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Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: This is a matter of rights and young people who have been victimised.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister would have known about them, as the Minister of State knows.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Whose questions has he answered?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am intrigued by Senator Callely's talking about mud-slinging.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am building up to the question and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to contribute. I wish to raise a fundamental question. Does the Leader agree that the people have lost trust in the Government and are angry at the lack of leadership? I ask the Leader to bring the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, not to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party room, but to this House because...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should show leadership by coming in here and demanding it stops rather than going out on the plinth or on local radio stations and talking out of both sides of his mouth, which he is good at doing.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a golden circle running this country and the Members on the other side may shout in here all they want, but the people have seen through them, and it is about time they did.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a final question. I have not spoke on the Order of Business for five days and I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in. May we have a debate with the Minister for Health and Children on the appalling accident and emergency waiting times. This morning's Irish Examiner revealed that on average 43 patients had to wait more than 12 hours every day in 2008. The Minister for Health...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That is called revisionism.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: She will be hard pressed.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is; you are right.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: One can run but one cannot hide.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The regulator should reply.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kitt, to the House. All of us are representatives of the people. I am concerned at the drift in politics. The commission may have played its part in this regard. While I acknowledge Senator Ellis's great remarks in the House in regard to Leitrim, he is not the only representative promoting Leitrim. Former Deputy and Senator Gerry Reynolds and other...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: There are members of the media who parade virtues everywhere. The commission is going by the boundary review as laid out in the census of population. The terms of reference were slightly askew, however. I have concerns in a number of areas, including with regard to the number of people who have left Cork and the west, and Senator Coffey spoke about Waterford being part of Tipperary South....

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will be brief. Given all the clamour regarding politicians' expenses in the newspapers every day, I would like to tell the Minister for Finance and other members of the Government that no Member of this House or the other House are pariahs. We are being branded in the media almost as criminals. Some of us, who have no income other than what we receive as Deputies and Senators, are...