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Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (4 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it not the case that the €48 million is not given for sports capital funding?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Fitzgerald and other Senators in calling for a debate on the financial crisis facing many couples and partners in their homes. The biggest threat to family life today is paying the mortgage in a mortgage crisis situation. This massive crisis is putting a strain between partners and between husbands and wives. It is unbelievable. We have an obligation to protect the family...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes you can.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is incorrect. The activities of the implementation body on the Croke Park agreement are dependent upon receiving schedules from Departments. Senator O'Toole is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator O'Toole's remarks are pertinent. It is the Minister and senior civil servants who set policy. That is why we need to have a debate to receive clarification and a setting out by each Department of its objectives and targets regarding implementation. That must happen. Reform of the public sector, linked with the Fine Gael document, Reinventing Government, would empower and...

Seanad: Effects of Recession on Mental Health: Statements (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share time with Senator Bradford. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The debate is on the effects of the recession on mental health. The effects, to quote a friend of mine, are extraordinary. The need to look after our mental health is far more important today than it has ever been in the history of our State. That is the reason it is important we provide adequate funding and...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey: Motion (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: They were the Minister of State's colleagues or partners in Government.

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey: Motion (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The Minister of State is correct in saying that the survey will not immediately change reality for those living in unfinished housing developments. It presents strong evidence for the delivery of action. The remarks of the Minister of State are at odds with the comments of the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran. He said he would not leave houses empty...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey: Motion (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is. The Minister of State, Deputy Cuffe, impresses me. He is in a boat on his own at times. I wish he was not in the Government of which he is a member.

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey: Motion (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: As we know, the boat is on the rocks, but in fairness to the Minister of State, he is trying to stay on it.

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey: Motion (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister of State must deliver. I accept he cannot do it by himself but he must lead people. We are talking about people. This is about sustainable communities. If people mean anything to us, we should build vibrant communities, urban and rural, in Leitrim, Cork or wherever. As we speak, people are living in terrible, unfinished estates. Many of them are in negative equity,...

Seanad: Flood Relief (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Gabhaim buíochas don Chathaoirleach mar gur thóg sé cead dom an rún seo a chur roimh an Teach, agus cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Áine Brady. The motion calls on the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, whom I know is unable to be here tonight, to make an immediate announcement regarding the contract for the Lower Lee flood risk management scheme. The Minister of State...

Seanad: Flood Relief (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. It is extraordinary that the flooding concerned occurred in 2009 and that the Minister of State has stated in her reply to the motion that "it would likely be some time in 2012 before construction works could commence". That is a sad indictment of the processes and procedures we have in place. It is of little consolation to the people of Cork...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator O'Toole in asking for a debate on the Government's four-year plan. Senator Boyle made a good point, that we did not adhere to strict financial rules, and that is partly why we are in this mess. I ask that, as part of the debate on the four-year plan, the Government would introduce a stimulus plan which includes the construction of the metro north and the Cork docklands...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is also important that the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Tánaiste come to the House to explain why we now have no sugar industry in this country. It is extraordinary that the European Union is now importing sugar when we have closed the Mallow and Carlow sugar beet factories. Was it out of pure greed, to look after friends of Fianna Fáil? Who gave the advice to...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: That decision was clearly wrong and the information was incorrect. We now have another example of a bad Government decision. It was bad Fianna Fáil-led Government policy that impacted on rural areas and the towns of Carlow and Mallow. It is important that the Minister, Deputy Smith, and the Tánaiste come to this House to explain the Government's policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We are living beyond our means. He could say, like Charlie Haughey, that we are living beyond our means.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is monitoring local radio stations.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There are more people in the Government Information Services than in the entire Civil Service.