Results 23,721-23,740 of 24,447 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I support the contributions made by Senators Fitzgerald, Norris and Boyle on Burma. The television pictures and the radio reports are distressing. Those of us in the western world have let the people of Burma down badly in the past 18 months. It behoves the Government, at European Council of Ministers level, to intervene on behalf of them to get emergency aid to the area as a matter of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I am on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: We need a debate on the programme for Government, which is a failed document. Senator Boyle has left the Chamber. The Green Party is now smug in Government but the mudguard is falling off the bike. There is no co-ordination, for example, on balanced regional development. The second city of this country is losing out badly. I seek an urgent debate on the programme for Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I support Senator O'Donovan's call for a debate on community life. Community life in the ten years of the Celtic tiger boom has been altered by this Government. We need an urgent debate on community life, not just in rural Ireland but across the country. People deserve leadership which they have not been getting. We need an urgent debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: While I accept the Cathaoirleach's advice about awards, it is important that we join Senator Leyden in congratulating Senator Regan on the illustrious award he received last night. In the context of this morning's Irish Examiner report about personal medical files, I ask the Deputy Leader to arrange an urgent debate on data protection and accountability of the HSE and the former southern...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: And damning of the Government's record.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it a case of a lot done, more to do?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He did not do that in the past three years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a pity he did notââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He has; the Senator is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should tell his Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a pity the Senator is not in Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden got into the Council of Europe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The back pages of the Sunday Independent will be the same.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Keaveney is showing her age.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He is moving up the ladder.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He is like Senator Leyden.