Results 721-740 of 24,320 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden got into the Council of Europe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The back pages of the Sunday Independent will be the same.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator still incarcerated? He is behaving that way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator still in Government? What about the people across from him?
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We cannot have it in Cork, a Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I support the contributions made by Senators Fitzgerald, Norris and Boyle on Burma. The television pictures and the radio reports are distressing. Those of us in the western world have let the people of Burma down badly in the past 18 months. It behoves the Government, at European Council of Ministers level, to intervene on behalf of them to get emergency aid to the area as a matter of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I am on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We need a debate on the programme for Government, which is a failed document. Senator Boyle has left the Chamber. The Green Party is now smug in Government but the mudguard is falling off the bike. There is no co-ordination, for example, on balanced regional development. The second city of this country is losing out badly. I seek an urgent debate on the programme for Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I support Senator O'Donovan's call for a debate on community life. Community life in the ten years of the Celtic tiger boom has been altered by this Government. We need an urgent debate on community life, not just in rural Ireland but across the country. People deserve leadership which they have not been getting. We need an urgent debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: No direction.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is good for us all that such a fate did not befall Senator Hannigan.
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: As the Minister of State is aware, Ballygarvan national school is in a growing area of County Cork. Its present school is grossly inadequate, and it is unfair on the students, parents and teachers who have to endure a legacy and litany of broken promises, false dawns and new beginnings. We have heard the usual story a number of times. I am disappointed that the Minister for Education and...
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and I am conscious that it is not his Department. The site was identified a long time ago. We need information on when the site can be acquired and the process can begin. I appeal to the Minister of State, Deputy Smith to bring it back to the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, that we need to put deadlines and times in place.
- Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish Deputy Smith well today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the new Government on its appointment, but I notice the truce is broken this morning with the decision of former Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to retire at the next general election. I wonder how long Senators Ciaran Cannon and Dan Boyle will stay in their positions on the Government side of the House, because we need an urgent debate on the role of Government. We have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on the issue of aviation. We have had no Minister in this House since the U-turn by the Government on the matter of Cork Airport's debt. It is important we have a debate on airport policy. Can we also have a debate on the role of RTE, given that it has asked for a licence fee increase and there is no real reason for such an increase?
- Seanad: Health Services (8 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Mary Hanafin, on her appointment as Minister for Social and Family Affairs. I wish her well in her tenure in office and hope she has a successful term there. I raise the issue of the incidence of asthma and the failure to develop a national asthma strategy. As the Minister will be aware, last Tuesday was World Asthma Day. Ireland has the fourth highest...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is about leadership.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: While it is tempting for people to vote against the Lisbon treaty to give the Government a well-deserved rap on the knuckles for its package of misinformation and broken promises, they should not do so. The Government has an obligation to look after the people of Ireland rather than misleading them. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates" television programme illustrated the Government's...