Results 23,481-23,500 of 24,340 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator cannot ride the bike and also be in charge.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should read the scripts of his colleagues in the other House over the past five years. The Senator's party is in Government. He cannot have it both ways.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator will have to go and do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: How does one follow that? One is either in Government or one is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Glynn should ask his Green Party colleagues.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I join other Senators in asking the Leader to arrange a debate on the economy as a matter of urgency. He has been living in denial for the past 12 months. Inflation has increased to 4.7%, VAT on retail sales is down by 8% and, as Senator Coghlan rightly noted, consumers are suffering. These consumers are the people of Ireland, the men and women who go about their daily business, but they...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Thanks to the Government of which they are part, 200,000 people are unemployed today. The ordinary decent people are facing the cut backs in health and education which the Minister for Health and Children promised this House would not be made. I welcome the commission's report on constituency boundaries but, unlike Senator de Búrca, I have a fundamental difficulty with the way it proceeded...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Coghlan in seeking a debate on that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We have a new coalition now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a new rainbow.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is good at balance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is turning it around now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader's party made a mess of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Gerrymandering.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It will be all right.
- Seanad: Cork School of Music (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Power, to the House. His endurance has been tested today. I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this matter on behalf not just of the students, parents and teachers of the Cork School of Music but of the people of Cork. Cutbacks affect people and in this case it is young people, be they boys and girls at primary level or second level,...
- Seanad: Cork School of Music (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister for his reply and appreciate this is not his brief. However, three quarters of his reply was irrelevant to the matter I raised. There will be a reduction in the number of part-time students. I impress upon him the need to ask the Minister for Education and Science how the Cork School of Music can continue to provide the full range of music tuition given that there will...
- Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Motion (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I am quite simple in my approach and we must eradicate drugs from our society. To do this requires political leadership, more resources for the Garda for enforcement, better use of the courts and help for young people through education. The advertising campaign on the issue this spring was ineffective. We must learn from the mistakes that have been made and go forward. I hope the Minister...
- Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Motion (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is the reason for our amendment.
- Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Motion (18 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is Senator O'Malley saying the rest of us are unreasonable?