Results 16,301-16,320 of 24,350 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is incorrect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's party drove a wedge through it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's party drove them away.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Her party cut their pay.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's party made a mess of the economy. She has some cheek.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: They are not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Here we go.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator running?
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is the worry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am probably in stoppage time at this stage. I certainly hope we will not have VAR in the House after the soccer match the other night involving Iran and a penalty. I thank the 12 Members for their contributions. I begin with Senator Ardagh's comments on the important and welcome decision of the Government to take in 25 immigrants. I congratulate the Tánaiste and Minister for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am very fond of Senator Ardagh but she should look at what we have done in seven years. We have almost full employment and we have turned the country around. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, was here this week. When she was last here, we had the men of the IMF coming in with their suitcases on dark, grey nights.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The bailiffs were at the door, people were emigrating in their droves, the construction sector was gone, the banking model had collapsed and the country was on its knees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: All I hear from the Members opposite is "ochón agus ochón agus ochón."
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senators have a brass neck coming in here and lamenting the fact that we have the greatest number of people at work in the history of the State. We are near full employment. Under Fianna Fáil's watch, we had 15.8% unemployment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Fianna Fáil Government wrecked the country and Senator Gallagher should be ashamed of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Recent statistics show a 45.7% increase in construction activity. I assure the Senators opposite that the Government is bringing the same determination to housing as it brought to the Action Plan for Jobs. I accept the frustration of Members with regard to housing but we should put the issue in perspective. I mean this genuinely. Our construction sector was decimated and our banking...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We need competition and-----