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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator went back to a council chamber, she might learn something.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: You should not patronise us.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I will.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is broken now.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is living in an Alice in Wonderland world.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's own crowd.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What did Fianna Fáil promise? The Senator is spinning.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to clarify a point of misinformation given this morning. When the rainbow coalition left office, there was a surplus, not a deficit. That fact must be clarified.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: In the interests of accuracy and honesty that must be put on the record of the House. There was a surplus. Will the Leader apologise to the people this morning because the Government he represents has taxed the elderly? Is the Leader listening to me? Will he apologise for the cutbacks imposed on the ordinary person who must now bail out the Leader and his Government? That is the legacy of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ——from the Fianna Fáil party which has now killed the Celtic tiger. As a matter of urgency can we have an debate on the cost of living in this country? This Government has had its Ernest Blythe moment. It has taxed people and made the cost of living in this country unbearable for people. It should be ashamed. I have a question for the Deputy Leader of the House. We have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We have been promised in three successive budgets that the Cork docklands would receive tax incentives regarding the eastern gateway bridge. I welcome that the Minister, under pressure, included surveys of the site which cost the Government nothing.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: There is no tax and no outlay for the Government in this. Therefore, can we have a debate——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ——on the Cork docklands and the failure of the Government yet again to commit in the budget to the eastern gateway bridge funding, a key piece of infrastructural development.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope he is right.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tá mé ag lorg díospóireacht ón gCeannaire mar gheall ar na giorraithe atá ag cur isteach ar na daoine, go mórmhór sa Roinn Sláinte agus Leanaí. The Minister for Health and Children has once again abdicated responsibility in her provision of care to the people. I am calling on the Leader to facilitate a debate on the health cutbacks that have affected...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the Senator's Government that is penalising ordinary people with child care costs. The Senator has continually given supported the Government on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We know that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government has not been doing that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.