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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government is taxing the elderly. Does that make the Senator happy?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Tom Parlon?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is not caused by the Opposition.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it fair that the Leader's Government is taxing the elderly? Is it fair that this Government is now placing into the tax bracket further numbers of those on low income? Will the Leader clarify that it was the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government that negotiated the medical card deal and is now to take it away? That is the reality and Senator O'Malley might take notice of it. ...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I will re-phrase it. Is it fair that a certain sector of society is being looked after with sweetheart deals? I ask the Leader for a debate as a matter of urgency. This is not politics but fact. The reality is that as a consequence of this budget, people are now afraid to get sick. Elderly people who should be content at this hour of their lives are now confused, upset and worried. That...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Can we have a simple answer to the question as to whether the Minister will answer questions on this motion?

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Some declaration.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The past month has been an extraordinary culmination of bad practices and a political ideology and philosophy which has funnelled and promoted greed and which, in many ways, opens a new debate about the morality of Irish life. I am not a millionaire, nor am I rich or poor. Like many of us here, I need a bank. The protection of the taxpayer must be of...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thought all Fianna Fáil people were gone as socialists. The budget for sure was not a socialist budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They are only mushrooms.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Joe Duffy did not write the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should withdraw his remarks.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Harris should withdraw that remark. He is attacking a very good man. That is a scurrilous remark.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Senator withdraw the remark?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should withdraw the remark about the Fine Gael spokesperson on Health.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That side of the House is certainly not saying the same as it said last week.