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Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an tAire Stáit. Senator Carty was going well until the end of his contribution. However, what he said earlier was correct. The banks must play a significant role in job creation and in assisting innovation and enterprise. On today's Order of Business, Senator O'Toole stated that the cost of regulating the banks last year was €39 million and that the figure will...

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Our competitiveness is being eroded. Ireland has been referred to as the builder and creator of jobs in the construction industry but what about Ireland the employer? It is stated day after day that the cost of doing business in this country is not being addressed. A Martian who landed in Ireland in 2005 and returned in 2010 would find it difficult to conceive the programme for Government...

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Talk to Joe.

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: They visit economists bringing garlic.

Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There was no contest in his re-election.

Seanad: School Staffing Levels (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thought I was second.

Seanad: School Staffing Levels (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. I wish to raise the situation of Scoil Barra Naofa Cailíní, Beaumont in Cork and paint a picture for the Minister of State regarding staffing and pupil numbers. I hope the Minister of State will have good news because this is a progressive and modern school which has tried to get the right balance between class sizes and teachers. It...

Seanad: School Staffing Levels (22 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, the last paragraph of which was disappointing. It illustrates that the Department does not show flexibility or willingness to allow students to flourish and to let their light shine. I know this area is not the Minister of State's remit but I am disappointed with the reply.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, Members opposite have given out to me in the antechamber on many occasions and I have never done anything about it. We are mature politicians and grown men and women.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: How could one follow that poodle?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Coffey made a very relevant contribution on the Order of Business. We need not only a debate on housing but real action on the issue. Thousands of people are living in housing secured with rent allowance or in council housing and they are up to their eyes in debt. At the same time thousands of houses are idle because councils across the country do not have the money to refurbish...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I would like to have a debate on journalism, public discourse and how columnists influence what is happening in the world.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Hanafin is gone but I should clarify that Mr. Alan Greenspan was the chairman of the Federal Reserve, not the Treasury in the United States.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010: Second Stage (23 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I also thank the Whip for allowing me to speak now. I compliment the Minister on the Bill. Notwithstanding the cross-party support for the legislation, some of the measures taken by the Government to tackle the drugs problem have not worked and Government policy on the wider issue of drugs and drug abuse has created major problems. I look forward to engaging...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I wonder if she would be happy about that.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not know how one could follow that.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am glad that Senator is on the road that leads to the park.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I support the comments made by Senator Coffey. This morning 50,000 students are finishing their leaving certificate and they are bereft of hope. They see a Government with no vision and no plan and their future as one of idleness from which they will be forced to emigrate. That is not what we want for them or the Ireland we want to have in the 21st century. Senator McCarthy spoke this...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am. It is a disgrace that there are so many apprentices who are now unable to finish their training and who are unable to get a proper qualification when they could be put to work either on houses that need to be finished or upgraded, or on our roads. The Government must start showing leadership and I want that debate urgently. I refer to the impending visit of the Queen. I support...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Will she get an invite to the tent?