Results 7,981-8,000 of 24,320 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Fianna Fáil Government wrecked the country and Senator Gallagher should be ashamed of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Recent statistics show a 45.7% increase in construction activity. I assure the Senators opposite that the Government is bringing the same determination to housing as it brought to the Action Plan for Jobs. I accept the frustration of Members with regard to housing but we should put the issue in perspective. I mean this genuinely. Our construction sector was decimated and our banking...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We need competition and-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I agree with the Senator, if she will do me the courtesy of listening to me. I am not against her but for her.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am saying that-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There must be competition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There are two parts to the argument and that is the bottom line.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not. We cannot debate a report that has not been published. I gave a commitment in my response that as soon as the report is published, I will have a debate on the issue in the House. I cannot debate a report that is not published. To be fair to the House, I think it would agree with that. I am not trying to stop the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I do not have that. I have the reply from a parliamentary question on 14 June. I made inquiries with the Minister's private secretary and all I can do is act as an honest broker. I do not come in here to obfuscate or deny debate. I have come here to give the facts as I have had them presented to me. I will endeavour to get a date. I will give an assurance to the House that as soon as...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: He is not responsible for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: He is not in charge of-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Can I just clarify-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is her prerogative. I inform the House as a matter of courtesy so that it understands-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Let me bring clarity to the Members so that we can understand where I am coming from. The Minister for Rural and Community Development-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----and the Department of Finance have been working together to investigate the feasibility of a new model of community banking for our country. That includes the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks. The Department has engaged in a process of public consultation to seek views about the concept of the community banking model. The report has been completed....
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is the Minister, Deputy Ring, in consultation with the Minister for Finance, who has responsibility. Historically, the Minister, Deputy Naughten, would have been responsible but that is not the case now. I will keep going with the reply to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I was.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I will reiterate my cast iron guarantee to Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell. As soon as the report is published, I give a commitment to the House that we will debate the report in this Chamber. I cannot publish the report. I cannot have a debate until the Government publishes it. The Minister will come in to talk about nothing until the report is published. I agree with the Senator that we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I have every confidence-----