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Seanad: Business of Seanad (6 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Notwithstanding what was agreed to on the Order of Business today, it is proposed that the House adjourn at 9.30 p.m. or on completion of Committee Stage of the Data Protection Bill 2018.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to advise the House that the Minister is unavoidably delayed. My apologies to the Members present. Therefore, I propose we suspend until 10.45 a.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the notification of a vacancy in Seanad Éireann arising from the resignation of Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, ráitis maidir le Seachtain na Gaeilge, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to conclude not later than 2.15 p.m., with the time allocated to group...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: His transfers worked well.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: He can vote for Fine Gael anytime.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the Leas-Chathaoirleach mean the Private Members' Bill?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I said Report Stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Report and Final Stages.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 17 Senators who contributed to the Order of Business today. I wish first to recognise, as Senators Coffey and Mark Daly rightly said in their contributions, the importance of the flag and what it symbolises. I commend Thomas Francis Meagher on giving us the Tricolour. As Senator Coffey has said, we should reflect on what the Tricolour represents. It is important that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and at the Oireachtas committee for a long time. The events of the past week illustrate the need for Irish Water.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It illustrates the need to upgrade and maintain our water infrastructure and its network. I think 111 million gallons of water was wasted yesterday or leaked, but I am open to correction, which is equivalent to the amount of water that Cork city uses on a daily basis.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The reality is Senator Ardagh's party was in government for 17 years but never invested in water infrastructure.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: In the city and county that I represent raw sewage was being pumped into Cork Harbour. Are we going to sustain such a situation for the rest of our lives or do we want to get real? I join Senator Ardagh in asking Irish Water to communicate effectively and efficiently with the people affected by the current water crisis. There is a need to recognise the fact that there are water leakages....

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The job of Opposition is very easy, Senator Conway-Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's colleagues in the North pay for water and pay well, and pay rates.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us get real now.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us not have-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Not only can I, I am doing so.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Ardagh in her appeal for people to donate blood. Yesterday, the Minister for Health appealed to people to donate blood and made a very strong statement on the matter. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has requested people to donate. I ask Members of the House to encourage people to donate blood through social media and other means. Senator Ardagh is 100% correct when she...