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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Talk of fairness in today's budget is premature when one considers the way the Government has dealt with the elderly, those with special needs and cystic fibrosis patients. Can we have a debate on unemployment? I call for a debate on social partnership. I welcome the return to talks by all involved in social partnership. It is time that elected Oireachtas representatives had a role in...

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Prendergast is looking well though and is a long way from owning a free bus pass.

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I dtús, gabhaim buíochas le muintir na hÉireann agus go mórmhór, the Irish Cancer Society. I thank the organisers of Daffodil Day and pay tribute to the many thousands of volunteers who collected money on that day. In particular, I pay tribute to my local co-ordinator, Breda Ryan, who I know well and who did a great job in organising it. At the...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Why does the Senator not go canvassing on that point?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will Senator Boyle say that when he is out canvassing?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: He should not lecture us with his pious platitudes.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: You sacrificed the people of Ireland to stay in power.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government has sacrificed the future of this island. Shame on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is extraordinary that this Government has the cheek to tax Christmas and the elderly. Senators on the Government side can forget about Ernest Blythe because what they are supporting is an attack on whatever definition Senator Boyle wants to give to middle income or low income earners. The Government has savaged the ordinary, plain decent person in Ireland. Shame on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Where is the plan in the budget for job creation, job retention and job protection? Where is it? The Leader should tell us. I want to see it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have read it. I have it here. I cannot see it anywhere. There is nothing in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: You have abandoned the people who ran to you in the last week of the last election campaign. You have sacrificed political capital in that election and you have got it now.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: You come in here every day and you pontificate, rant and rave. You have abandoned fairness.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Unfortunately, Senator Boyle has left the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What is the Leader's definition of fairness? Where is his definition of equity? I welcome the fact that the political class has been cut — there is no problem there — but the Leader should come out with me on the streets of Cork and ask the ordinary person how he or she is feeling. He or she will tell him. Senator Ó Murchú can plámás us on this side of the House. He should come...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is time we had an election and it is time we told the people to get this Government out, keep it out and never put its members back into government. The Government should be ashamed because it has the country in a mess.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: When will the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment be in the House? She is afraid to come to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: When we have the debate tomorrow, I ask that the Minister for Finance would have the decency to come to this House. He has not been in it for recent debates on finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It has not provided that anyway.