Results 441-460 of 23,552 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The rainbow warriors.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The rainbow warriors are gone missing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has done a complete U-turn. He is some fellow to talk about U-turns. The Senator's entire being when he was in Opposition was against his Government partners.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has abdicated the people of Corkââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Where is the Senator's moral compass?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator supporting the amendment?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: They did not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We are asking her to come here because we are entitled to do so. This is the second House of the Oireachtas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Boyle in asking the Leader to have an urgent debate on the Government's aviation policy. I do so conscious of the fact that I have raised the need for the Government to make a decision on Cork Airport Authority's debt on an Adjournment matter and the Order of Business. Unlike Senators Boyle and McCarthy, I believe it is ridiculous that there has been a complete Government...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the Senator doing now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the Senator doing now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: One cannot have it both ways.
- Seanad: National Waste Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hoctor, and wish the Minister, Deputy Gormley, a speedy recovery. Given that it is St. Valentine's Day, I will not heckle Senator Boyle and will be amorous in my remarks to him. I welcome his continuing opposition to the location of an incinerator in Ringaskiddy and share his concerns. At the beginning of his speech, Senator Boyle asked why so much...
- Seanad: National Waste Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I know. There is no facility in this Chamber for the use of laptops or other technologies but there ought to be if we are serious about being an e-nation, so to speak, and using modern technology. I hope the Seanad can lead the way by reducing the volume of paper it uses by using laptops in the Chamber to call up Order Papers during the Order of Business, etc. As Senator Norris said, we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I seek an urgent debate on prisons in light of the report in The Irish Times yesterday which shows levels of drug use in prisons are high. Inmates tested positive for drug use approximately 40,000 times during the past three years. This is a damning indictment of Government policy since 2006. We have seen no reduction in drug consumption in prisons despite promises from successive...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He caused it from 1977 to 1979 and from 1979 to 1981.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: They nearly bankrupted the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Time after time they have talked out of both sides of their mouths.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has kissed one of them anyway.