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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to raise the issue of Foinse and welcome Senator Ó Murchú's announcement that a meeting is to be held today. It is important that the newspaper should continue. While the Minister comes into this House to pontificate about what he does for the Irish language, it would be a travesty were a newspaper that is required as a source of education and information to be lost. I echo Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Where was the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach? They were inside the tent for long enough with them.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader has some cheek.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Who took special needs assistants out of schools?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Who introduced the pension and income levies?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is playing to the gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I compliment the victims who marched outside the gates of Leinster House. Their dignified protest was very moving and left many of us full of anger and sadness at what it has transpired happened to them. I join Senator Mary White in praising the report of the Sub-Committee on the High Level of Suicide in Ireland. It is extraordinary. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should not be political.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Greens could not wait to get into government.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What did the Green Party voters in Cork say?

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader did.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has been doing this for the past five minutes. He has been preaching the sermon on the mount over there but he is no Moses.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry that Senator Boyle is leaving, as I enjoyed his speech and his lecture to Members. My mother, may God rest her, had a great saying, which was that democracy is a great leveller and the ballot box never tells lies. She was right. The ballot box last Saturday unfurled a result that many Members never would have forecast two years ago and people want change. I lament the loss of...

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will take no lip from anyone in this regard. The fundamentals are quite simple. In the words of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, in the Dáil this week, "People have lost jobs. They have lost savings. They have lost pensions." The Minister failed to mention that the people have lost trust and have lost confidence in the ability of the Government to govern. Fundamentally,...

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am ready. I would love an election.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am out talking to the people four days a week.

Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Daly is afraid to speak to his party's councillors because he will have to explain why so many of their colleagues have lost their seats.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I would not bet on that.