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Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister has. If he forgets his commentators and advisers and speaks to ordinary people in Dublin West or Cork South Central, he will learn they have no confidence in the Department of Finance, the Government or the banks and bankers. They are absolutely petrified. I am not a rocket scientist, but I understand the Minister's initial comment, way back when all of this began, was that it...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister can and I will come back to it again. Who is now dictating to us? Is it the European Union, the IMF, the European Central Bank, Mr. Elderfield, the Attorney General or the mandarins in the Department? Looking at the rest of the section, we have not protected the interests of the ordinary person. We can have a debate about bondholders and other sectors, but we all accept that...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We supported the Government on the first night.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us be fair, we supported the guarantee.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister. I listened to his speech in my office. If I closed my eyes, I could picture him giving the same speech in any part of the world. He is oblivious to the fact the budget, of which this is almost the culmination, was unfair. It is important for us to have a national debate on the political system. The level of frustration and anger among the people at the political...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Mary White has one minute left.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: On the Appropriation Bill please.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Bradford without interruption.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2010 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He is Hogan's sidekick.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to contribute to this very important Adjournment debate. I am conscious of the nature of the Minister of State's departmental responsibility. It is important that the construction of a new primary school in Ballygarvan be expedited. The area has been waiting for a new school since the late 1990s. There are many...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister for this reply. I welcome the fact that we will see a new school next year. I hope there will be no further roadblocks.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: St. Patrick's Day in the White House.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: White smoke, carbon neutral.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a date for leaving Government?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Give us a date for leaving Government as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It has had so many turns it is like a roundabout.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator O'Toole and other speakers in saying there is good news and there are positive signs and optimism that Ireland will have a new Government this time next year.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: They are very much looking forward to having a change of Government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and having a positive outcome-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The difficulty with Senator Boyle is that the Green Party does not know when it is leaving Government.