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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: All of the women Ministers, at senior and junior level, are playing a key role in the development of policies and shining a positive light on the role of women in politics. I return to my point that it is an awful pity that we do not have President Clinton here on International Women's Day. What a signal that would have sent to the young women in the Visitors Gallery in aspiring to be the...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I commend Senator Conway for the motion before the House. It is important to put matters in context. The week in which we are having this debate, Government Ministers and representatives of State agencies are travelling to the four corners of the world. We have many important and historic monuments and buildings across the world promoting Ireland, for...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the former Senator, Mr. Heffernan, to the Gallery and wish him well. I hope that Limerick does not win the All-Ireland this year. The Order of Business is No. 1, Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to be taken at 4.45 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister was here two weeks ago.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: She.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 20 Senators who contributed to the Order of Business. Ba mhaith liom mo chomhgairdeachas a gabháil le Bridget Doody as ucht post nua a glachadh. In congratulating her on her appointment, we are blessed and lucky as a House to have a person of her calibre. I have had the pleasure of working with her on a number of initiatives in the Oireachtas and I have always found her to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that Members are aware there will be a motion before the House tomorrow night regarding the Grace inquiry and there will be statements on the Tuam issue on Thursday. It is imperative that as a society we deal with the awful legacies of our past, as the Taoiseach said. They are an awful blight on the name of Ireland, on our people, on our culture and on ourselves. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister for Finance to pull the hand brake a small bit in terms of the Central Bank. We all accept that there should be regulation and oversight. The credit union movement that Nora Herlihy set up was not meant to be considered a bank but to work for people in communities in all parts of Ireland. I am very concerned at the way the Central Bank has treated credit unions. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Humphreys, has commissioned a report on rural Ireland that shall be chaired by Pat Spillane. I am of the viewpoint that we need post offices in rural Ireland. The Government is committed to rural Ireland and the Minister was in the House. We have an Action Plan for Rural Development. If the Senator wishes to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am happy to invite the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, to the House-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----if the report ever sees the light of day.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important to note the Action Plan for Jobs because more people are now back at work. The biggest area of job creation in this country was outside Dublin in the past year. Approximately 1,300 jobs per week have been created. As much as 70% of the jobs created last year were located outside Dublin. That proves the recovery is beginning to happen beyond Dublin, which is a fact that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Heritage Bill 2016 - Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to be adjourned not later than 5 p.m. if not previously concluded. To clarify it for the House, this is not a guillotine but rather that we will conclude our deliberations for the day at 5 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a gentleman.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 15 Senators who contributed to the Order of Business. Senator Ardagh mentioned the help-to-buy grant. The figures available last week show that 2,161 applications have been made and 307 have been approved to proceed to finality. As the Senator quite rightly said, the scheme is about assisting first-time buyers to put together a deposit and encouraging the construction of new...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It might have been my iPad and I apologise if it was. It is important that when we debate mental health, we put on record that a lot of work is being done and there is investment. We need to do more because mental health services were the Cinderella of the health service for years. There has been investment and we have a Minister of State committed to the service. Senator Gavan raised the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The question Senator Norris posed about property tax is with what would it be replaced. It goes back to the old question we all have on how to fund the provision of services and the provision of facilities for people. I join with Senator Kieran O’Donnell in extending sympathy to the deceased man’s family after that tragic motorway accident. He is right to highlight the issue...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Domestic Violence Bill 2017, Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. with the time allocated to group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes; and No. 2, Private Members' business, motion No. 17, to be taken at 3.30 p.m. with the time allocated to the debate not to exceed...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: No.