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- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 17 Members of the House for their contribution to the Order of Business. On behalf of myself and the Government, I thank and pay tribute to all our first responders-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----health care workers, including nurses, doctors, domestic staff, porters, catering staff, gardaí, Civil Defence, prison officers, the fire brigade, council staff and the ESB. It showed the importance and the dedication of our public service and public servants. They were led by Mr. Sean Hogan, chair of the National Emergency Coordination Group, NECG. I thank him and the staff of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a learned man who reads a lot. If he did not know that, then there is a need for the strategic communications unit. He just made the case for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The problem is, as the Senator will be aware, very few listen to us in here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We should examine the report on the cost of motor insurance. I agree that there is a need to reduce the cost further and there is an obligation on all of us to work together to do that. I join Senators Craughwell and McFadden in praising our Defence Forces in the context of Storm Emma. The men and women of the Defence Forces also deserve huge admiration and praise for their role in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to have a debate on communications in government. Do people want the Government not to communicate at all? Do they want to cease communications on health, insurance, social protection, the national development plan-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The problem-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: -----that Senator Mullen and others have is that they do not want to see good news in terms of the national development plan.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: They do not want to see €116 billion being spent on improving the lives of our people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The other point which was raised, which I do have to ask about in a rhetorical sense, is what does the media cover? Whom do they want to see on the front page of newspapers? What do they want to see? What sells newspapers? Rather than just focusing on one part of communication, there is a two-way street here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I would not be afraid of having a debate about the role of the media and how they cover politics, and how they cover any topic for that matter, whether it is the courts, education or whatever. I would be happy to have that debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I think it is important.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I know but there are 700 press officers across Departments.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: So-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator was-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: There you go. So, you see-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: We will do that but it is important to have balance though in what we come into the House with. I am not saying Senator Mullen is imbalanced or anything. It is important to have balance in what is being spoken about. The problem is many of the people who criticise this unit are talking rubbish, to be honest. I am not saying the Senator is, but some of them are.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Finally, I join Senator Feighan in calling on the British MP to withdraw his remarks regarding the Taoiseach. He is doing what every other Taoiseach has done, or should do, and that is to protect the Irish citizen and Ireland. Brexit will have a profound impact on us as a country. The Taoiseach and the Government have a duty to protect and advocate on behalf of Ireland. That is being done...