Results 561-580 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I ask the Chair to ask the Deputy to withdraw the remark.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I have every right to be here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: -----to speak for the people for whom the Deputy did not speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: The only people for whom the Deputy spoke were his big rich friends.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: The Deputy and his colleagues were in government for 14 years and they did absolutely nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: They wrecked the country. They squandered money left, right and centre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: They left the poor people of this country on the road-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: -----with their developer friends.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: Sorry, a Chathaoirligh. I am going to finish now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I want him to withdraw the remark.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I am very sorry, a Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I was telling the truth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Yesterday in the Dáil, I referred to the social housing Bill which will be coming before us in this session or early in the next. I see that Ms Deane has put down a supplementary note on the impact of the rent supplement scheme. One of the biggest issues I come across in my constituency office is social housing, and I am sure it is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: The previous Government had 14 years to do it, but it did absolutely nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: For 14 years they turned a blind eye to social housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: They did absolutely nothing then. They let developers - their friends - buy out of projects.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: The Deputy should not say he has done anything for social housing because he has done nothing. He has been playing politics. He had 14 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: The previous Government did nothing for 14 years. We have been cleaning up its mess for three years. It destroyed the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I will finish now but it is very hard to listen to that, when everybody knows what they did. They are a disgrace.
- Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)
Ray Butler: I refer to two Bills. When will the greyhound Bill be published? I welcome the strategic plan for the industry for the coming five years. I am sure many Deputies are seeing many people in their constituency offices in respect of a housing Bill that would strengthen the regulation framework for social housing, provide statutory underpinning for a new scheme of housing assistance payments, a...