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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: If it is on silent mode, it still comes on.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will Senator Ellis come with me to Cork?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That was not socialism.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I asked about the Seanad by-elections.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Mary O'Rourke is very happy with Senator Cassidy.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join with Senator O'Toole and Senator Boyle in asking the Leader for a debate on lobbying. If we have learned anything it is that the golden circle that pertained in Irish society can no longer rule and can no longer have access to power. The lobbying that went on in the Galway tent must be a practice from a bygone era that can never be allowed to happen here again. I call on the Leader,...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In the interests of the body politic I ask the Leader to revisit the question of the Seanad by-elections. I ask him, in an ecumenical gesture, to offer one of the places to a non-party candidate or to a member from the North and let this House be what it is, namely, a House representative of a wider section of Irish society.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking the Leader, who professes to have the ear of the Taoiseach, to go to the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who proposes to be in favour of Seanad reform and have a different style of politics-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and ask them to hold the three by-elections on the one day and to put forward a non-party candidate who will have a non-Government vote in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it to prescribe medication for him?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Leader arrange a pre-budget debate on social welfare and child benefit in particular? Does the Leader agree with the leader of Fine Gael that the Minister for Social and Family Affairs should not touch child benefit? A cut in child benefit is an attack on the women and children of this country. Does the Leader support that? I also seek a debate on yesterday's pledge by the Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Leader facilitate a debate as a matter of urgency on social welfare in light of comments by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Hanafin, on television this week because there is a growing divide in society and it is being accentuated? I remind the leaders and members of the Government that cuts to social welfare hurt the old, the poor and the handicapped more than any...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the Leader have a date for completion?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the Leader have a date for completion?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Give the Senator the date of opening of the buildings.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should give him the dates. He is only spoofing.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That is coming. The people will decide that, Minister.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That would be in keeping with Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister has said the banks are best placed to make commercial decisions to allow credit. They may very well be, but they are not allowing credit to flow and therein lies the crux of the problem. They consider that their best friends are their investors and shareholders but to hell with borrowers such as small businesses or homeowners. That is not right. I am not an economist, but I...