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Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator will get his answer.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: He should come down and talk to the people who, today, will benefit from the sports capital programme being reintroduced. He should come and talk to the hard-pressed men and women who work and who are in the child care sector. They welcome today's budget.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us have a debate about the USC, which will increase take-home pay, which Sinn Féin probably opposes.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Taoiseach's pay is not being increased.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us have a debate in real terms. If Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh had his way, we would be back in the 1950s waving people off at the dock in Cobh. Today, we are welcoming them home and telling them they can come back and work in our country. I am proud that the Ireland that takes my past pupils, for whom I had to write references when they were leaving between 2007 and 2011, to...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Man up and do the same down here.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re the arrangements for the sitting of the House on Tuesday, 11 October 2016, to be taken without debate at the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, motion re proposal for a Council regulation on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility and on international child...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senators for raising many important issues. Obviously, the area of health and disability has dominated this morning, with Senators Mark Daly, James Reilly, Victor Boyhan, John Dolan, Máire Devine, Rose Conway-Walsh, Martin Conway, Brian Ó Domhnaill and Colm Burke raising the matter. With regard to the news item last night, those of us who were involved in the disability...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The movement of people means we benefit from each other. I was flabbergasted, and although I am not going on a rant-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is the point I was coming to. We have seen the NHS people coming over here to run advertising campaigns. Our nurses and doctors go over to England and are then able to come back here, having benefited from the experience. To be fair to the Taoiseach and Ministers, there is a very strong Brexit team and operation across the whole of the Government. As part of a rolling debate in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister is coming to the House next week, which is another request we have adhered to. With regard to Senator Denis Landy, the Leas-Chathaoirleach has ruled the Tipperary nominations are out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: It is good for the diversity of sport to see the weaker counties being recognised - in football anyway - although I say that with tongue in cheek. Senator Landy raised the important issue of the horse racing industry. The Minister, Deputy Creed, is coming to the House. The Senator also mentioned the issue of child care and the Minister, Deputy Zappone, will also be coming to the House....

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a matter that we could take up with the CPP and the Oireachtas broadcasting unit.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I am only partly suffering from insomnia. I do not listen to the programme or watch it every night. I will get somebody to watch the programme. It is important. The point the Senator made is relevant. We are the Upper House and the second Chamber of the Oireachtas. If the programme covers committees and the Dáil, it should also cover proceedings here. I have said before that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Martin Conway raised the issue of ShannonDoc. It is disappointing to hear what he said. It is linked to the issue of GP retention. His call is valid and I will ask the Minister to liaise with the centre regarding the matter. Senator Ó Domhnaill raised the issue of disability and na cúrsaí Gaeilge. Senators Ó Clochartaigh and McFadden also referred to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The issue raised by the Senator regarding American troops has been well documented. It is an issue about which we have spoken. The important point is that the airport is at the gateway to Europe. Senator Burke raised the issue of home care packages, the importance of training people and the ten-year health strategy. I have emphasised that it is key that Members of the House are part of...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders relative to Public Business, the Seanad shall meet at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 11th October, and Standing Orders 29 and 30 shall stand suspended.”

Seanad: Matrimonial Matters, Parental Responsibility and Child Abduction: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I move:That Seanad Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 27th September 2016 to propose, for the approval of Seanad Éireann, the appointment of Eileen Barrington SC to be a member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, and pursuant to section 9 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, approves the appointment, with effect from the establishment day to be appointed by...