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- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 11 Members of the House for their contributions to the Order of Business. I join with all Members who have expressed their words of sympathy on the death of the late Emma Mhic Mhathúna. Senator Conway-Walsh is correct: the legacy she leaves should be such that this never happens again. Irrespective of where we are from or who we are, we are all appalled by the tragedy that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is important to recognise that the Minister has committed Ireland to join the Paris collaborative on green budgeting. He has ensured that in the national development plan, €1 in every €5 in Exchequer investment will be devoted to climate change measures. Senator Humphreys raised the issue of Moneypoint. It is this Government that is ending the grid's dependency on Moneypoint.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator was a Minister of State in a Government so he knows quite well-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a great sign of a budget when the main Opposition party can come in and all it can talk about is 2025. The Government is committed-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government is committed. Senator Humphreys criticised the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten. The Minister published Ireland's first statutory national adaptation framework in January, which committed Ireland to achieving certain targets.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: In budget 2019, we will see the following: €103.5 million for improvements in grants and premium rates for planting forests; the introduction of the beef environmental efficiency pilot, which will improve carbon efficiency in beef production; €70 million for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme; and an additional €70 million for the environmental waste...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thought the Order of Business-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thought I was replying to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I like to give a comprehensive reply to the Order of Business, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach knows.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: If one takes the logic of Senator Humphreys and others, including Senator Devine, who spoke on climate change, to its next conclusion, what is extraordinary is that they want to put an extra levy on the ordinary man and woman in terms of coal, home heating oil, peat briquettes and sticks. That is what the Senators have argued for.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is what the Senators have argued for.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senators are telling the plain people of Ireland that they want to tax them more thus targeting them further but this Government is not doing that. We will have the debate, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach has said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not, no.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I do not deny there is climate change.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am actually not, on the contrary.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We are committed to doing that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Humphreys may well try to lay that political charge on me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a bad sign when Senator Humphreys has been reduced to tackling the Leader of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: And I did not curse at anyone.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I join with the Members of the House in acquiescing to the call for a minute's silence tomorrow for the commemorative event and to highlight and honour the people who died on 10 October 1918 just before 9 a.m. onboard RMS Leinsteras it began its final voyage from Carlisle Pier in Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead in Wales. I would be happy to do that tomorrow and thank the Members for that...