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- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It behoves the father of the House to debate the matter in a manner that befits the Bill, based on the information about the Bill not on a personality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It should not be on the personality issue. The Bill has been amended as it has gone along. If there are other changes to be made, then let us make them but let us not do so in a manner that is about a particular Minister or person. Let us have the debate about the issues relating to and aspects of the Bill. We will have that debate, subject to the result of the vote on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That will resolve it. I am not accepting the amendment. Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of the Versatis and Anne-Marie's story, which she told, is disturbing. The Minister for Health and the HSE have been before the Joint Committee on Health. Clarity is needed. It might be best for Senator Conway-Walsh to table a Commencement matter. The issue she raises is important. Senators...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We need to have a media that will hold people to account. Senator Norris is correct that with the number of members of the media tweeting and commenting, one would swear they were immune from criticism themselves when that is not the case.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We need to have a fair and balanced media.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, we are well served by the majority of our journalists who are people of integrity and of the highest calibre but they are not immune from being to held to account or criticism themselves. I smiled when I listened to 'Morning Ireland' earlier. I also smiled when I read about the matter on Twitter. However, I was not at the Taoiseach's event. We live in a society where we are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I know. I said that. The nomination process for the presidency is laid out in the Constitution. Senator Warfield will see it is available for any Member over a certain age to get a nomination by-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us await the decision of An tUachtarán on whether he is going to run again or not. Then we might have a debate on who should run against him or not or who will who might not run. There are always difficulties in the nomination process, whether internal to a party or an independent grouping. Democracy involves elections, whether for the presidency, the local authority, the European...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It would be great. I could point out to him-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I will point out two things.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The first is the failed national spatial strategy of Fianna Fáil, with its hubs, spokes and gateway towns.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The second is the €116 billion from Project Ireland 2040-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----that we will be investing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I would also be happy to show the Senator-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----proposals-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----that the Government has, such as the living over the shop scheme, enhancing the public realm-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am trying to assist. Senator Davitt is right that local authorities and local representatives must work to ensure that we protect our towns and villages because they are the lifeblood of rural Ireland. To be fair to the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, he has a programme of work and he is engaging with it. There needs to be a collaborative approach. On Senator...
- Seanad: Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders — (a) Special Committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’) is hereby appointed, to be joined with a Special Committee to be appointed by Dáil Éireann, to form the Joint Committee on Climate Action to —(i) consider the Third Report and Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly...
- Seanad: Special Committee on Withdrawal of the UK from the European Union: Motion (4 Jul 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders (1) Seanad Éireann (a) noting the continued importance for Ireland of the negotiations for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, (b) noting the continued potential impact of the negotiations on many areas of public policy, and (c) having regard to the work of the Seanad Special Select Committee on the...