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Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They did not get much help from Senators on that side of the House.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has a misguided opinion. He needs help.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: And the most expensive.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, to the House. While I mean nothing against the Minister of State, who is a nice gentleman, we have yet to have the Minister for Education and Science in the Chamber for an Adjournment debate. It is unfair on a Minister of State from a different Department to answer on the Adjournment. I thank the Cathaoirleach——

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand that. However, it is disingenuous of the Minister not to come to the House and to have had no Minister of State from her Department present for any Adjournment debate matter I have raised on education. This is a serious matter I am raising on behalf of the people of Passage West. I want to read into the record of the House an e-mail I received from a student of the school,...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, for the reply. I accept it is not his Department nor his brief. In fairness to him, he has the unenviable job of giving the reply in the House, but it does not tell us when, where or how the school will be progressed. I urge the Minister of State to impress on the Department of Education and Science that we need information urgently. The...

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister reminds me of St. Paul riding his horse into Damascus, except she has not yet fallen off her horse or been politically converted. Why is she being confrontational on an issue on which there was scope for agreement and compromise? She and her Government colleagues have instilled fear in ordinary people. I use the Northgate pharmacy in Cork city, a simple operation run by a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I call for a debate on the Private Residential Tenancies Board in light of the fact that it has changed premises and no longer has a public office. Given that many of us live in highly residential areas where properties are rented, it would be appropriate to have a debate on that matter. I attended a function in Cork the aim of which was to highlight prostate cancer. It is estimated that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about Tom Parlon?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They may seem minor to Senator Harris.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us hear the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's own newspaper is doing it. His own newspaper is good at doing that — chasing circulation. Is the Senator going to attack it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That is preposterous. The Senator should withdraw that remark now. That remark is unbecoming of him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That remark is unfair. I ask the Senator to withdraw it. He is casting an aspersion on members of my party at local level and should withdraw that remark.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The remark is unfair and untrue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is an untrue remark and it should be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Harris in congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his impartiality in the Chair. I welcome and note the metanoia of the director general of RTE, Cathal Goan, and Mr. Mulholland yesterday on their conversion to the need for impartiality, independence and balance. The article in this morning's edition of The Irish Times gives Senator Harris his answer. A serious debate on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister with responsibility for community affairs has not been invited to the House since we resumed this session. This morning we have read and heard in this Chamber of the breakdown of Irish society. Those of us involved in community life, schools and sport know there is a need for a debate on the pressures exerted on young families forced to spend an inordinate amount of time stuck...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It is coming from next to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Cathaoirleach certainly would know.