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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The tribunal is following due process.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: How many of them were plants?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What are the Senator's Cabinet colleagues doing about the strike proposed for next week?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Spoken like a true republican.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The clock is ticking.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Those opposite are all working on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is baffling that day after day, morning after morning, the Members opposite come in here and call for a debate on the future of Irish pharmacy. I respect Senator de Búrca and I understand her position but she is a member of a Government party. What is she and her colleagues on the benches opposite doing about the future of Irish pharmacy, especially in view of the impending date of 1 March?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We raised yesterday and repeatedly——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators cannot have it both ways. They cannot come in here and say one thing and go outside and say another.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators are either in a Government party or they are not.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What is the Government doing to safeguard the future of Irish pharmacists given the 1 March deadline? In his comments yesterday the Leader spoke about the Minister's diary. Will he give an update on her availability to come to the House today? It is important that if we are part of the Oireachtas, Members opposite accept responsibility for being in Government and do not come in here to...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Feeney mentioned an issue I wished to raise, given we are in Eating Disorder Week. It is an important matter that affects 7,000 people directly and has significant consequent problems for families and society. This Government published A Vision for Change in 2006 and it has not delivered in its commitment. I agree with Senator Feeney's comments. A friend of mine has a daughter...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They should exercise their limbs.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is like a Redemptorist missionary.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: He is a modern day Fr. Matthew.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: To whom is the Leader referring? On a point of information——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, is the Leader saying that those who consume alcohol——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: —— are not serious about healthy lifestyles? If that is his point, he is incorrect.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a point. Through the Chair, the Leader is inferring——