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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 20 Members of the House for their contributions on the Order of Business. Like the Cathaoirleach, on behalf of all of us in the House, I acknowledge and welcome to the Gallery the members of the Historical and Reconciliatory Police Society and thank them for their contribution to public service and to public life. I worry that they are with Senator Craughwell. I am not sure...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a bit like everything else. There are different viewpoints but there is a process that the Committee on Procedure and Privileges has commissioned. Maybe we can see what the outcome from the Committee on Procedure and Privileges is. I do not want to pre-empt the result of that but we will come back to it, if that is okay with Senator Norris. Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Methinks the Senator doth protest too much.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am smiling because some of the members of Fianna Fáil remind me of an under-14 team. They wore the jersey and banged the hurley off the desk for Micheál Martin this morning and they are all coming in with a pep in their step in this first week back after the Easter break. The lads need to know it is a question of being in government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Does the Senator want me to list-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Does Senator Murnane O'Connor want me to list the broken promises of Fianna Fáil?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If she wants me to, I will. The fundamentals are that we do need to see a collective end to the scourge of people being homeless and being put into hotels. We need to see a continuation of the social housing building that the Government has commenced. We need to see the issue of the affordability of land being tackled and we need to look at all measures that can increase the output and...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Today we have 1,325. In any man's language, that is a decrease. That is going down. The €8.4 billion allocated by the Government will allow for prefab replacement. I taught in a prefab in my previous life. I was the person who, on a wet and wild day, could hear the wind and have the rain coming through, with a storage heater that worked if I gave it a kick and did not work at all...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government is committed to modernising, investing and refurbishing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister, Deputy Bruton, as I said yesterday, is committed to coming to the House to discuss the Action Plan for Education. Senators Warfield and Ó Donnghaile raised a very important issue around the enactment of the Children and Family Relationships Act. To be fair, Senator Warfield outlined to me before today that he was going to raise the matter. I was in touch with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am as anxious as the Senator to get the matter resolved. That is why I took his request as seriously as I did.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am happy to work with Senator Warfield. I am as anxious as he is to get the matter resolved.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I will put in a request to have the Senator meet the Department and I will go with him if he wants. I have no problem with that.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Warfield. It is a very important, sensitive matter and the lives of people are being discommoded in a variety of ways.

Seanad: Fodder Shortage: Motion (18 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar 10.30 maidin amárach.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Today's Order of Business is No. 1, Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Committee Stage, resumed, to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and to be adjourned at 6.30 p.m. if not previously concluded; and No. 2, Private Members' business, Declaration of Independence Day Bill 2017 – Committee Stage, to be taken at 6.30 p.m. and to adjourn after two hours, if not previously concluded.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope the Cathaoirleach's dancing shoes will never be gone. I thank the 18 Senators and the Cathaoirleach for their contributions. On behalf of Fine Gael, I join those who sympathised with the McBride family on the sad passing today of Tom McBride, better known as Big Tom. As Senator Wilson said, he was predeceased by his wife, Rose, who was his friend, companion, confidante, helper and...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Approximately 800 people were recruited, the cadet class for last year, and this year, is 100 and all Defence Forces personnel have received a pay increase.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Defence Forces has introduced a new payscale for recruits-----