Results 14,561-14,580 of 24,350 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Senator and I accept his right to make the comment but we should go down the road of tangential commentary. This is a very sensitive matter-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am entitled to my view. Let us have that debate in a respectful manner. I would be very happy to have the debate because it is one we need to have in a respectful and tolerant manner.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is doing it again. He did it in the past and is trying to do it again. I ask him not to do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am too. This is about an issue - a constitutional matter - not about a personal view of a Minister or an individual Member of any House of the Oireachtas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister is entitled to her opinion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It has not impacted on her doing her work. She is a very fine Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senators Richmond, Wilson and McDowell also raised the issue of the future of Europe. I would be very happy to have that debate and it is important that we have that debate. I agree wholeheartedly with Senator McDowell in the context of some of the "Johnny come latelies" and the movement towards federalism. The Senator is right. The remarks of President Macron on Monday were very hostile...
- Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State to the House for this important discussion. I say so not least because, as he said in his speech and rightly so, that we consider the capital plan in the context of individual projects and how best to grow and develop all regions of this country. We must also be mindful that we draw a line beyond the M50 and Red Cow roundabout so that we can ensure that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the referral to the joint committee of the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, to be debated on the conclusion of the Order of Business, and No. 2, statements on housing, to be taking at 1.15 p.m. and to conclude no later than 3.15 p.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will commence by welcoming my friend and former Senator and colleague, Michael Mullins, to the House. He looks well post-life in the Seanad and it was good to meet him last night. In terms of the motion, the Government requested that the motion be included in the Order Paper for today. I was certainly not aware of the abridging of the four day rule. I am happy to submit the motion again...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Please allow me to continue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: No, I have not missed the point. I am not grandstanding and merely reading out a script from headquarters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not struggling at all. Not a bit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The motion will come back after the committee debates it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: From the committee.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: As directed by the motion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Read it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The point is-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----I am happy to withdraw the motion and resubmit it again next week rather than-----