Results 23,561-23,580 of 24,571 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I am a school teacher. Senator Butler should tell me where the Government has improved in regard to teachers.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It has not.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government will be cutting services tomorrow.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The last of the summer wine.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the cost of living now?
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should desist. This is a joke.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Fine Gael handed over an economy in perfect order.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should go back to Jack Lynch's Government, or to that of Mr. Haughey. He should consider the examples of 1977 or 1981.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I have the facts about who wrecked the country's economy.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Butler is highly selective.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The present Government squandered a surplus of â¬2 billion.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is like the last of the summer wine.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to share time with Senator Paddy Burke.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister to the House and the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Intoxicating Liquor Bill. The Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, stated this morning that there is a broad acceptance that legislative reforms are needed to tackle public disorder and alcohol-related harm resulting from excessive alcohol consumption. The Minister of State is correct in that...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We can go together, no bother.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We could go to Reynard's tonight or Rearden's in Cork next Saturday. It does not make sense that at the close of business in Cork, Dublin or anywhere in the country, everybody piles out to a central point. I fail to see why we cannot have staggered closing times. I was in Barcelona recently and the establishments did not close until 5 a.m. There were no public order issues and nobody was...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: ââto see what happens. The Washington Street village concept, as promoted by Paul Montgomery and the people in Cork city, is of responsible nightclub owners who take their job seriously and manage it properly. I welcome the reprieve for early morning houses. In Cork we have two very well run establishments and neither they nor their patrons cause trouble. I am glad the Minister rolled...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Never.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not the Green Party way.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.