Results 10,721-10,740 of 24,326 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden's display this afternoon in the Order of Business was quite poor.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator wants to have a look at Deputy Martin's record-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----I will certainly do that with him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I will do so, no bother------
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: -----because he was the architect of the HSE and he is the person who created the organisation that now runs the health system.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a failed entity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us have that debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden is continuing with his poor judgment again. I will not have that debate with him and will not go to his level. When he goes low, I will go high.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: When Senator Leyden goes low, I will go high.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The number of people on waiting lists is unacceptable. These are human beings, fellow citizens of ours, and they deserve better from our health system. It is time for holistic change regarding the use of theatre spaces. Senator Kelleher referred to Cork University Maternity Hospital and I very much welcome the appointment of Professor John Higgins to his new role. I support him, wish him...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I certainly would not believe everything in that regard. In his budget speech, the Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform made it quite clear that there would be a review of public expenditure. I hope that budget 2017 will be seen as a budget for the disabled because Senator Dolan is correct when he says that expenditure has been-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The budget in the autumn of 2017. I would certainly be happy to organise a debate not with the Taoiseach, but with the Minister for Health, because he is the line Minister with responsibility. I would be happy to work with Senator Dolan in that regard.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I would make the point to Senator Dolan that we have set up quite a few cross-party subgroups in this House and perhaps we should consider setting one up for disability too. In that way we can work across party lines as we are doing on mental health and obesity and as we did on symphysiotomy in the previous Oireachtas. I would be happy to talk to the Senator further on that. I would also...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The issue raised by the Senator is one that both he and Senator Gabrielle McFadden have raised previously in the House. I will be happy to have it discussed again. Ireland 2040 is of importance. I will be happy to have the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, come to the House to debate it. I have issued a request for the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, to come to the House for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No 1, Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 - Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage, to be taken at 1.30 p.m. and to conclude not later than 2 p.m., if not previously concluded, by the putting of one question from the Chair, which shall, in relation to amendments, include only amendments set down by the Government; and No. 2, statements on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 18 Senators who contributed on the Order of Business. I am pleased to inform the House, particularly Senators Kevin Humphreys and Catherine Ardagh, that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, will come to the House on 15 February.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure whether he will come by bus, plane, car, bicycle or on foot but he is coming to the House anyway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: The Leader does listen to Members of this House -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: Transport. That is his brief.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Jerry Buttimer: As far as I know, he has not strayed into the Department of Justice and Equality just yet.