Results 19,461-19,480 of 24,361 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I want to make the point that-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The important point I want to make, and as I keep saying to people, and I remind Members and those watching and listening to the debate, is that if people buy a car or television, they do not return to the salesperson who sold them a ramshackle, banjaxed vehicle or product in the first place. Rather, they stay with the people who brought our country back to full employment-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I am about to make the point, if the Acting Chairmen would let me, that-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The point I want to make on the Finance Bill is that developing and maintaining a skilled technological workforce is a major priority for Ireland. Last Friday, I happened to be at an event and was fortunate to be able to substitute for the Tánaiste-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: It was in Cork North-Central. My point is about research and development. It is through connectivity between business and foreign direct investment, FDI, that we can have innovative solutions to the challenges we face, for example, in food issues, which we found with NutRI last Friday in Cork Institute of Technology. It is important in the context of this Finance Bill, given that we have...
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will conclude on this, because it is an important point that will affect every citizen. The chief executive-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----or rather the director general of RTÉ made a good point today in terms of the cost of RTÉ being 44 cent per day compared with what we are getting from services like Netflix, Sky or whatever. In the context of the point Senator McDowell made, I made the point in the House last Thursday, and I ask to be let make this point without interruption, because it is an important one,...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: No, it will not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Maidin amárach ar 10.30.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn at 3.30 p.m. if not previously concluded; No. 2, Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 - Report Stage [amendments from Dáil Éireann] and Final Stage, to be taken at 3.30 p.m. and to conclude at 4 p.m.; No. 3, Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 -...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: No. 4, Private Members' business, Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017 - all Stages, to be taken at the conclusion of No. 3 and, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, to conclude after two hours. I welcome the sixth class pupils from Belgrove primary school in Clontarf. They are very welcome visitors to the House. They have made a very positive impression on many of us this morning.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: He used the guillotine as well.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: So has Senator Bacik.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a good man in the herd himself.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator was a good man at it. That was part of the Progressive Democrats manifesto.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator did.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator did.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear. Well said.