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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Could I remind Senator Craughwell that this Government and the last Government have been unwinding the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should let me finish. If he wants to have a debate let us hear all the facts. This Government and the last Government have been unwinding the cuts imposed. Pay restoration is happening.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Pay restoration is happening. I did not see or hear Senator Craughwell come into the House today or any day and welcome the fact that he and many other public servants have received a pay increase, and will receive further pay increases of between 6.2% and 6.4%, since we started the process of unwinding FEMPI. It would behove the Senator more to recognise that by 2021 or 2022, FEMPI will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I accept and have always spoken, as one who has been a public servant all my life, of the importance of the public sector, of the massive imposition that men and women who work in the public service had to endure in the turbulent times of the economy being wrecked by the Fianna Fáil Party-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If I may finish – I did not interrupt the Senator at all – there was a top-up given to some ministerial advisers, in some cases signed off by the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and a second by the present Minister, Deputy Donohoe. There are cases made. I have always made the point, and am on record as saying, that there should never have been a...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I have always made that point and I do not recoil from that. It is, however, a bit unfair of Senator Craughwell to come in here and castigate Government when he fails to recognise that FEMPI is being unwound and pay restoration is happening.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator can "come on" all he wants to. That is the reality.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: That is the reality.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Cathaoirleach ruled on Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell’s point. The only contribution I will make is to side with the Cathaoirleach in that the language we use in this Chamber in particular should always be parliamentary and such that we should not be afraid to use it outside here. I concur with the Cathaoirleach in that. Senator Warfield raised a very important matter. I did not...

Seanad: Competition Act 2002 Order: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Seanad Éireann approves the following Order: Competition Act 2002 (Section 27) Order 2018, copies of which have been laid before Seanad Éireann on 3rd October, 2018.”

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. with the time allocated to group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and all other Senators not to exceed five minutes; No. 2, Greyhound Racing Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken at 3 p.m. and to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: No. 1 is to be taken at 12.45 p.m. with the time allocated to group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and all other Senators not to exceed five minutes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: No. Second Stage will conclude today.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: We will adjourn it at 3 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, but I do not envisage that happening. We will adjourn the debate at 3 p.m. if it is not concluded. I do not envisage that happening. If it is not concluded, we will adjourn the debate at 3 p.m. but I do not think we will reach that point.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: What did Senator Wilson say?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Some people in particular parts of the House-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Which Minister? Is the Senator referring to Deputy Ring?