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- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: By whom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the Senator saying?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: He said allegations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: By whom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: By whom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator wants us to debate an allegation or a rumour. What is it? That is the best Kerryman joke I have heard in a long time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator talked about a rumour and an allegation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Please do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ó Domhnaill is wrong.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: They do not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 19 members of the House for their contributions. I join Senator Wilson and all Members in offering our sympathies to the bereaved families, the Taiwan representative in Ireland, H.E. Representative Tu and President Tsai Ing-wen on the tragic deaths in the earthquake in Taiwan. As Senator Wilson said, those who have visited Taiwan recognise the warmth and generosity of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I have no answer to Senator Daly's remarks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure whether it is a Kerryman's joke or a riddle, but he wants the Minister to come to the House to comment on speculation and allegation about something he did not see. Good man, Senator Daly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It would be a good trailer for a drama along the lines of "Yes, Minister".
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is looking for a debate on an allegation of an allegation and speculation. I can impart some good news to Senator Daly on the capital development plan, and I hope that we will have a new hospital in Cork. We badly need one. It is long overdue. We have three tremendous hospitals in the city serving the catchment area beyond Cork city and county. I sincerely believe there is a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: Kerry, as an add on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is true too. The Cathaoirleach is dead right. When I listen to Senator Daly and his colleagues speaking about his party's record on health, I wonder where I am and what I was doing for more than a decade. I recall that his party leader fled from the Department of Health and Children and left poor Mary Harney in situ saecula saeculorum. There are challenges in the health system that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: That is a polite way of saying it. Senator Richmond, who chaired a Brexit committee of the Seanad, is continuing with the work of that committee. I hope that as part of that committee, we will be able to have further engagement. It is important that we have ongoing dialogue between Members of the Oireachtas and members of the UK Parliament, be it the House of Lords or the Commons, to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Jerry Buttimer: It is about all of us having that conversation and being involved in that movement. I saw the list of speakers for the conference in City Hall in Cork. It is one-dimensional. It only has one side. Let us make it broader. That is my opinion. While I agree with the Senator, it is a conversation which we must have in all of the communities of our country - north, south, east and west....