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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?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: He will change his mind again.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: It is true.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is cranky today.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil did a good job in that regard over many years.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's colleagues did that enough times.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There is some hypocrisy.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: There is some hypocrisy over there.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: If it has not already been seconded, I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Fitzgerald to have a debate on banking. I hear the cacophony of sound from Members opposite regarding the public sector, which is being demonised by Government and treated badly. We must respect and cherish our workers. It is about time that Government engaged meaningfully with social...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I seconded Senator Fitzgerald's proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise. I did not realise that.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I thought we had no responsibility for RTE.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: I seek a debate and action as a matter of urgency regarding the practice of upward only rent reviews, which has crept in. This practice is threatening jobs in Wilton shopping centre in my city of Cork and, as Senator Mooney said, many sole traders are struggling and there are major issues regarding their survival. This practice is bad and legislation needs to be amended or enacted to bring...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and in his contribution.