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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Gender quotas have helped to bring more women into politics. Perhaps the Senator's assertion that some token women ran in the most recent general election is correct, but I hope that is not the case.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: All of the women Ministers, at senior and junior level, are playing a key role in the development of policies and shining a positive light on the role of women in politics. I return to my point that it is an awful pity that we do not have President Clinton here on International Women's Day. What a signal that would have sent to the young women in the Visitors Gallery in aspiring to be the...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I commend Senator Conway for the motion before the House. It is important to put matters in context. The week in which we are having this debate, Government Ministers and representatives of State agencies are travelling to the four corners of the world. We have many important and historic monuments and buildings across the world promoting Ireland, for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Apologies have also been received from Senator Diarmuid Wilson.

Committee on Public Petitions: Promoting Awareness of the Public Petitions Process: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome all the representatives and thank them for their presentation and for being here. The citizens information website and the way it portrays the Committee on Public Petitions is to be commended because it is quite clear on what is asked of the petitioner. Do the witnesses think that we should make our language more easy to follow, less cumbersome and less inhibiting for those who...

Committee on Public Petitions: Promoting Awareness of the Public Petitions Process: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Can I be excused? I have another meeting to go to. My apologies, I have to leave.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 2, statements on the announcement by the commission of investigation confirming human remains on the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to conclude not later...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 14 Members who contributed on the Order of Business. Ar mo shon féin, ar son Fhine Gael agus ar son gach Seanadóir sa Teach, déanaim comhbhrón le muintir Annmarie O'Brien agus na leanaí a fuair bháis. Today we remember Annmarie O'Brien, Paris, Holly and Jordan. As I stated yesterday, it is important to recognise that the loss of life is tragic....

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to make a distinction.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: They have an obligation and duty to live up to their side of the bargain. I would be very happy for the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, to come to the House. You said we should not revisit the debate, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, but in his reply to Senator Boyhan today the Minister said that under the 2002 indemnity agreement, 18 of the religious congregations that managed...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that we have such a debate but it is also important that we do not airbrush history and allow people to not live up to their obligations. The Minister in his reply to Senator Boyhan today said: "we have to ask questions as to why organisations with stated missions to serve the public and uphold moral codes apparently place so little importance on these values."

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: That must be said. We cannot stymie that, irrespective of what people's views are.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am. Given the magnitude of the issue that is before us as a society and as a House, as Leader of the House-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----it is incumbent on me to focus on this issue in replying to the Order of Business, which every single household is talking about.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: You must be in a hurry, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Conway-Walsh is trying to goad me into having a cat and mouse game. I fully accept that the facts she presented are her version of reality.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I accept that there is a lot of work that we need to continue to do. I have no issue with that, Senator Conway-Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The point I wish to make in this context is that the domestic violence legislation has been enacted, the Tánaiste has launched the national strategy and, in addition, Tusla, which is the organisation charged with the responsibility, is providing funding for 60 services throughout the country: €12 million for emergency refugee support services; €4.6 million for...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: We had a debate as part of the domestic violence Bill. We had extensive debate on the issue. Thanks to the co-operation of the entire House------