Results 81-100 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)
Ray Butler: Absolutely. It is always the case that the self-employed person is the last to be looked after. He is paying his taxes, his PRSI and his VAT, and he gets nothing if anything goes wrong.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)
Ray Butler: We have to put something in place. I ask the Leader whether we can have the Minister in to discuss this again. Can we stop kicking the can down the road? Let us put a new stamp for the self-employed in place in the next budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)
Ray Butler: It is in the programme for Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)
Ray Butler: Whether Fianna Fáil is in or out, it is in the programme for Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)
Ray Butler: When the Senator gets the new job in the Phoenix Park.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Ray Butler: I raise the issue of the gritting of secondary roads. We had bad frosty weather over the past few nights but secondary roads in my area near Athboy, Kildalkey, Enfield and Oldcastle are not being gritted. Some of them are on main bus routes. A few weeks ago, a bus went into the ditch in Kildalkey because there was no grit on the road and it could not get any traction on a bad corner....
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Ray Butler: I thank the Senator. It is a good idea. Two or three years ago, farmers in Kerry went to the gravel yards in order that they could grit the roads. When farmers went to do that in counties Laois and Offaly, they were told they could not because there was no insurance to cover them. We have to consider providing insurance for them as well but the Scottish way works.They are paying their...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Ray Butler: I wish to speak about the proposed mortgage restructuring Bill 2017 to be introduced by Deputy Durkan. This Bill will apply to family homes and small enterprises and seeks to curtail the activities of primary and secondary lenders that are insisting on repayment of mortgage in full even though borrowers have been making repayments within their capacity for several years. I have been dealing...
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “That Seanad Éireann:” and substitute:"recognises:- the significant progress made by this Government in reducing the number of people on the live register through its management of the economy over the past number of years; - the achievements of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in moving from a...
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Who is Senator Burke?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: What did Sinn Féin deliver in the North only bombs? That is all it delivered.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: It will not go into government. It is the negativity party. It would not go into coalition. Is that why it had 14 TDs?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Senator Gavan does not like facts.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Senator Gavan does not like facts.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Senator Gavan is arrogant. He has been arrogant since the day he came in here with his communism-----
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Sinn Féin will not go into government. Senator Gavan is arrogant.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: No. Every time Senator Gavan stands up, he is an arrogant man.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: He is an arrogant man. He is not a nice man; he is an arrogant man. That is what he is.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: It is not worth listening to an arrogant man.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Ray Butler: Everytime Senator Gavan stands up he is arrogance personified. He is an arrogant, arrogant man.