Results 13,001-13,020 of 24,326 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 7, 10, and 37 to 40, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendment No. 10 has already been discussed with amendment No. 7. Acceptance of this amendment involves deletion of section 8.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 11 to 19, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: You may speak at the end. A number of amendments to the section have not yet been moved.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 29 to 35, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has completed its consideration of the Children First Bill 2014 and has made amendments thereto.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: This is the select sub-committee so the Minister may proceed.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I was going to ask Deputies Troy and McLellan to respond but, technically, it is not a matter for the select sub-committee. Given the fact that this is an extremely serious child protection issue, it is important that we ask Tusla to come before the joint committee next Thursday if possible and that the Minister brief the Opposition and possibly forward the information he has to the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Have they taken appropriate action thus far?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it confined to that area?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Several hundred cases?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Referrals?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not really the committee's business this morning.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister to ensure that the joint committee be apprised of the situation. While it is not the select committee's business, the joint committee is to hear from Tusla on Thursday morning next. The select committee is not empowered this morning to discuss or make decisions on this issue. Given what was involved, I allowed the Minister to make his statement. It is a matter of child...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have asked him to do that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister to apprise the Opposition spokespersons as well.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and all of the officials, Ms Michele Clarke, Ms Marie Kennedy, Ms Dolores Moran and Ms Moira Griffin, for their work, assistance and co-operation this morning. I thank them for being here.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (29 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forward a mediation Bill to promote mediation as a viable, effective and efficient alternative to court proceedings, thereby reducing legal costs and speeding up the resolution of disputes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16958/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (29 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider implementing legislation in relation to the topping and cutting of trees on private property, in particular where such trees are obstructing public footpaths and roads, interfering with rights of access, posing a risk to public safety and/or interfering with the supply of public services, such as electricity and telephone...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (29 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 136. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation for the resolution of problems associated with high hedges and trees, similar to provisions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which demonstrates a clear preference for the resolution of such disputes at local level, preferably by mediation, with recourse to the courts...