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Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on unemployment. I am upset this morning because people in Cork are losing their jobs. We are getting smirks across the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: People are struggling to pay their mortgages. Some are paying their mortgages with credit cards and the houses of others are being repossessed. There are people with no hope. It is the job of Government to govern and it is my job to represent the people who elected me to this House and I will do that without fear or favour. I expect Government to govern. We on this side of the House have...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We have offered more than that and the Government has never taken it up.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Like Senator Harris, I come here with a non-legal mind. However, I come with a sense of justice and a sense that we need to put things back on the right track. I welcome the Bill, the backdrop to which is the increase in crime. I welcome the comments of Senator Harris that we should examine our entire criminal justice system; let us do so not from the perspective of the legal mind but from...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Healy Eames in urging the Leader to continue our debate on the Ryan report before the summer recess. As Senator O'Toole said, it is not good enough to park the debate now that the report has been published, and for the President, Mary McAleese, to make an apology and meet with the victims as she did last weekend. As the Second House of the Oireachtas we need to keep this...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Did he sit in your seat?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: They missed the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader missed his opportunity.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That would be some combination.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information regarding the business outlined by the Leader, is it proposed to take all Stages of that Bill on Thursday and what is the schedule for Friday, 10 July? I thought it was agreed not to take all Stages of a Bill on one day.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information, is the House sitting on Friday, 10 July?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Remember what the Government did in 1987-89.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Hanafin was not referring to the facts.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: We are getting the same old spin from him every day.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It has not.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Private Members' business next week?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join with other Senators in asking the Deputy Leader to facilitate a debate on the IMF report, which is far from an endorsement of the Government. It states that the economy will contract by approximately 13.5% from 2008 until next year, with unemployment reaching 15.5% and bank losses having the potential to rise to €35 billion. Senator Coffey is right and I ask the Deputy Leader to...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy Leader should read-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: He is lecturing us.