Results 23,581-23,600 of 24,447 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not black and white.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: They need supports too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government has been standing still for too long.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should talk to his Government colleagues.
- 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 cannot have it both ways.
- 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.