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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ray Butler raised the important issue of quarries. It is important that we allow for local authorities to be involved, but also that the Minister with responsibility for this area, Deputy Coveney, would be involved. Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of the person in University Hospital Galway. I am happy to raise that issue with the Minister. She also raised the issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I have asked him to come in and he has given a commitment to come to the House. I commend the Green Party for its proposed legislation on microbeads. I heard the Minister discussing the issue this morning on "Morning Ireland". There is a knock-on effect and we need to have a conversation about it. I have already dealt with the issues raised by Senator Norris. Senator Michelle Mulherin...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I will come to that. They are looking to all of us to give them some type of hope in terms of cost reduction, services and value for their money.This poses the issue who should pay and who should benefit in the next budget. I look forward to the Minister coming to the House, hopefully before, or definitely after, the budget, to discuss chid care, because it is very important. The Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to be taken at 12.45 p.m.; No. 2, statements on the action plan for housing, to be taken on the conclusion on No. 1, with the time allocated to this debate not to exceed two hours and with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We are enjoying the new politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 19 Senators who raised matters on today's Order of Business. I do not mean to single out Senator Ardagh, but the intervention by the father of the House was inappropriate. I defend the right of Senators to raise any matters they want on the Order of Business and to do so in whatever manner they feel appropriate. Senator Ardagh has always been very gracious on the Order of...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not agree with the Senator, as somebody who has been a very active trade unionist.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: My point is that if one looks at the composition of the Low Pay Commission, they are people with huge experience from a wide cross section of society, including from ICTU, with which the Senator has worked closely.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister is going to look at the commission's report. It considered a wide variety of data before reaching recommendations. I was not part of it. I certainly want to see people have a decent wage, but I also want to see the country open for business and being competitive. That is the balance we must strike. Senator Diarmuid Wilson raised the critically important issue of Youthreach....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We will come again. Senator John Dolan requested that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, appear in the House in regard to the UN report on people with a disability. I would be happy to have her come to the House before Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re arrangement for speaking time on the Order of Business, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 2, motion re Standing Order 57, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1 without debate; No. 3, Paternity Leave and Benefit Bill 2016 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 2 and to conclude...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 25 Senators who raised matters on the Order of Business. The main theme was Brexit. Senators Mark Daly, Conway-Walsh, Ó Donnghaile, Coughlan, Feighan, Richmond and Paddy Burke raised matters relating to it and the Taoiseach's remarks yesterday in Glenties. It is important that the House has a timely debate on the role of Senators in the country's future post-Brexit and on...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope not but if there are, they are not moving towards me. Senator Mulherin raised the constituencies boundary commission. That is an independent group chaired by Mr. Justice Haughton and Members who have an issue with the commission should communicate directly to it. I will be happy to invite the Minister to the House. We will debate the matter anyway when the Bill is brought to the...

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That the Leader of the House be called to reply to the Order of Business no later than 55 minutes after the proposal of the Order of Business; that the contribution of each group leader shall not exceed three minutes; the contribution of every other Senator shall not exceed two minutes; and the reply of the Leader of the House shall not exceed ten minutes.

Seanad: Standing Order 57: Motion (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Standing Order 57 be amended by the addition of the following paragraph: "(2) On the recommendation of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges and with the leave of the House, representatives and persons in public and civic life may attend and be heard in the Seanad.”

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the Minister of State, I must point out that it is important that the issue before us, which is a matter of public concern, should be addressed and investigated. Anomalies and irregularities in transactions that potentially cost the taxpayer must be investigated. The Government's approach to this has been transparent, notwithstanding the fact that Deputy Catherine Murphy...

Seanad: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training: Motion (19 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: As Leader of the House, I acknowledge the presence in the Visitors Gallery of Sr. Maureen. I congratulate her on being 100 years young and wish her a happy and enjoyable day. It is a tough task to follow Senator Martin Conway because everything he said was apt and important. I am thinking particularly of what he said about the reopening of the Garda College in Templemore, the best way to...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, to the House. I start on a discordant note with Senator Ó Clochartaigh. We had very good Irish Water clinics in the last Oireachtas. My experience was 100% positive in that regard.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Today is a very important day because it is the beginning of new politics. It is Fianna Fáil reinventing itself as the catch-all populist party. I welcome the fact that we are going to have a commission.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Jul 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil has never done the right thing.