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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: She.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 20 Senators who contributed to the Order of Business. Ba mhaith liom mo chomhgairdeachas a gabháil le Bridget Doody as ucht post nua a glachadh. In congratulating her on her appointment, we are blessed and lucky as a House to have a person of her calibre. I have had the pleasure of working with her on a number of initiatives in the Oireachtas and I have always found her to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that Members are aware there will be a motion before the House tomorrow night regarding the Grace inquiry and there will be statements on the Tuam issue on Thursday. It is imperative that as a society we deal with the awful legacies of our past, as the Taoiseach said. They are an awful blight on the name of Ireland, on our people, on our culture and on ourselves. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister for Finance to pull the hand brake a small bit in terms of the Central Bank. We all accept that there should be regulation and oversight. The credit union movement that Nora Herlihy set up was not meant to be considered a bank but to work for people in communities in all parts of Ireland. I am very concerned at the way the Central Bank has treated credit unions. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Humphreys, has commissioned a report on rural Ireland that shall be chaired by Pat Spillane. I am of the viewpoint that we need post offices in rural Ireland. The Government is committed to rural Ireland and the Minister was in the House. We have an Action Plan for Rural Development. If the Senator wishes to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I am happy to invite the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, to the House-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----if the report ever sees the light of day.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important to note the Action Plan for Jobs because more people are now back at work. The biggest area of job creation in this country was outside Dublin in the past year. Approximately 1,300 jobs per week have been created. As much as 70% of the jobs created last year were located outside Dublin. That proves the recovery is beginning to happen beyond Dublin, which is a fact that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Heritage Bill 2016 - Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to be adjourned not later than 5 p.m. if not previously concluded. To clarify it for the House, this is not a guillotine but rather that we will conclude our deliberations for the day at 5 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is a gentleman.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 15 Senators who contributed to the Order of Business. Senator Ardagh mentioned the help-to-buy grant. The figures available last week show that 2,161 applications have been made and 307 have been approved to proceed to finality. As the Senator quite rightly said, the scheme is about assisting first-time buyers to put together a deposit and encouraging the construction of new...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: It might have been my iPad and I apologise if it was. It is important that when we debate mental health, we put on record that a lot of work is being done and there is investment. We need to do more because mental health services were the Cinderella of the health service for years. There has been investment and we have a Minister of State committed to the service. Senator Gavan raised the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The question Senator Norris posed about property tax is with what would it be replaced. It goes back to the old question we all have on how to fund the provision of services and the provision of facilities for people. I join with Senator Kieran O’Donnell in extending sympathy to the deceased man’s family after that tragic motorway accident. He is right to highlight the issue...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, Domestic Violence Bill 2017, Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. with the time allocated to group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes; and No. 2, Private Members' business, motion No. 17, to be taken at 3.30 p.m. with the time allocated to the debate not to exceed...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Sinn Féin is only finished canvassing in the North.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Can I join with the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the delegation led by Dr. Abdullah Al Qubaisi. I hope that they have a very pleasant, beneficial and informative visit to the Houses of the Oireachtas. I thank the 23 Members who have contributed to the Order of Business. If I can reply to Senator Daly about Orkambi. This morning I spoke with representatives from Vertex. I fully agree with...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and which will give the members of the deaf community support, resources and whatever else the Bill intends to achieve. I met members of the deaf community in Cork with Senator Lombard on Monday, as I have done regularly. I hope we can work out a legislative process whereby the Bill can be enacted, perhaps not by 29 March but certainly soon after. It is important to put that on...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish sometimes that the Senator would stop being like the teenager who knows everything and give some of us who, perhaps, may not agree with his ideology a chance. We do not want to see a bus strike, a cut in funding to Bus Éireann or a reduction in the bus service across many parts of the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator heard my remarks yesterday regarding the communication from Bus Éireann to the workers, he would understand from where I am coming.