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Seanad: Elections of June 2009: Statements (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Daly is afraid to speak to his party's councillors because he will have to explain why so many of their colleagues have lost their seats.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I compliment the victims who marched outside the gates of Leinster House. Their dignified protest was very moving and left many of us full of anger and sadness at what it has transpired happened to them. I join Senator Mary White in praising the report of the Sub-Committee on the High Level of Suicide in Ireland. It is extraordinary. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should not be political.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Who took special needs assistants out of schools?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Who introduced the pension and income levies?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is playing to the gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to raise the issue of Foinse and welcome Senator Ó Murchú's announcement that a meeting is to be held today. It is important that the newspaper should continue. While the Minister comes into this House to pontificate about what he does for the Irish language, it would be a travesty were a newspaper that is required as a source of education and information to be lost. I echo Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Where was the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach? They were inside the tent for long enough with them.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader has some cheek.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I second Senator Norris's timely amendment to the Order of Business. Let us have a debate on the whole ambit of Government policy. Our credit rating has been downgraded, despite the Minister hawking himself around Europe. Citizens are facing further prospects of unemployment. Some 400,000 people are unemployed. Senator Healy Eames is correct that an increasing number of people-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I know you are embarrassed and upset, Senator Feeney-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not blame you because I would be ashamed to vote for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: -----Fianna Fáil also.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am doing that, but I am being provoked.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Surely the clock is stopped. Senator Feeney referred to patriotism. Does the Leader believe it is patriotic that we cannot have a Christmas bonus for the elderly and those on social welfare and that the cervical cancer programme cannot be rolled out?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: May we have a debate on the report issued today by the HSE on the reconfiguration of hospital services in Cork and Kerry? The report is worthy of debate because it downgrades many of the hospitals in Cork and Kerry, on which we need to have a proper debate. I congratulate Alan Kelly on his fine achievement on being elected to the European Parliament in the constituency of Ireland South....