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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We have given it to the Government side already. The Senator has been like a broken record for three weeks. He should read our policy in this regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Read our policy on this. It is widely available.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In echoing Senator Harris's call, it is appropriate that we commemorate Seán Lemass and acknowledge the movement he made in this country. The Government could do likewise and examine how he transformed this country. He would be ashamed and appalled at the policies pursued by former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern and the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, and the legacy they have left to this...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What would he say about the banks?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We are good students of history.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Not in the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a pity the two boys did not follow him.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thought we were not allowed to name anybody.

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a copy of the Minister's speech?

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Are there cutbacks in the Department already?

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We should have a copy of the speech.

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On the basis that this is statements on night-time rural transport and as a courtesy to the House.

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the Minister, I stress the commonality, in that I agree with him that the pilot scheme has been successful. Good initiatives have been taken and I will not argue that point with the Minister. I will begin with a quotation from a study from July 2000 by Farrell Grant Sparks, Rural Transport: A National Study from a Community Perspective: Inadequate transport has a particularly...

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Last year, the Minister stated: I believe the concept is right. When one compares what is spent by the State on urban transport with rural transport, one finds that the money spent per capita on rural transport is minuscule. This scheme should be continued with and the timetables arising from this transport scheme, which have provided benefits to many communities, should be examined....

Seanad: Night-time Rural Transport: Statements (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is showing his age.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an tAire Stáit. Picking up on Senator de Búrca's final comment, the legislation should apply in that respect as well as to all residential dwellings in multi-unit developments. Our conventional type of dwelling has changed. It would be a welcome addition to the Bill if that change could be made on Committee Stage. I give the Bill a broad welcome. It is imperative...

Seanad: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Good man, John O'Sullivan.

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I tabled this matter on heroin abuse and the escalation of drug use in Cork city because it has become a major issue in recent years. It is widely recognised that the use of heroin and other classified drugs has increased significantly in Cork and other regional centres in the past two years. What was once considered a problem in Dublin has now become entrenched in other parts of the...

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy (23 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will be very brief. I appreciate the Minister of State is taking this matter on behalf of her colleague, but this is a standard format reply, particularly the last half, on aspirational matters. The Minister of State did not say funding for the drugs task forces had been cut, that we had no detox beds and that there were waiting lists for such treatment. We cannot wait for the new...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is on day release.