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Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: How they have changed their tune in Government.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: A man as good as the Minister from the constituency of Cork South-Central who is the Opposition spokesman——

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We have not seen it yet.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that wrong?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Secretary hours? Caretaker hours?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator could be prosecuted for his lack of understanding of this issue.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Ross for sharing time with me. I am disappointed that the Minister has gone, because he is effectively putting a freeze on educational spending and he has given us the advance notice tonight. It can be dressed up in any way, but cutbacks are here. The Fianna Fáil election promise on reducing class sizes, on its commitment to special needs, ICT and the schools building...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What happened to the people in Cork South Central, to the people of Ballygarvan and the Star of the Sea school in Passage who were waiting for a new school? We have heard the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, trotting out promise after promise and the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, now doing the same. The former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence. There have been five Ministers for Education and Science since Ballygarvan was promised a school. What are we to tell the parents, the pupils and the teachers tonight? Is it that they will be cut back or that the Government will look after them? The choice and the solution is in the Minister's hands.

Seanad: Departmental Reports (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. Cork docklands are a cornerstone of the future plans of Cork City Council, its elected councillors and its city officials, led by Mr. Pat Ledwidge and Mr. Joe Gavin, city manager. The development requires a clear commitment to deliver to Cork by, first, publishing the Cork...

Seanad: Departmental Reports (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Given the nature of the Minister of State's response, which does not fall under his brief, and given that another committee has been established to deal with the forum report, will he inform the Minister, Deputy John Gormley, that we have not received a timescale for its publication? The response states it will be published "shortly". What does this mean? Will we have action in the budget...

Seanad: Departmental Reports (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We do not need an interdepartmental committee.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government has not been doing that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's Government is cutting the child care subventions.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is on the wrong side of the House. She should come over here.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: This is a Fianna Fáil led Government——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ——and the Senator voted with it every time.