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Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: No interruptions.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is not like that.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Mooney should hear the Government's spin line.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Look at the numbers unemployed. Look at the banks. Look at the unfinished estates.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil has taxed them out of existence.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I have all the graphs Senator Mooney needs.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I feel like crying having listened to Senator Mooney. The reality is that the rottenness of the loan books of the banks illustrates the poor regulation aided by poor Government policy. If there are green shoots of recovery and everything is turning around, the Minister of State gave no examples in his speech, which I read. I join other Senators in saying that it is a bit disingenuous of...

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: This is the type of cosy cartel that has us where we are today. Perhaps there are people in Fianna Fáil who are embarrassed by the link between some bankers and members of the Government during the past 13 years. They should be. The failed policy has brought us to where we are. People discuss stopping the blame game, but that game must be out there if we are to learn how to move forward....

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Where is Dan?

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Is Senator Boyle muzzled?

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Yesterday on the Order of Business the Leader advised me to stop and to listen and I did.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: What I discovered was the Taoiseach saw nothing, heard nothing and did nothing. What happened in the Fianna Fáil tent at the Galway races where we have discovered that among some of the recognisable revellers in the tent was Mr. Michael Fingleton of the Irish Nationwide Building Society?

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Was Mr. Fingleton like a guest at a banquet? Was he asked any questions about the role of Irish Nationwide? Senator Harris rightly speaks about people being asleep on duty.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: How can the Government justify a man being paid €55,000 by four times in his last sequence of employment and yet he will not give back the money to the State? Were the public interest directors called in by the Minister for Finance, and if not, why not? They are there on our behalf. We and the ordinary people are bailing out the banks, yet we get spin from Fianna Fáil and the Green...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He will not withdraw it because he has privilege. He is a mouse.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: We know the reason. The Government allowed it to happen.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the legacy of Deputy Bertie Ahern.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I will repeat it for the Senator. It is the legacy of Deputy Bertie Ahern.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I heard him speak on "Morning Ireland".