Results 321-340 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Ray Butler: Is the Deputy's family doing this work for him now?

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Ray Butler: No one else can get a job.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)

Ray Butler: When is publication expected of the customs Bill to consolidate and modernise national legislation relating to the administration of customs by a single piece of legislation?

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: When is publication due of the Garda Síochána (malicious injuries compensation) Bill, which will provide a revised scheme for compensating gardaí who have been maliciously injured during work?

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: I refer to two Bills. When will the greyhound Bill be published? I welcome the strategic plan for the industry for the coming five years. I am sure many Deputies are seeing many people in their constituency offices in respect of a housing Bill that would strengthen the regulation framework for social housing, provide statutory underpinning for a new scheme of housing assistance payments, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Yesterday in the Dáil, I referred to the social housing Bill which will be coming before us in this session or early in the next. I see that Ms Deane has put down a supplementary note on the impact of the rent supplement scheme. One of the biggest issues I come across in my constituency office is social housing, and I am sure it is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: The previous Government had 14 years to do it, but it did absolutely nothing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: For 14 years they turned a blind eye to social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: They did absolutely nothing then. They let developers - their friends - buy out of projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: The Deputy should not say he has done anything for social housing because he has done nothing. He has been playing politics. He had 14 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: The previous Government did nothing for 14 years. We have been cleaning up its mess for three years. It destroyed the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: I will finish now but it is very hard to listen to that, when everybody knows what they did. They are a disgrace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: Who is a clown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: Who is a clown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: Deputy O'Dea should take that back. How dare he-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: I ask the Chair to ask the Deputy to withdraw the remark.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: I have every right to be here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: -----to speak for the people for whom the Deputy did not speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: The only people for whom the Deputy spoke were his big rich friends.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Ray Butler: The Deputy and his colleagues were in government for 14 years and they did absolutely nothing.