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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is aspirational.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is called a lack of appreciation, a lack of understanding and no protection of the vulnerable, the blind and the handicapped. The Government then takes the poorest paid worker and stands on him and allows its friends at the tent in Galway to go scot free.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government allowed them to go scot free. All the Government wants is to get on the horse and ride off with him.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: This budget is a penal tax on the ordinary decent person. I challenge any of us to live on €196 per week.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is fine for those in Government who have a State car, a driver or two and a group of advisers. They are living detached from reality. Would we live on €196 a week? This budget is an attack on the decent people. It should be thrown out. The measure before us is an unfair penalty on people who deserve better from their leaders.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join other speakers in demanding that the Minister for Transport come before the House. To clarify the matter for Senator Ormonde, the Minister has made a statement. His decision to defer the opening of the stretch of road in question must be addressed because it constitutes naked political interference in the work of the National Roads Authority. As Senator Cummins said, when one seeks...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Boyle is right, it is inept and it should not happen. A €300 million road is stopped because the friends of Fianna Fáil came running and asked for help.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I sympathise with the traders because the policies of Fianna Fáil brought them into the mess they are in. The Government should not ask the Irish people to bail out the friends of Fianna Fáil because this is the recurring nightmare. Fianna Fáil bails out its friends again.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is not nasty at all. The facts are before us and Government Members are embarrassed. They are running for cover the whole time.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: When will the Minister come to the House? When will we see an end to Fianna Fáil's patronage?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: A general election.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator O'Toole would be a good candidate.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am running for Cork.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On the new rates, I appeal to the Members on the Government side who are about to vote the Bill into law. The Minister, her Fianna Fail colleagues and particularly Green Party Members who came here with such reforming zeal two and a half years ago took office with a programme for Government that promised all things to all people.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not need lessons in etiquette from the Leader of the House.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am entitled to speak in the House and do not need lectures from the Leader.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand the embarrassment on the other side of the House because of what they are about to do.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I know what they are going to do.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will, but the Leader is embarrassed. The Bill is an attack on the decent people of Ireland. Schedule 1 reduces the money going into the homes of those who have not contributed to the economic decline of the country, yet the friends of the Leader and Fianna Fáil are masquerading and have the guise of someone who is getting away with it. They have perpetrated a crime on the people and...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a message for those opposite. The people will not forget them. They are going to wait for them and will pass judgment on a Government-----