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Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Feeney.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Ní amadán é an Seanadóir. Tá sé an-ghlic ar fad.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator must not have been listening.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is about leadership.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: While it is tempting for people to vote against the Lisbon treaty to give the Government a well-deserved rap on the knuckles for its package of misinformation and broken promises, they should not do so. The Government has an obligation to look after the people of Ireland rather than misleading them. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates" television programme illustrated the Government's...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Leader throwing the boys in the chasm now?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Mullingar accord.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Deputy Mary O'Rourke?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They did not do it in the past ten years.

Seanad: Health Services (8 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Mary Hanafin, on her appointment as Minister for Social and Family Affairs. I wish her well in her tenure in office and hope she has a successful term there. I raise the issue of the incidence of asthma and the failure to develop a national asthma strategy. As the Minister will be aware, last Tuesday was World Asthma Day. Ireland has the fourth highest...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the new Government on its appointment, but I notice the truce is broken this morning with the decision of former Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to retire at the next general election. I wonder how long Senators Ciaran Cannon and Dan Boyle will stay in their positions on the Government side of the House, because we need an urgent debate on the role of Government. We have...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I am asking for a debate on the issue of aviation. We have had no Minister in this House since the U-turn by the Government on the matter of Cork Airport's debt. It is important we have a debate on airport policy. Can we also have a debate on the role of RTE, given that it has asked for a licence fee increase and there is no real reason for such an increase?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: As the Minister of State is aware, Ballygarvan national school is in a growing area of County Cork. Its present school is grossly inadequate, and it is unfair on the students, parents and teachers who have to endure a legacy and litany of broken promises, false dawns and new beginnings. We have heard the usual story a number of times. I am disappointed that the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and I am conscious that it is not his Department. The site was identified a long time ago. We need information on when the site can be acquired and the process can begin. I appeal to the Minister of State, Deputy Smith to bring it back to the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, that we need to put deadlines and times in place.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish Deputy Smith well today.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: No direction.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is good for us all that such a fate did not befall Senator Hannigan.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator still incarcerated? He is behaving that way.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator still in Government? What about the people across from him?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We cannot have it in Cork, a Chathaoirligh.