Results 8,621-8,640 of 24,320 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It would behove Senator Clifford-Lee to listen rather than come in-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Before I responded she used the word nonsense. I know it hurts Senators over there to hear the facts, not alternative facts, the real facts.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Thankfully, this Government and the last Government restored our country with the help of the Irish people. There are more people back at work, there is a construction sector that is beginning to re-emerge from the doldrums of a decade, a lost decade caused by Senator Clifford-Lee's party in government and nobody else. We had to re-brand and reconstruct FÁS as SOLAS, following the mess...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: In respect of the communications unit, the Members opposite do not like good news. There are €116 billion worth of good news projects for every community, town, city and county. Which one would the Senators not welcome in their communities?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Which one would the Senator not welcome?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Which one would she not welcome?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should cast her mind back.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I bring her mind back to her venerable great leader's role and that of the former leader and Taoiseach in the national development plan 2000. It is the same thing.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a question of communicating, informing, letting people know.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If Senator Clifford-Lee objects, and I know she is upset about it now-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If she objects to any of the projects-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: -----that are being promised for her area she should tell the people why she is against them and she should not be coming in here with a phony, fake war.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am replying to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am replying to the Order of Business and that is what I am doing.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Sometimes Members do not like to hear the good news. That is understandable because we have good news to tell people but we have a very clear separation between the fourth estate and Members of the Government and of the Oireachtas, and that is how they should do their business. In keeping with the previous national development plan, Project Ireland 2040, there was no communication with...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am committed, as is Senator Craughwell, to ensuring that we find truth. It will not bring young Aidan McAnespie back, but obtaining justice will give his family some solace. I join with Senator Ó Donnghaile in saying that the issue of equality is important for the North, and particularly the issue of marriage equality. Senators Butler and Norris raised the issue of Permanent TSB and...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I was of the view that it was being investigated. I join with the Senator in saying that there is no way that we should allow vulture funds to have permanent charitable status. That is not what the Act was set up for. Charitable status is not about vulture funds being able to piggy-back and to write off tax, in my opinion-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and it should not be allowed to continue. I know the Revenue Commissioners were investigating that, but I would really hope that the situation does not pertain where vulture funds are able to obtain a write-off by virtue of a loophole or a section of the Charities Act. They should not be able to have charitable status. The Cathaoirleach has ruled on the matter of an tUachtarán....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is not our jurisdiction.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope he does not go for his tea just yet, but I would not like to see him re-elected. His first 12 months in office have been littered with bad decisions and poor governance. The issue of An Uachtaráin is a matter for himself. I very much hope any candidate who obtains the necessary criteria can run for election. A democracy is about a contest.