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Seanad: Flood Relief (12 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not mean this in a personal way, but it is extraordinary that it takes so long to get things done. After a period of 12 months the quay walls at Grenville Place will be restored. According to the Minister of State, a report has been commissioned and will be concluded in 2011. We have already had our first flood, although it was not as bad as last year's. Business people and...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We will have to get a consensus on that issue also.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We have not said that at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: In seeking a debate on consensus, I remind the Leader and Members opposite that for the past 13 years we had no consensus when there was money to be doled out, jobs to be awarded and benchmarking to be negotiated. Why now, when there is a majority Government, does the Government want consensus given it has made a complete hames of the country? That point needs to be addressed. If the...

Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar dtús báire, cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Calleary. We are in a desperate place as a nation and as a people. Thomas L. Friedman wrote an editorial piece in The New York Times in May entitled "Root Canal Politics." He wrote: The Tooth Fairy died last night of complications related to obesity. Born Jan. 1, 1946, the Tooth Fairy is survived by 400 million children...

Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I compliment the Minister of State on the work he has done to date, to which I will return. John Boland did this as Minister for the Public Service in the 1980s. We need to reform our public sector. I say this as an unashamed public servant who comes from a family whose members have given dedicated service to the public sector. My brothers and sisters work in the public sector, as did my...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after ''Seanad Éireann'' and substitute the following: ''welcomes the announcement that a new National Advocacy Service for people with disabilities is to be set up to provide independent, representative advocacy services for people with disabilities from January 2011; condemns the Government for: — the delay in introducing the Personal Advocacy...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the House agree? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a matter of how one does it. Senator Boyle should read Dick Spring today.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the Taoiseach's letter Fine Gael was the first party to support a budget deficit target of 3% by 2014, to recognise the need for a cross-party approach and the front-loading of budgetary corrections and to agree to a four year budgetary process.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We were the first to do so. Therefore, if the Government wants to demonstrate naked political cynicism, the Green Party leader showed how last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, showed how consensus could not be reached; all he was trying to do was to save his own political life and that of Senator Boyle. Senator O'Toole raised an important issue, the advertising of public sector jobs. There is supposed to be a moratorium on public sector recruitment, but there has been a plethora of...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the Senator remember what happened in 1957?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, the Leader should withdraw his remark to Senator Alex White. His comment was unbecoming.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is bigger than that and he should withdraw the remark. It does not behove him.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking the Leader to withdraw his remark concerning Senator Alex White.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader goes on about consensus, but his remarks are unfair and wrong. He should withdraw them.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: No. I am asking the Leader to withdraw his remark.

Seanad: National Spatial Strategy Report: Statements (14 Oct 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for attending. This is an important debate in that the national spatial strategy was published with great fanfare. Undoubtedly, its implementation presents a huge challenge, given that we now exist in a different world than when it was launched eight years ago. What have we achieved since? We can see tangible results in the case of the...