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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will try to come back with a note for Members on that issue over the coming days. I commend Senator Bacik for her role as chairperson of the women's suffrage committee which is celebrating women's right to vote. To be fair to the Senator she has shown huge leadership on this matter along with other Members of the House. I commend her on that and congratulate Trinity College on its 425th...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I know that the Members of the House elected by Trinity College graduates - Senators Ruane, Bacik and Norris - represent the graduates of that university with distinction in this House. Senator Joe O'Reilly raised the issue of buses and public transport in Cavan. He has been very vocal on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, will be busy after the Order of Business today I am sure, given the demands and requests made of him. I have 29 people to reply to. I will try my best to get to everybody to be fair to those who raised matters. It is important that we encourage public transport. I join with Senator Clifford-Lee in commending the principal, an tUasal Ó Tuachaigh, for...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: This Government is committed to bringing the McMahon report to its finality in terms of implementing its recommendations, as was the previous Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that we continue to advance the rights and conditions of the people. We all agree that this is not the way to house people.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It ill behoves the Senator to take cheap shots at people and to use this as a political weapon.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am very much of the same view as the Senator. Direct provision is a blight on our-----

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: We are doing something. The Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, has been before the House. The Senator knows full well there has been a litany of changes made by the Government. He should advance those changes rather than come to the House with the Sinn Féin script, opposing everything.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Dolan raised the issue of disability and young people in nursing homes. The point he made on the number of young people in nursing homes is one on which we should actively promote change. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, for coming to the House today to discuss the disability strategy. I gave the Senator a commitment to have this debate early in the term and to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the first time in the 107 year history of Castlebar Golf Club that it has won the Jimmy Bruen Shield, and it is one that many people aspire to win. I congratulate Baile Átha Cliath on its successful retention of the Sam Maguire and its ladies team, which also won the all-Ireland last weekend.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I also congratulate Tipperary on winning the intermediate title, Galway on winning the all-Ireland hurling final and Cork on winning the all-Ireland camogie final. The one thing we see on Sundays in August and September is that our country is united in sport. We put aside our county rivalries and are united in sport. It was fitting to see the young player from Derry last weekend getting...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: As the only surviving child of the executed leaders in 1916, it is important we recognise, acknowledge, pay tribute and thank him. I wish him le braithe sona dó. Some Senators do not like to hear good news, but on the issue Senator Devine raised regarding the Simon Community health report, I make the point again that this year the Government has given an additional €2 million to...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----the one dimensional speech that the politburo issue and it cannot change.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the Senator might acknowledge that money is being spent.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Murnane O'Connor raised the issue of local government budgets and cited different budgets. The Senator will know that it depends on a variety of factors as to where and how that distribution of local government funding is done, and I am sure the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Phelan, who shares the constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ned O'Sullivan referenced the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which I am a member of, and I join with him in congratulating Senator Noone. The Taoiseach is perfectly correct to outline that we will have a referendum on the eighth amendment, although he has not said what that referendum will be about. Preparation for the referendum forms part of the work...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure if Government has a position regarding the referendum in Catalonia nor am I sure that the Catalonian people want to opt out of Spain, and I am reluctant to get into a debate on the matter. Sometimes it is good to listen to all sides of the debate. A decision was made by the courts at the weekend that must be upheld and supported, and I am not going to get into a debate on it today.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will ask the Minister to come to the House but it might be more judicious to raise this as a Commencement matter. It might be quicker in terms of getting the Minister in because I know that he will be away next week on Government business. It might be an idea for the Senator to raise it as a Commencement matter this week if he can but I will try to get the Minister to come to the House....

Seanad: Oireachtas Committees: Motion (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That: (a) the Select Committee on Rural and Community Development is hereby appointed–(i) pursuant to, and to perform the functions set out in, Standing Order 70A, in respect of the Department of Rural and Community Development, and (ii) with the Orders of Reference of Select Committees contained in the Order of the Seanad of 21st July, 2016; (b) the Committees listed in...

Seanad: Sectoral Employment: Motion (26 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That, subject to the agreement of the motion regarding the change of name of the Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Committee to the Business, Enterprise and Innovation Committee, the proposal that Seanad Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2017,a copy of which was laid before Seanad Éireann on 22nd August, 2017, be...