Results 10,241-10,260 of 24,339 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The budget was increased.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It was increased.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Joan Freeman should be fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should be fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The budget was increased, a Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us be fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: She is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 24 Senators who contributed on the Order of Business. I will begin by responding to Senator Catherine Ardagh and the other Members who spoke about the issue of housing. They were Senators Kevin Humphreys, Victor Boyhan, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and Catherine Noone. It is important to work together collectively to ensure the provision and supply of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I understand that, but Fianna Fáil cannot absolve itself, although I know that Senator Catherine Ardagh was not there at the time. It is about ensuring we will have supply, availability and an increase in the number of first-time buyers. We all meet people in our constituency clinics and offices who cannot get onto the housing ladder and are finding it difficult to find social housing....
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: We have to read it again. I am quite happy-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am quite happy to scrutinise the remarks that Senator Diarmuid Wilson rightly made about Sinn Féin's commitment in government in the North of our country in delivering housing. I canvassed in the Assembly election and the second issue that people mentioned to me in the North-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----was the issue of housing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us make it quite clear-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government is committed-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am glad the Cathaoirleach is protecting me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government has announced €226 million of enabling infrastructure investment to facilitate the supply and construction of 23,000 homes by 2021. That is the yardstick we can be measured on. Senator Ó Clochartaigh knows full well that one cannot just build a house in 90 seconds. It takes a bit of time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: This Government is committed to doing that and I am very happy that our record will be judged-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----on that when we come to scrutiny. Senator Craughwell raised the issue of the matter he has addressed in the House before. I am aware of the Senator's commitment and interest in our security and our Defence Forces. Again, as I said to the Senator - I fully understand his bona fides on this - I have spoken to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Minister of State at the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is important that we balance the public interest that the Senator speaks about with the greater good of national security. If he watched yesterday, in another chamber in the United States where former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was asked about matters of national security, she did not answer. The same thing applies here. We cannot compromise our national security, but I am...