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

Jerry Buttimer: I realise Senator Daly is embarrassed by his own Government. I appreciate that.

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

Jerry Buttimer: The facts are-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: I am not being political in my contribution but the reality is-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: The reality is that as a consequence of what the Government has done, programmes on HIV, famine relief, education and gender equality will be adversely affected. I agree with Senator Daly that we should create good governance and put in place new practices where people can be empowered and learn, but monitoring programmes and empowerment education require financial resources. We heard...

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

Jerry Buttimer: How does the Minister square the comments made-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: I know it did not. I did not say the OECD criticised it, but I ask how the Minister sees the drain on personnel having an impact. The OECD report said we need to be an advocate for trade, agriculture, development, getting private sector initiatives going and gender equality across the world - Senator Daly alluded to this. We will not meet our aid target, however one looks at it. What are...

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

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Daly is embarrassed and I do not blame him. If I were in his position I, too, would be embarrassed.

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.