Results 341-360 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: It would be wrong to put anybody practising medicine in the position being suggested by Deputy Boyd Barrett. The person concerned would end up being judge and jury, the pressure of which would be untold.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: I would use the word “vulnerable” because they would be under greater pressure to make a decision, rightly or wrongly. We have seen this happen during the years. We regularly hear in our constituency offices that serious pressure has been put on the people concerned who are under enough pressure as it is.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: It was because Deputy Paul Murphy came along.
- Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: And the cricket team.
- Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: When can we expect publication of the criminal justice (community sanctions) Bill, the purpose of which is to provide a modern statement on the law governing community sanctions and the role of the Probation Service in the criminal justice system? This issue was highlighted recently in respect of the poor box system in the courts. We must examine this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: In fairness, he was going to pay but he changed his mind.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2015)
Ray Butler: When is it expected that the criminal records information system Bill, the purpose of which is to provide for the exchange of criminal records information with other states and implement Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA, will be published? I ask this question in light of the spate of violent robberies carried out here prior to Christmas by people from outside the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: An issue that often raises its head in my constituency office, and, I imagine, in other constituency offices, relates to a scenario when a husband or wife wants to go back into the workforce. One of them may be working and, basically, the other parent cannot sign on the live register. Previous Governments had certain schemes but those schemes were got rid of. If a person cannot sign on,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Perhaps Deputy Gerry Adams would like to do the same at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Yes, a new low.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Who are the dogs?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Indeed. Absolutely.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: "Call off the dogs" is what she said. My brother's son is a guard. Is he a dog?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Shame on you.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Who are the dogs?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Deputy Coppinger should withdraw that remark.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: She called gardaí "dogs".
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: It is an outrageous thing to call them.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: Withdraw that remark.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ray Butler: The Deputy should be ashamed of herself.