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- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I hope the new Dáil and Seanad will bring that to a resolution. Emigration, pay cuts and unemployment mean people feel desperate now. The universal social charge must be examined again. It is crippling the ordinary citizen, an gnáth dhuine, whether he or she lives in Ballyphehane, Bishopstown, on the Rochestown Road or in Carrigaline. They are suffering. They did not make a fortune...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: It is apt that the Senator is quoting from the Bible because the truth will set the people free.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader whether he agrees that the Finance Bill reflects the Fianna Fáil Government's legacy of gargantuan tax increases, huge unemployment, thousands of people emigrating and a failed political regime? The party may change its leader or the face on its posters, but it cannot change the policies that have ruined the country and the people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government stands indicted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I seek a debate-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I would be embarrassed by the Senator's record in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to facilitate a debate on political appointments to boards in the interregnum before the general election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes, I will.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: This is an important question. Given that the new leader of Fianna Fáil speaks about bringing to an end cronyism and the appointing of pals, I ask the Leader to examine Deputy Martin's record of appointing friends, cronies and Fianna Fáil supporters to State boards and organisations under his watch.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Martin appointed his friends, cronies and Fianna Fáil people to boards.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a fact.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I can prove it to the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Martin-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: -----appointed friends of Fianna Fáil-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: -----and his friends to State boards.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: That is a fact, not a charge.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Will I name the people in question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Martin appointed friends, cronies and Fianna Fáil members to boards.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: He is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Why did he not practice what he preached as a Minister?