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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden will get no transfers that way.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden wrote to Fine Gael councillors seeking transfers. He has some cheek.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is with The Beano.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, to the House to have an urgent debate on the cuts in pharmacists' margins. I note The Irish Times today had a report that the Minister has written to Fianna Fáil backbenchers. Could the Deputy Leader tell the House whether the Green Party has been ignored because it has become irrelevant or has locked into the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What is it called? Is it called abstentionism?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Can the Leader invite the Minister to the House? It is important we have a debate and that the Minister outline to the House the contingency plans if 700 pharmacists opt out of dispensing medicines to medical card holders. These are old and young vulnerable people who are on treatment and need medicine the most. Senator Ross is correct. What is the plan? We do not want people to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, will the Leader define what "guillotine" actually means?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: An bhfuil tú faoi bhrú?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thought the Leader was infallible.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil lost 16% of that vote in June though.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: They buried the Progressive Democrats and they will bury the Green Party next.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that a U-turn or a handbrake turn?

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I remind Senator de Búrca that the Fine Gael Party is in favour of greater efficiencies and creating better value for money, be that in health or any other sphere of the public service. However, we will oppose and resist the issues causing legitimate concern to many organisations and people with regard to the quality of service for...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: There is none.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I was a member of a regional health forum, and there is none.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: A vacuum has been created that has not been addressed.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I second the amendment. The Minister said yesterday that the most important exemption by far relates to principal private residences. He also dealt with the issue raised by Senator Paudie Coffey. It is important that we nail the definition of principal primary residence. I do not believe it is the Minister's intention in this legislation to penalise the elderly - that would not be his...