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Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: I commend the Irish Examiner on its investigation into child care services. Does the Leader agree it is incredible that a national newspaper should have to wait six months to obtain information, at a cost of thousands of euro in freedom of information requests, on an issue of concern to thousands of parents? Will the Leader allow a debate on the freedom of information legislation and on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: We were not in government.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: No one raised that issue. That is not the issue; the issue is one of enforcement of the law.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: We are.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: We were talking about last week.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: That is correct.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: It is not a small amount.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not the issue.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: The information was not available.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil is good at adding noughts.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government is providing the legislation.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Do not hide.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister of State is wrong.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Norris did not say that.

Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Minister of State taking credit for that too?

Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil is in favour of new babies.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Oct 2007)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo chómhbhron a ghabháil le bean chéile agus clann Joe Sherlock. I had the pleasure of knowing Joe Sherlock politically and personally through my involvement with organisations in Cork. As previous speakers said, he was a vigorous campaigner and, in many ways, was probably ahead of New Labour in that he invented the term "socialism" in a different...