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- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not in the budget. The Senator should deal in facts and not spread rumours. There is nothing in the budget about that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: Nílimid.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: Good man.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 21 Senators who predominantly raised the measures in the budget. I will deal with them as best I can and I apologise if I miss some of the points made. I echo the words of Senator Ned O'Sullivan. If one were to listen to the merchants of doom and gloom, we would return to the situation of 2001 and 2011 as opposed to where we are today, where more than 2 million people are at...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: I have.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: This is the first of three budgets under the confidence and supply arrangement with Fianna Fáil. The only party that wanted to go into government was Fine Gael. The Independents joined us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil opted out and Sinn Féin would not do anything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: The reality is that the only man who wanted to lead a Government was Deputy Enda Kenny, and he has done that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: The sacrifices -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: The sacrifices of the people of Ireland along with the political leadership of the last Government and this Government have brought our country to a better place than when we took office. This budget may not be perfect but we are not going back to the days of boom and bloom, to borrow a famous phrase from a former Minister for Finance, former Deputy Ray MacSharry. If one looks at the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: In its alternative budget, Sinn Féin was proposing €1 billion worth of new taxes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: That party will send people on the emigrant boats and planes -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: ----- away forever.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: This Government is bringing people home. There are 2 million people at work. If Senator Ó Clochartaigh had his way, we would have placards from here to the Red Cow and across the four corners of the country. We would be back in the 1950s -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: ----- and we would be dancing at the crossroads. Today we have factories at the crossroads, we are a high-tech, low-tax country with people back at work.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Clochartaigh should be ashamed of himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: This Government and this budget -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: This budget is committed to protecting a fragile economy. Senators Brian Ó Domhnaill and Diarmuid Wilson spoke about the problems around Brexit. What this Government must do now is not what Sinn Féin would do -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: That encapsulates the approach of Senator Ó Clochartaigh and Sinn Féin to everything. We are in opposition, we will oppose, oppose, oppose. Ochóin, ochóin agus ochóin. This budget is about ensuring that what we have to spend and, to be honest, what we have to borrow is spent prudently and invested wisely. It is also about making sure that all people in all sectors...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Bacik spoke about this budget lacking ambition. Can I remind her about the 2 million people at work, representing a drop of 7.9% in unemployment from the height at the peak of our economic distress. The ambition is to lift the lives of all our citizens, whether they are working in a factory in Cork, living on the Border in Cavan or Monaghan or out in the heart of Connemara. The aim...