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- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: He did not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: At all times he co-operated with the Committee of Public Accounts, providing all documentation-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----providing all information.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: He refutes all suggestions of inappropriate meetings with Cerberus. He was not invited by the Committee of Public Accounts to discuss this and the Minister has no role-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister has no role. The Senator might understand this if she goes back and reads-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Let me quote from the Minister's speech in the Dáil last night. He stated: "The Committee of Public Accounts has accepted my long-standing position derived from law that in these circumstances, it was not within the powers of the Minister for Finance to direct NAMA to halt the sale process." Let us make that quite clear. Let me repeat, the minute of the meeting with Cerberus is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the new found Sinn Féin probity about how our country is managed and governed. I keep smiling. Sinn Féin is a high tax and high spend party - a tax and spend party. It does not believe in responsibility in government-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The reality is that it heard the hooves in Tallaght of Deputy Paul Murphy and it needs its P60. Ever since then it has been running for cover.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Fine Gael Party has always been a party of probity, responsibility and fiscal management in government. We have always wanted to ensure that we would have a fair, robust and multilateral approach to the future funding of domestic water. I want to join with all the Senators who commended Senator Ó Céidigh for his chairmanship and stewardship of the committee and to commend the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not quoting from the water report, but the Cathaoirleach is correct. Senators Dolan, Ardagh and Colm Burke also raised the issue of disability. As Senator Dolan knows quite well, Ireland is committed to ratifying the UN convention. There is a number of pieces of legislation that must be dealt with first. What we must do, and we should find a common approach, is in the context of...
- Seanad: Companies Act 2014: Motion (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Companies Act 2014 (Section 1313) Regulations 2017,a copy of which was laid before Seanad Éireann on 9 February, 2017.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: In light of the voting block in the Dáil continuing, I propose that we suspend until that concludes. I apologise to Members of the House and to members of staff for the inconvenience. We thought we had an agreement that there would be an arrangement with regard to the voting block in the Dáil on a Thursday. Seemingly that has broken down, so we must, perhaps through the Committee...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (30 Mar 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: We will resume as soon as the voting block in Dáil is over.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] - Report and Final Stages to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and to conclude no later than 5.15 p.m., if not previously concluded, by the putting of one question, which shall in respect of amendments include only those set down or accepted by the Government; No. 2,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It will be just after 5.15 p.m., depending on whether there is a vote. If there is a vote on the Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill, then the Companies (Accounting) Bill will be taken whenever that is finished.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Debate on the first Bill should end at 5.15 p.m.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator going to praise the Government?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Will Senator Leyden show respect to the Chair?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I dtús báire, I wish to amend my opening remarks on the Order of Business. As the amendment is there for discussion, there will not be a single question on the issue as raised by Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: As regards the Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016, it is to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and will conclude no later than 5.15 p.m. if not previously concluded. I wish to clarify that there will not be a single question, it will be just taken at the end of the debate. I join with Senator Conway in sympathising with Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee and her husband John on...