Results 9,961-9,980 of 24,571 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The point is-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----I am happy to withdraw the motion and resubmit it again next week rather than-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: No. I am happy to resubmit the motion rather then inconvenience the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is going to the committee but I will withdraw the motion on the basis that I do not want to infringe the rules regarding time length-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will withdraw the motion at the end of the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I do not want to in any way discommode the Cathaoirleach or put him in a difficult position. He knows I do not do so as Leader and we work quite well together and he is independent in the House. Senators Ardagh, Humphreys and Reilly raised the issue of transport and the pending rail strike. It is important that both sides re-engage in discussions. As Senators know quite well, the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----and is very competent and capable. I am happy for him to come to the House to discuss a variety of transport issues as Senator Reilly asked. Senator Ardagh raised the issue of respite care and struck a very important note with which I completely agree. In the forthcoming budget it is absolutely important that the emerging fruits of the economy are spent on people in a way that has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: One very true thing he said yesterday was that if one criticises Sinn Féin on any issue, there is a chorus of disapproval. It is a one-dimensional approach to everything.