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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes. We have issues and in the overall hierarchy, the NTA is responsible.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not know if you should be saying that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: We expect greater things.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Vice-Chair explain that?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the students from Christ the King and, in particular, the teachers here. Ms O'Leary is the co-ordinator and she is very welcome. She comes with very special privileges. A former pupil of mine told me that his daughter was here today. They are from a great club called Na Piarsaigh. I will not call her out because she might be embarrassed but she knows who she is. They are very...

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Exactly.

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister and thank her for being here tonight. Many of us deal with parents. Senators Garvey and Lombard eloquently touched upon the emotions involved. The raw emotion of students and their families impacts on us as well. I am dealing with the case of 15 students from Ballinhassig who are travelling to Kinsale without a bus ticket.The bottom line relates to the human emotion...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. O'Meara and his family to the House and thank them for being here. I commend Senator Wall and the Labour Party on this Bill. I apologise that I missed the briefing by Treoir but I commend it on its great work from which we have all benefited as Members of the House. What was said in the Minister's statement is very true. This debate is about human loss and about grieving....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the decision made regarding the pay claim for the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas. I commend the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, on signing the order in this regard. I commend all involved in the initiative and the effort to ensure the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas receive proper and just pay. I compliment, in particular, my own...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I concur with Senator Murphy in congratulating the boxers on a fantastic achievement. I ask that the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Butler, come to the House to discuss the ongoing issues in nursing homes and care of the elderly. The Home and Community Care Ireland annual conference today will hear that six in ten...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Garvey is correct in that the Senator may receive a tome of context but sometimes the answer is not given at all. We are Government Seanad Members, but it is as frustrating for us as well.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I promise my statement will not be as dramatic as Prime Minister Truss’s.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I have no notion of resigning. Not at this occasion, anyway. I join with Senator O’Loughlin in commending my colleague and friend, Senator Malcolm Byrne, on this very important and appropriate Private Members’ Bill on Seanad electoral reform - if I can use that use that dreaded term, “Seanad reform” - to expand the franchise. He is right that it is time we did...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: She has resigned.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Deputy Leader facilitate a debate with the Minister for Finance on the decision of the Central Bank to ease mortgage-lending limits and thereby allow first-time buyers to borrow up to four times their income? It is an important decision by the Central Bank which I am sure we all consider welcome, but it raises a fundamental question as to its import and what it means in order that...

Seanad: VAT Rate for Tourism and Hospitality Sectors: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State and I concur with a lot of the sentiment expressed in the debate. This is an important sector of our economy and it is one in which we must look at the protection and retention of jobs in what, as Senator Murphy rightly said, is an energy crisis in which the costs have escalated. I will give the example of the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery, where the chief...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their interesting testimony. I will ask an overarching question. I am near the end of the list of speakers, so everything that I wanted to ask has already been asked, but what three points regarding school transport should we as a committee take away from today and bring to the Department of Transport or the Department of Education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: Whichever.