intention...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----or send him to Hawaii or Inishvickillane where he could reflect on the political world.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not want Members to brought be back in August.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure it would be in the interests of our health and well-being. Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh referred to voting rights in presidential elections. To the best of my knowledge, Government policy has not changed. To his credit, the Taoiseach has appointed Deputy Ciarán Cannon as Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora to continue the work of the previous...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: If Senator Craughwell will accept my bona fides, I will endeavour to get a date from the Minister in regard to his request.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat. The Order of Business is No. 1, Domestic Violence Bill 2017 - Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and to adjourn not later than 7 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No. 2, statements on Finite Lives, Dying, Death, and Bereavement: An Examination of State Services in Ireland, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1 and to conclude not later than 8.30...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 22 Members who have contributed to the Order of Business. Senators Ardagh, Boyhan and Conway-Walsh all raised the issue of the cath laboratory in Waterford. In last week's debate, Senator Coffey made reference to health apartheid. Senator Conway-Walsh, in her remarks, posed a very good question which we can use as a starting point. Irrespective of where we are from, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank her for her many years of service and wish her well in her retirement. I do not mean retirement as she is a young woman, but in the next phase of her life. I wish Dan Mulhall every success in taking up the baton in Washington D.C. Senator Craughwell also made reference to payments in regard to the Defence Forces. I would be happy to have the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, come...