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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Brolcháin should read Twitter. Has he been refused a job?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He will change his mind again.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Fitzgerald and others in asking for the Minister of State with responsibility for children and youth affairs to come to the House as a matter of urgency. It is extraordinary, given that the Government is supposedly concerned and holding a referendum on children's rights, that we have had a failure to protect children amid secrecy. When will the Minister publish the report...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking questions. Government is not about jobs for the boys and stepping in and stepping out.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is about showing leadership, creating jobs and having a vision to get Ireland back to work again. The only jobs in which Green Party Members are interested are their own jobs. When will we see the Government showing leadership regarding the job creation policy that has been lacking? I remind the Senators opposite——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: ——that more than 400,000 of our fellow citizens are out of work and all we get from the Green Party and Fianna Fáil is jobs for the boys and the girls, and cronyism.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: That needs to change.

Seanad: Fáilte Ireland Training Centres (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this issue and the Minister of State for being present. The future role of Fáilte Ireland training centres in the provision of training courses for persons who are unemployed in Cork, Dublin and Waterford is a source of major concern. Fáilte Ireland, with which the Minister of State will be familiar, runs skills training courses in the...

Seanad: Fáilte Ireland Training Centres (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that this issue does not involve the Minister of State's Department. I understand the Minister, Deputy Martin Cullen, is indisposed and I wish him well. I have two points which I hope the Minister of State will convey to him and his Department. The Minister of State said Fáilte Ireland had no explicit remit to train unemployed people. However, its brochure refers to...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator can read it on Twitter later on.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It was not premature at all. The Minister was afraid.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children to the House to discuss a national plan for rare diseases. Some 140,000 of our fellow citizens suffer from rare diseases and it is important for us to have a coherent national plan. I ask for that debate to be facilitated as soon as possible. In a rare moment of equality on this side of this House, I sympathise with Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am. I am asking for a debate-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on the role of the media and the way in which they cover politics. While much of Senator Boyle's plight was because of Facebook and Twitter, what happened last night on television was a very poor day for journalism. Whatever else about us as politicians, we work hard and represent the people. While we might have a different viewpoint regarding policies and...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a growing trend towards tabloid journalism which does not serve the people well.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: What about BOD?

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a matter for the Senator herself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join other speakers in asking the Leader for a debate on the Intoxicating Liquor Act. I hope the judge who will deal with the case will not interpret the legislation in such a way as to give permission to pubs to open on Good Friday. It is important to tackle the invasion of secularism and through it, money, that has become the god in Ireland. It is imperative to maintain the values that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: -----on which one can attend matches, look after those matters that are of God or take a day of rest. That said, I ask the Leader for a debate on the role of the Ombudsman and through such a debate, on the role of Parliament. I commend the bravery today of the Ombudsman, Ms Emily O'Reilly, who was dead right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Parliament no longer is accountable and Ministers no longer are either responsible or accountable. When will there be accountability and responsibility in this House? For example, Members should consider the vulgarity of Allied Irish Banks today in respect of the money it paid to its executives and directors at a time when citizens are bailing out banks. It is wrong, vulgar and sends the...