Results 23,341-23,360 of 24,447 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator MacSharry should not lecture us.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is no bother. We are going nowhere.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: A good job was done last Tuesday.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the taxpayer?
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He claims he did not.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister said Fine Gael did not want the support of developers, builders and bank staff. We have their support. One of our core values is the reward of enterprise. There is merit in the amendment. I support the notion that a job should be done well and I am sickened by the attitude that it does not matter. I have received ten telephone calls today from people concerned about others...
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Under section 2(2), does the Minister intend to report to the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service or set up a separate banking sub-committee? This Bill gives the Minister major powers so there needs to be ministerial accountability.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We do not know that.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I deliberately avoided getting involved in this debate but Senator Walsh's contribution and the Leader's proposal are fast eroding the consensus on this side of the House which has behaved impeccably over the past 48 hours. It is time we received leadership on this issue from the Government side of the House because the problem is very simple. No information has been forthcoming and no...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not the point.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Feeney is playing politics now.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It was reactionary.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Carry on.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What about President Mary White?
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Mind the chocolates.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government said it.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator came to the Order of Business every day she would not be saying that.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister had no choice but to act and I commend him for so doing. He had no choice because this crisis is of our making. I advise him to speak with and listen to Joe Duffy because, without him, we would not have had the guarantee raised. He was not the person who caused a run on the banks. The crisis has been caused by three groupsââ
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: ââthe banks, the Government and the big developers, those who Senator Feeney and her ilk have supported at the Galway Races for many years.