Results 261-280 of 23,551 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: We are being zapped. The Senator is being beeped.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that an open invitation?
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: They do not do so.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share my time with Senator McFadden, by agreement. I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for her comprehensive reply. I do not want this debate to degenerate into politics.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: As a teacher, however, I have to say that there is a great deal of frustration and angst among teachers about integration which requires urgent attention. I take the Minister's point about this but the policy does not work. I was in a classroom last year with 15 students, ten Irish and five from elsewhere and it was completely frustrating.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: It was a bottom stream class. I was lucky.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Colleagues of mine teach examination subjects to classes of 35 and 33. They are in a much worse situation. I wish to push on, however, and make a few points.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: There was a debate on the National Educational Psychological Service in the other House yesterday. Mental health is a subject close to my heart because I am involved with COPE foundation in Cork. There has been a significant increase in the number of children identified with autism, Asperger's syndrome and other pervasive developmental disorders. We need to consider this issue here....
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The independent republic.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Mind the cod.
- Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator O'Sullivan has done well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: He is very consensus-orientated.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: We are the consensus party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: When the Government is in trouble, it will call us up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government will call us up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Where is the consensus between the Minister and the Minister of State on the issue?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government is for nothing and against everything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: They were fairly short of consensus across the Chamber last night.