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Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: You might let me finish my sentence.

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I agree with Deputy Clare Daly that we must examine the costs of the Teaching Council. However, to claim teachers do not want to register and are complaining about the council is incorrect. I meet teachers every day and know they are not complaining about it. If she wants to go on about the quality of the embossed paper or the ink the council issues, she should remember it is the same...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: As Deputy Finian McGrath is well aware, the architecture of teaching has changed. We must focus on the delivery of good education by qualified teachers. That is why professional development and in-service training is important. We must not use the recession as a means to dilute that. I challenge the Ministers in the Department to come up with an adventurous and ambitious plan for the...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: It is the notepaper we all get.

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I am a registered teacher.

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (29 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in soft-copy spreadsheet format, details of the numbers of persons awarded added years under the professional added years for superannuation purposes scheme for Institutes of Technology for the period 2002 to date, identifying for each institute the number of staff who have benefited, the grades or posts held by...

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Help him out, Shane.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Higgins is only a bully.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: You did.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Name them.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Did Deputy Martin Ferris hear that bit?

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I commend the Minister on his speech, his approach and his amendment to the motion. Some Members on the benches opposite are content to rewrite history. The Government on the other hand has been active in renegotiating elements of the agreement with the troika and has correctly put jobs at the centre of its policies. I pose the question to Deputy Ferris and the Members opposite in the Sinn...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: The initial version of the agreement required the Government to set appropriate targets for the possible privatisation of State-owned assets. It contained no commitment on investment in the economy. By co-operating and working with the troika, the Government delivered on its commitment to renegotiate the agreement. The Members opposite said it could not be done but it was done. When the...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Agreement was reached with the troika on the sale of State assets and the reinvestment of the proceeds into the economy. That is another example of the Government's successful renegotiation. The Minister has said there will be no fire sale of non-strategic assets. I welcome that and put it on the record of the House. As Deputy Ferris well knows, the McCarthy report recommended the sale of...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: There are many ways in the which the Government can facilitate jobs, either by direct investment or by private sector investment.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: The action plan on jobs is a set of measures to facilitate job creation. Today, despite the protests of the Members opposite we are seeing again a stimulus plan to get the economy and people back to work.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: The Members opposite have an answer to the question in their hearts and in their minds. Do they want people to prosper or do they want to come to the House cnáimhseáling every day? That is a question they must answer.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Does Sinn Féin want to see people working or does it want to play petty party politics? Only its members can answer that.