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Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I fully support and second the Fine Gael amendment to the Government motion and I hope the Members of the House will support it.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Like other speakers, I call for a debate on NAMA. Like Senator Ross, I compliment the Minister on going on a tour of Europe and selling Ireland because it is the mess his Government got us into that he is now trying to rectify. I welcome the success of the bond issue because it is important to restore confidence in the market. I want the Leader to invite the Minister for Finance in here....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What is the status of the programme for Government now? What will it do about transport and about the roles of the different airports, for example, Cork versus Dublin? What will it do about agriculture and education? Senator Healy Eames mentioned children with special needs. Has the programme for Government been abandoned to the four winds? Is the Leader ashamed, like many of his...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: She needs to sack herself.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: When will he come in here?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We need the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Which one?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will it be the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, or the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Will he turn up?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader in his response to intimate when it is proposed the House will sit next week and for the rest of May. I also ask the Leader to facilitate as a matter of extreme urgency a debate on social partnership. As we are in the middle of a recession, social partnership is needed more than ever and I appeal to unions and employers not to be entrenched. Social partnership is needed...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have asked the questions. Our banks are in crisis, retail is in trouble, construction is dying a death, car sales have plummeted and, as can be seen if one walks around this city or Cork, shops are in trouble. RTE should not be blamed for the recession. Let us have a debate on RTE's role, but it should not be blamed for reporting on the recession because it did not cause it. George Lee...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise, but it is important to have realism. I am becoming tired of the Fianna Fáil mantra that we are causing ourselves to be in a recession. That is not the case. Government policy has got us into this position and those who will get us out of it are not the present Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Why have seven recommendations been blacked out from the Monageer report? What does that state about Members' role in society regarding the protection of young children? Does the blacking out of 37 pages mean that next December, the Government will black out the pages of the budget that it does not wish Members to read? Is that what will happen next? I hope not because this issue pertains...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The current Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, will be gone by then.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, Senator Healy Eames raised an issue that was relevant to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Yesterday, Senator Healy Eames's character was impugned.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a question for the Leader. How, therefore, can that be-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: In fairness to Senator Healy Eames the accusation----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: An accusation has been made against Senator Healy Eames. What is her right of reply?