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Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Are you happy to see those jobs lost?

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand that and thank the Cathaoirleach. Is there any concern in the Government that we will lose 11,000 jobs?

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There are enough myths around the place without Senator Feeney adding to them.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that. Perhaps the Minister of State in his reply will address the fundamental issues that have been asked and I hope we will not get a typical response from the Department that fails to outline the reality. There is potential to endanger jobs and lose employment. The balance of trade, with €35 million in exports, could be affected along with the benefits that the industry...

Seanad: Health Services (9 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to place this motion before the House. I welcome the Minister of State and compliment his fortitude on this marathon day in the House. The motion before us is about the need for a national plan on rare diseases. I pay tribute to the Irish Platform for Patients' Organisations, Science and Industry, IPPOSI, which has done considerable work alongside...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator can read it on Twitter later on.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It was not premature at all. The Minister was afraid.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children to the House to discuss a national plan for rare diseases. Some 140,000 of our fellow citizens suffer from rare diseases and it is important for us to have a coherent national plan. I ask for that debate to be facilitated as soon as possible. In a rare moment of equality on this side of this House, I sympathise with Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am. I am asking for a debate-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on the role of the media and the way in which they cover politics. While much of Senator Boyle's plight was because of Facebook and Twitter, what happened last night on television was a very poor day for journalism. Whatever else about us as politicians, we work hard and represent the people. While we might have a different viewpoint regarding policies and...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a growing trend towards tabloid journalism which does not serve the people well.

Seanad: Fáilte Ireland Training Centres (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this issue and the Minister of State for being present. The future role of Fáilte Ireland training centres in the provision of training courses for persons who are unemployed in Cork, Dublin and Waterford is a source of major concern. Fáilte Ireland, with which the Minister of State will be familiar, runs skills training courses in the...

Seanad: Fáilte Ireland Training Centres (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that this issue does not involve the Minister of State's Department. I understand the Minister, Deputy Martin Cullen, is indisposed and I wish him well. I have two points which I hope the Minister of State will convey to him and his Department. The Minister of State said Fáilte Ireland had no explicit remit to train unemployed people. However, its brochure refers to...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Fitzgerald and others in asking for the Minister of State with responsibility for children and youth affairs to come to the House as a matter of urgency. It is extraordinary, given that the Government is supposedly concerned and holding a referendum on children's rights, that we have had a failure to protect children amid secrecy. When will the Minister publish the report...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking questions. Government is not about jobs for the boys and stepping in and stepping out.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is about showing leadership, creating jobs and having a vision to get Ireland back to work again. The only jobs in which Green Party Members are interested are their own jobs. When will we see the Government showing leadership regarding the job creation policy that has been lacking? I remind the Senators opposite——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: ——that more than 400,000 of our fellow citizens are out of work and all we get from the Green Party and Fianna Fáil is jobs for the boys and the girls, and cronyism.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: That needs to change.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Brolcháin will be promoted tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Brolcháin should read Twitter. Has he been refused a job?