Results 24,081-24,100 of 24,447 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The real Minister for child care.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a pity the Government does not do that. It is not in the budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Who is going to inspect the schools?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Schools should not be blamed for the Government's inadequacy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The schools should not be blamed for the Government's mess.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should not blame the schools.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: It is another stealth tax and Senator Walsh knows it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The pot is bubbling.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Fitzgerald in asking the Leader for an urgent debate on the mental health sector. The strategy document, A Vision for Change, was launched amid much fanfare but we have seen no matching commitment by the Government to implement change. We have had debates in this House on health and education. On both occasions, the relevant Ministers were, to say the least, making it up as...
- Seanad: Integration Policy: Statements (Resumed) (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Donohoe for sharing time. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Pat Carey. We live in a multicultural society. Those of us who live in Cork would never have thought we would come to live in an Ireland in which we would be obliged to embrace different cultures, languages and nationalities. We should take...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Who gave what to whom? Give us the answer to that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: Did they have spiced beef from Cork?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: We are well used to that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: In light of comments by Senator Corrigan yesterday and the comments of an eminent person working in the disability sector, Ms Deirdre Carroll of Inclusion Ireland this morning, I ask the Leader to invite the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Devins, for a debate on the inspection of residential homes for vulnerable children with disabilities. It is startling...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The truth always hurts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: The Government has not even finished part 1.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on bullying and civility. I do so in the context of a coroner's report yesterday on the death of a young girl in County Cork. The debate should focus on the manner in which those who are bullied are categorised and treated by society. The House should acknowledge the grief of a family and that it has been aggrieved by the coroner's verdict yesterday. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
Jerry Buttimer: It is called a U-turn. What about stamp duty?