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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: We did not mention age discrimination in the Department but we all know it. Many things are being signed into law but we all live in the real world. Returning to the statistics of a person returning to the workforce, I do not want the numbers on the unemployment register to go up, but if a person is unemployed and cannot get any social welfare payment, why are they not classed as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Are they really?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: That is hard to believe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I think they must get it off Mystic Meg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I think they do. I believe that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Does every person who goes into the social welfare office get this form to fill out? I am aware of people who have gone into a social welfare office-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I find that just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I do not think that is a good way of doing it. I do not think we are getting the full picture here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I know that but I do not think we are getting the full picture here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Shelbourne Park makes a profit. There are two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: These are what he-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: He is wrong. His facts are wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Your facts are wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for their presence. The challenge for Bord na gCon is to encourage the development of a commercial racing and breeding greyhound industry. I have always said that we have underinvested in getting the message out that the facilities at some greyhound tracks are as good as four or five star hotels. We need to advertise the fine facilities at...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Fear.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: That is not true. It is nonsense.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: This is outrageous.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: This is outrageous.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: A lot of fudge.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: When is the publication expected of the casual trading (amendment) Bill, which is to bring the Casual Trading Act 1980 into alignment with the provisions of the EU services directive?