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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: You jumped ship Deputy McGrath and you stand for nothing in my mind.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: You are like the wind; you blow wherever it goes. At least Deputy Cowen has the courage of his convictions-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and to be fair to them the Sinn Féin Deputies also have their convictions. However Deputy McGrath has none.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: None.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: I want to say to people outside the Chamber who are listening that I wish it was different. I apologise to them for the cuts we are making and for the hard calls we are taking. However it is for the betterment of the Irish people and for the betterment of Irish society. I was a schoolteacher for 20 years and many of my past pupils and clubmates from Bishopstown GAA club have emigrated....

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: Let me finish. You make decisions in government in the North and you have accepted responsibility in the North.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: I will, because the Social Welfare Bill-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not need geography at all. I am as republican as Deputy Ó Snodaigh.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: The social welfare rate in the North is much less than here. We now have a paymaster here, the EU-IMF troika, which dictates what we can do. You can act dismayed and make faces at me but this is the reality.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: Our economic sovereignty has been given away-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: -----and it behoves all of us to reclaim it, not just to get it back but to give a generation of people, be they supporters of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Sinn Féin or whoever, the opportunity to have an Ireland that is free where they can work and do not have to go cap in hand to Europe to get money, and where we can have a society, be it socialist or capitalist, where work,...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: Irrespective of whether I agree with Deputy Cowen, at least today he was living in the real world. Sometimes Fianna Fáil voted with us, but Sinn Féin has abandoned all sense of realism and responsibility to the Irish people.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: The rhetoric of the general election campaign is different from being in government and some day Deputy Ó Snodaigh might know this. If he does I hope I am here-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope I am still here. In many ways I will probably be like Joxer in the Christy Moore song as I will have woken up from a bad dream because Deputy Ó Snodaigh will probably be Minister for Defence-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy beside him, Deputy McDonald, will be Minister for Finance, Deputy McLellan will be Minister for tourism, Deputy Ellis will be Minister for something else and Deputy Mattie McGrath will be Minister for catchall and the country will be bankrupt.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government by its decisions has ensured-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: "Scoile"; get it right. The Government has ensured the personal rates of weekly payments such as jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, invalidity pension, disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance, the half-rate, the State pension, the widow's and widower's pension and the one parent family payment will not be reduced. I welcome the Government's decision to listen to the concerns...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: Bertie is in the bottom of the cupboard.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is wrong.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order-----