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Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is all about the elections.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Coghlan. This budget is the greatest sham job in Irish political history and it will indict the Members opposite for all time. CORI states the "budget lacks vision as banks escape and children are targeted". It concludes its analysis of the budget by stating: Ireland is at a crossroads. It is facing a wide range of challenges. The roots of the current economic crisis lie...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that a new policy?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The facts are there Senator Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I join with other Senators who have raised the issue of the HSE debate on euthanasia and hope we send a message that we are pro-life. However, I disagree with Senator Walsh. I am in favour of freedom of speech and I respect a person's right to have an opinion. Part of the reason we are having this debate is because of the refusal of Government to legislate on stem cell research and...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The debate today in Cork University Hospital on the right to life and the preservation and protection of the right to life, is one we should have in this House and I hope we can have a debate soon. Given the creation of the new national assets management agency and the abridged report of Dr. Peter Bacon, I ask the Leader to ask the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to invite Dr. Bacon to...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us have a detailed debate and questions and answers——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: If we want this House to be relevant, then we should use this issue as a vehicle to make it relevant. The Leader would do us and the people a service by having this debate after the Easter recess.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: How does the Senator define leadership?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a woman of action.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Ye are on the way out.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader forgot the altar boys and the sacristans.

Seanad: Hospital Services (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this important matter of the transfer of the breast cancer treatment unit from the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital to Cork University Hospital. This is my second time to raise this matter on the Adjournment. If we support the principles of the national cancer strategy, the breast care unit of the South Infirmary Victoria...

Seanad: Hospital Services (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister spoke about the relocation of services to create a critical mass of specialists of all disciplines. That is already there, in a single geographical site. The Minister also referred to the eight so-called designated centres of excellence. Not all of them have radiation oncology or pathology services. I cannot understand the logic of this transfer when BreastCheck was built on...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is extraordinary that this Government has the cheek to tax Christmas and the elderly. Senators on the Government side can forget about Ernest Blythe because what they are supporting is an attack on whatever definition Senator Boyle wants to give to middle income or low income earners. The Government has savaged the ordinary, plain decent person in Ireland. Shame on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Where is the plan in the budget for job creation, job retention and job protection? Where is it? The Leader should tell us. I want to see it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have read it. I have it here. I cannot see it anywhere. There is nothing in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: You have abandoned the people who ran to you in the last week of the last election campaign. You have sacrificed political capital in that election and you have got it now.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: You come in here every day and you pontificate, rant and rave. You have abandoned fairness.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Unfortunately, Senator Boyle has left the Chamber.