Results 23,881-23,900 of 24,347 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should read the report.
- Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should not be patronising. That is a typical remark and he is wrong.
- Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Noel Ahern, to the House. While I did not intend to have a slagging match with Senator Boyle, he continually trots out the line that newer Members of the House do not understand economics. This is not the case. The figures produced by my party show that the Exchequer balance of â¬2.3 billion in 2006 has become a deficit....
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I second Senator Fitzgerald's amendment. With regard to the debate on the Seanad, I ask the Leader to facilitate a debate on how Ireland celebrates St. Patrick's Day. At a time when alcohol use has become more prevalent and the perception of the Irish abroad is of an alcohol consuming society, given that the Government has extended St. Patrick's Day to a festival it is important that we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Feeney cannot ride both horses. She cannot go out to the constituencies and be against it, she is either for it or against it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: She should vote accordingly on the Order of Business and stop the hypocrisy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The dispute with the IPU concerns the ordinary people of Ireland, who the Senators opposite purport to represent. They should vote accordingly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has kissed one of them anyway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I seek an urgent debate on prisons in light of the report in The Irish Times yesterday which shows levels of drug use in prisons are high. Inmates tested positive for drug use approximately 40,000 times during the past three years. This is a damning indictment of Government policy since 2006. We have seen no reduction in drug consumption in prisons despite promises from successive...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: He caused it from 1977 to 1979 and from 1979 to 1981.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: They nearly bankrupted the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Time after time they have talked out of both sides of their mouths.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Waste Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hoctor, and wish the Minister, Deputy Gormley, a speedy recovery. Given that it is St. Valentine's Day, I will not heckle Senator Boyle and will be amorous in my remarks to him. I welcome his continuing opposition to the location of an incinerator in Ringaskiddy and share his concerns. At the beginning of his speech, Senator Boyle asked why so much...
- Seanad: National Waste Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: I know. There is no facility in this Chamber for the use of laptops or other technologies but there ought to be if we are serious about being an e-nation, so to speak, and using modern technology. I hope the Seanad can lead the way by reducing the volume of paper it uses by using laptops in the Chamber to call up Order Papers during the Order of Business, etc. As Senator Norris said, we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the Senator doing now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the Senator doing now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: One cannot have it both ways.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Senator supporting the amendment?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)
Jerry Buttimer: They did not.