Results 10,341-10,360 of 24,571 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister and thank him for agreeing to come to the House for this discussion.I wish all those involved in the public sector pay talks every success. As the Minister said, the Public Service Pay Commission is the backdrop and the beginning. It is important that we see this matter resolved. It is also important that other unions such as my own union, the ASTI, reconsider how...
- Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----Buttevant and Charleville in particular. Senator McDowell is dying to know about it and he was referenced in our hustings, as I said during the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I have the membership application form. Senator McDowell can rejoin Fine Gael. He would be more than welcome. Our philosophy is that we are a big tent. We are a very diverse and inclusive party.
- Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The M20 is a very important route that we need to see prioritised by the Government. When we discuss regions, it is really about access to Cork, Galway and Limerick as a counterfoil to Dublin. The people of Cork, Limerick, Galway and Clare deserve to have that motorway. It will allow us to promote jobs and industry in those areas. I am aware that the Minister has been lobbied extensively...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, statements on defence matters, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to conclude no later than 2.30 p.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes each, those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes each and the Minister will be called to reply no later than 2.25 p.m.; No. 2, statements on areas of natural constraint, to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Could the Senator repeat that? I did not hear it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information, the motion was defeated last week on two occasions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator cannot do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: There are procedures and rules of the House. The Senator should not give me that glib argument. She knows the position on this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The acting classes are going well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I have an application form. The Senator would be welcome to join.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Ruane would be very welcome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: How is he using taxpayers' money?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: We will have big news next week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: No, he does not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I never said that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not laughing at the Senator; I am laughing because she quoted me as saying "dún do bhéal".
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is about to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 16 Members of the House who contributed to the Order of Business. I join the Cathaoirleach and all Members in welcoming Dr. Omar Shuayb, the trade and investment Minister from Somaliland, to the Chamber. I join all of my colleagues in sending congratulations to our colleague and friend, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee and her husband, John, on the birth of Edward, and wish them...