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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I will try to get a time for the Minister to come to the House. It will probably be after Private Members' business, but let me come back to the House on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes. She will definitely be here tomorrow. To help the House, I hope it will be sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., depending on when we have concluded Private Members' business. I will come back to the House on that.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of information, a Leas-Chathaoirligh------

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: There are four hours of debate.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: To be fair-----

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, the Senator is pretty good at alternative facts-----

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: -----going back to the referendum campaign.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re psychoactive substances, back from committee, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 2, statements on the Action Plan for Rural Development, 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 and that of all other Members not to...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Look at Deputy Micheál Martin's record.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: Tiocfaidh ár lá.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: He is right.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I thank the 22 Senators for raising a multiplicity of questions and some for raising no questions at all. I do not want to create a political row with Senator Ardagh, but I did endeavour to work with her yesterday to have the matter she raised on the Order of Business addressed. It is very important that I reiterate again today that the national children's...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: I make the point as somebody who chaired the Joint Committee on Health, who went out with the committee to the site, that we should stop-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: We should stop playing politics with the national children's hospital. I refer in particular to people outside the House who were orchestrating campaigns and trying to create and sow seeds of confusion in the minds of people.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government recognises the importance of the hospital. The Department of Health, the HSE, the children's hospital group and the national paediatric hospital development board are continuing to work to ensure that we deliver a world-class facility which we will all have. I share Senator Ardagh's views that we should have it. As I said yesterday, an evaluation of tenders has taken place....

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The Lansdowne Road agreement oversight group is having a meeting to discuss the situation regarding the industrial actions of the INMO. As Leader of the House, I hope that both sides will re-engage in this issue. We have seen three weeks of discussion and I am led to believe from both sides that significant progress was made in those three weeks of talks. I hope that there will be dialogue...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: We will not rerun it again. We have seen the biggest budget increase in the history of the State. Despite what Senator Gallagher may think, when they were in government, Deputy Martin had a budget that was bigger than Senator Reilly's when he was there in the Department. That is the fact. That is not alternative facts or fake news. That is a fact. Deputy Martin ran out of health with...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: That was Fianna Fáil's record.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The other records Fianna Fáil had-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: The other record Fianna Fáil had was that it created the HSE and in doing that, added layers of bureaucracy. We would all like to see the HSE and those charged with running the health service held to account. There is political accountability, as the Senator knows, but there is no accountability for those in the HSE and hospital groups who were issued money through a Vote by the...