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Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We have not seen it yet.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that wrong?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Secretary hours? Caretaker hours?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator could be prosecuted for his lack of understanding of this issue.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Ross for sharing time with me. I am disappointed that the Minister has gone, because he is effectively putting a freeze on educational spending and he has given us the advance notice tonight. It can be dressed up in any way, but cutbacks are here. The Fianna Fáil election promise on reducing class sizes, on its commitment to special needs, ICT and the schools building...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What happened to the people in Cork South Central, to the people of Ballygarvan and the Star of the Sea school in Passage who were waiting for a new school? We have heard the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, trotting out promise after promise and the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, now doing the same. The former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence. There have been five Ministers for Education and Science since Ballygarvan was promised a school. What are we to tell the parents, the pupils and the teachers tonight? Is it that they will be cut back or that the Government will look after them? The choice and the solution is in the Minister's hands.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senators on the Government side are balanced.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We bailed them out again.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is she joining him already?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I second Senator Frances Fitzgerald's proposal to amend the Order of Business. Will the Leader clarify whether the Minister for Finance and the Government will postpone the budget next week, given that we do not have the legislation before the House this week? Will the Leader clarify there will not be a change of plan regarding the budget? As others Senators have said, it is difficult to...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Former Senator Jim Higgins and Deputy Howlin acted very courageously. It poses a pertinent question for all public representatives as to what we do when we are given information. Where do we go to? They went to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. What do we do? To whom do we talk? They put the country first and, as Senator Norris said, they had no power to investigate....

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Hunger Task Force Report: Statements (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Hunger Task Force Report: Statements (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus déanaim comhghairdeas lena gcomhairleoirí ar fhoilsiúcháin na tuarascála. Senator Hanafin touched on a point which I was going to raise at the end of my speech but with which I will begin, namely, that we need to look at the issue of fair trade being properly resourced and funded and that the countries being neglected and being treated unfairly...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: He will want a Fianna Fáil channel next.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Does that include Fianna Fáil?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Are the big men onto the Senator?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: He cannot mention our party.