Results 521-540 of 23,551 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: —— that people who do not drink——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is unfair to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Our Lord drank wine.

Seanad: Respite Care (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome an tAire Stáit and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise on the Adjournment the issue of respite care beds in St. Laurence Cheshire Home in Cork. There is an ongoing difficulty between the HSE and St. Laurence Cheshire Home, where there has been a reduction from three to one in the number of respite care beds. This has serious implications for 28 individuals — the...

Seanad: Respite Care (27 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Will he get a guarantee from the HSE that we will have the same level of entitlement to respite care and the same access as last year?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Cathaoirleach certainly would know.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a relationship?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: All is fair in love and war.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Harris in congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his impartiality in the Chair. I welcome and note the metanoia of the director general of RTE, Cathal Goan, and Mr. Mulholland yesterday on their conversion to the need for impartiality, independence and balance. The article in this morning's edition of The Irish Times gives Senator Harris his answer. A serious debate on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister with responsibility for community affairs has not been invited to the House since we resumed this session. This morning we have read and heard in this Chamber of the breakdown of Irish society. Those of us involved in community life, schools and sport know there is a need for a debate on the pressures exerted on young families forced to spend an inordinate amount of time stuck...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is coming from next to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Tom Parlon?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They may seem minor to Senator Harris.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us hear the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's own newspaper is doing it. His own newspaper is good at doing that — chasing circulation. Is the Senator going to attack it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That is preposterous. The Senator should withdraw that remark now. That remark is unbecoming of him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That remark is unfair. I ask the Senator to withdraw it. He is casting an aspersion on members of my party at local level and should withdraw that remark.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The remark is unfair and untrue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is an untrue remark and it should be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I call for a debate on the Private Residential Tenancies Board in light of the fact that it has changed premises and no longer has a public office. Given that many of us live in highly residential areas where properties are rented, it would be appropriate to have a debate on that matter. I attended a function in Cork the aim of which was to highlight prostate cancer. It is estimated that...