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Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: Senator Butler is out of order.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: An arrogant, arrogant man.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: It takes a lot from Senator Gavan.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: He is some sort of arrogant person.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: He is an arrogant pig.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: I withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: I also express my condolences to the Iranian people following the earthquake. There were heart-wrenching pictures in a newspaper of a mother holding in her arms her baby daughter who had been killed in the earthquake.The census figures for 2016 which were released last week showed how small towns had been hardest hit by the recession in the past ten years, while Dublin had been the least...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: I thank the Minister for making his decision and for speaking to the small business groups. It is to be welcomed. Coming from a family business background, anything that is hidden makes it very appealing. Down through the years I have seen from video shops to shoe shops to clothes shops and various other outlets that if one hides something under the counter it makes it appealing. That was...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Ray Butler: I will let the Senator use his imagination. On structural separation in the multiples, if mammy and daddy bring Johnny and Mary to the supermarket and want to buy a bottle of wine, then Johnny and Mary have to go with them through the structural separation and into "Funderland". That is what will happen. It will become a Funderland. The multiple will get out its advertising team and make...

Seanad: Report on Lone Parents in Ireland: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: I welcome the report and the Minister's statement to the House. I know she is passionate about putting some of the wrongs to rights. The lone parents of Ireland make up a diverse group. It includes parents who have achieved the full range of educational qualifications. It is diverse in terms of the ages of parents and children and it includes families with one child to seven children or...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: I welcome the Minister bringing in the banks on the issue of tracker mortgages. I want to speak about the tourism and hotel industry and about keeping the 9% VAT rate in the budget for 2018. A rise of 1% would result in €70 million per year to the Exchequer. When I met tourism officials three or four years ago, they promised to keep their prices right if the 9% rate was maintained....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: It is not good enough to see bed prices rising up to anything between €300 and €600 per night. The prices of drink and food are going through the roof. When beds cannot be sold for €300 to €600 the prices are dropped to absolutely nothing online to get rid of them. They are conning people. One sees bottles of Heineken for €6 and pints of Guinness for...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: I, too, would like to pay my condolences to all the families who lost loved ones in yesterday's storm.I congratulate the Taoiseach, the emergency services and all the Departments on getting the message out early. It was a disgrace to see those going for a swim in Galway or kite surfing and I agree with Members that penalties should be imposed on such people. Those in the emergency services...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: I would like to express my condolences to the Cosgrave family. I congratulate Martin O'Neill and the Irish soccer team on their win. It was like a mini World Cup victory. I hope Ireland will qualify to go to Russia. I congratulate the Meath senior camogie team who won the All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Final against Cork last Sunday week. Let me say: "Well done girls." It is great...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Ray Butler: I wish to convey my condolences to all the families in the USA. It was terrible to see the scenes on the television. I wish to raise again the question of commercial rates. I have been dealing with a business family in recent weeks who owe €12,000 in commercial rates. They offered to pay €100 a week on top of paying this year's rates. The offer was accepted with a struggle....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Ray Butler: I welcome the Minister and wish her all the best in her new job. I also welcome Mr. John McKeon. During the recession we had the self-employed disaster where, basically, the self-employed suffered big-time. We had to lower threshold levels to try to get people to become self-employed and, thankfully, the Minister of the day, Deputy Joan Burton, and the then Government did that. It was an...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)

Ray Butler: I would like the Minister for local government to come to the House. I spoke at length recently about paid parking in towns and villages, out-of-town shopping centres, and giving planning permission for out-of-town shopping centres and filling stations. As far as I can see, it is unfair competition for those who are trying to run their businesses in the centre of towns and it is to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)

Ray Butler: Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Ray Butler: I agree with everything Senator Davitt said. I wish to call for the Oireachtas to have a Diabetes Ireland open screening day which would involve cross-party and staff screening. The reason I call for it is that a World Health Organization report published two weeks ago states that 1.3 million people died of diabetes-related illnesses in 2016, the incidence of which is up 30%. A survey on...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2017)

Ray Butler: I welcome the HSE's report on type 2 diabetes in Ireland that was released last week. The report claims there are 200,000 people in Ireland who have type 2 diabetes. I would say there are another 200,000 to 300,000, which is a conservative estimate, who do not know they have type 2 diabetes. The report called on GPs to do more about the issue and wants GPs to advertise the seriousness of...

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