Results 421-440 of 23,551 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We would have said "Yes".
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government did not listen to Senator Mary White on child care and will not listen to her now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Show us the money. Where did it go?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: A simple answer to the question will suffice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: You do a lot of that all right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I join with Senator Fitzgerald and other speakers in raising the issue of road safety. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Transport here because it is alarming that, according to today's Irish Independent, the road safety chief, Mr. Gay Byrne, stated, "It looks like we will go right through 2008 with no speed cameras, and this makes the members of the board very tetchy and makes me...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government pays lip service to the people. We saw it last week from the Members opposite on the Cork docklands, and they should be ashamed of themselves, particularly Senator Boyle.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Last December we were promised in the budget that funding would be provided, and it was not. We were told to wait for the Finance Bill but it is not in the Finance Bill. I am disappointed in the Members opposite who have not the voice to be heard in Government. They should be ashamed of themselves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I would like a debate on the Cork docklands. We have been treated badly by this Government and its Members should be ashamed of themselves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a bit late for that now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is a completely new departure for the Senator, and he knows it. It is important now that it suits him and his party in Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator was singing a different tune last year when he was in Opposition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That has been well documented and the Senator knows it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator was quiet.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I got the Harry Potter version.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The bottom line is that no funding is being made available.
- Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share time with Senator Bradford.
- Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is with great pride that I stand here in the Upper House of the Oireachtas to pay tribute not only to those who drafted our Constitution 70 years ago, but also to those who have amended it. I refer not to the Judiciary or the Members and former Members of the House, but to the people of Ireland, who are enshrined as beholders of the sovereign power in the Constitution. Like Senator...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.