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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I will be brief. Given all the clamour regarding politicians' expenses in the newspapers every day, I would like to tell the Minister for Finance and other members of the Government that no Member of this House or the other House are pariahs. We are being branded in the media almost as criminals. Some of us, who have no income other than what we receive as Deputies and Senators, are...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is relevant to the section. If a Minister has 12 officials working for him or her, and Deputies and Senators have nobody, it is very hard to compete.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am on section 4. I am curious with regard to Senator Ellis's remarks on legality and constitutionality and I look forward to the Minister of State's response. We have missed an opportunity to create new boundaries in the city and county of Cork, which would have been exciting and innovative and would have moved away from the old Cork South-Central and Cork North-Central division. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Whose questions has he answered?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am intrigued by Senator Callely's talking about mud-slinging.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I am building up to the question and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to contribute. I wish to raise a fundamental question. Does the Leader agree that the people have lost trust in the Government and are angry at the lack of leadership? I ask the Leader to bring the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, not to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party room, but to this House because...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader should show leadership by coming in here and demanding it stops rather than going out on the plinth or on local radio stations and talking out of both sides of his mouth, which he is good at doing.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a golden circle running this country and the Members on the other side may shout in here all they want, but the people have seen through them, and it is about time they did.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a final question. I have not spoke on the Order of Business for five days and I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in. May we have a debate with the Minister for Health and Children on the appalling accident and emergency waiting times. This morning's Irish Examiner revealed that on average 43 patients had to wait more than 12 hours every day in 2008. The Minister for Health...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: That is called revisionism.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: She will be hard pressed.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: It is; you are right.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: One can run but one cannot hide.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The regulator should reply.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share time with Senator Fidelma Healy Eames. The decision by the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to destroy the futures of hundreds of the most vulnerable children in the country and the toil and effort of parents, teachers and psychologists flies in the face of logic and reason. I do not for one moment argue against the need for savings in education....

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I appreciate that this does not fall within the remit of the Minister of State's Department but I would like him to convey a message to the Minister for Education and Science. The Minister's reply is shameful because it takes no cognisance of the motion and the question it contained. Will the Minister for Education and Science give a commitment...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister has not answered that question. He has skirted around it. He came into the House last Wednesday——