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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Healy Eames in urging the Leader to continue our debate on the Ryan report before the summer recess. As Senator O'Toole said, it is not good enough to park the debate now that the report has been published, and for the President, Mary McAleese, to make an apology and meet with the victims as she did last weekend. As the Second House of the Oireachtas we need to keep this...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Did he sit in your seat?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: They missed the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader missed his opportunity.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That would be some combination.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information regarding the business outlined by the Leader, is it proposed to take all Stages of that Bill on Thursday and what is the schedule for Friday, 10 July? I thought it was agreed not to take all Stages of a Bill on one day.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information, is the House sitting on Friday, 10 July?

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Like Senator Harris, I come here with a non-legal mind. However, I come with a sense of justice and a sense that we need to put things back on the right track. I welcome the Bill, the backdrop to which is the increase in crime. I welcome the comments of Senator Harris that we should examine our entire criminal justice system; let us do so not from the perspective of the legal mind but from...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We are waiting for the Bill Cullen amendment next week.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On Senator Coffey's point, I ask the Leader for an urgent debate on the Government's approach to tackling unemployment. It is somewhat nauseating to listen to Senator Hanafin talking every day about whatever he talks about. The bottom line is that this morning 140 people lost their jobs in Togher. Senator Coffey said that numbers on the live register have gone up. Yesterday in the Dáil...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Boyle has been pontificating for two years on that side of the House and unemployment has gone up. I am a bit tired of Senator Boyle's proprietorial attitude to me.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: People are losing jobs and struggling and all Senator Boyle can do is smirk across the Chamber. He should be ashamed of himself. How dare he smirk at me across the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on unemployment. I am upset this morning because people in Cork are losing their jobs. We are getting smirks across the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: People are struggling to pay their mortgages. Some are paying their mortgages with credit cards and the houses of others are being repossessed. There are people with no hope. It is the job of Government to govern and it is my job to represent the people who elected me to this House and I will do that without fear or favour. I expect Government to govern. We on this side of the House have...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We have offered more than that and the Government has never taken it up.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should not be cheeky to the Cathaoirleach.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What debate is the Senator calling for?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What is Senator Leyden asking the Leader?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden has no chance of getting transfers.