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- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will do so, no bother------
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----because he was the architect of the HSE and he is the person who created the organisation that now runs the health system.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a failed entity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us have that debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is continuing with his poor judgment again. I will not have that debate with him and will not go to his level. When he goes low, I will go high.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: When Senator Leyden goes low, I will go high.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The number of people on waiting lists is unacceptable. These are human beings, fellow citizens of ours, and they deserve better from our health system. It is time for holistic change regarding the use of theatre spaces. Senator Kelleher referred to Cork University Maternity Hospital and I very much welcome the appointment of Professor John Higgins to his new role. I support him, wish him...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I certainly would not believe everything in that regard. In his budget speech, the Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform made it quite clear that there would be a review of public expenditure. I hope that budget 2017 will be seen as a budget for the disabled because Senator Dolan is correct when he says that expenditure has been-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The budget in the autumn of 2017. I would certainly be happy to organise a debate not with the Taoiseach, but with the Minister for Health, because he is the line Minister with responsibility. I would be happy to work with Senator Dolan in that regard.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I would make the point to Senator Dolan that we have set up quite a few cross-party subgroups in this House and perhaps we should consider setting one up for disability too. In that way we can work across party lines as we are doing on mental health and obesity and as we did on symphysiotomy in the previous Oireachtas. I would be happy to talk to the Senator further on that. I would also...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The issue raised by the Senator is one that both he and Senator Gabrielle McFadden have raised previously in the House. I will be happy to have it discussed again. Ireland 2040 is of importance. I will be happy to have the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, come to the House to debate it. I have issued a request for the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, to come to the House for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to conclude not later than 2.45 p.m. if not previously concluded, with the contribution of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes, all other Senators not to exceed five minutes and the Minister to be called upon to reply not later than 2.35...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is more than that, in fairness.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 15 Senators who raised matters on the Order of Business. I join Senators Catherine Ardagh, Aidan Davitt and Diarmuid Wilson in offering solidarity and our thoughts to the men and women employed at Hewlett Packard in Leixlip who have this morning heard the appalling, tragic news of job losses. It is most disappointing and words will be of little solace to those who work there. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Its Members can come into the House and spout their great theories, but it is a high tax and high spend party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is not interested in the answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is never interested in it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Rose Conway-Walsh is never interested in knowing the real facts. Her party wants to tax people and spend its way out of everything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: There is an election in the North and some day it will be found out up there also. Its policies have done nothing to help communities in the North.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government must balance the need for foreign direct investment and to create jobs. Senator Colm Burke is right: when we took over in government, 15% of citizens were unemployed; today the figure is 7.1%. That means more men and women are at work, contributing to the State in order that more can be spent on health services. There is an extra €2.6 billion for capital...