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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: Steady, Tommy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy Smith for the question and for his leadership and advocacy. The Deputy is right. The projects, facilities and amenities in his area in particular are bringing huge, profound and important change. I thank the Deputy for being cochair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. The PEACEPLUS programme, which runs until 2029, has a total value of €1.1 billion and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I will make reference to the issue of the Cavan regional sports campus and give credit to Deputy Smith on that. This is about the reimagining of communities and investment in areas. It is a project that will bring, as the Deputy said, profound transformation to the area. It is a shared space. It represents a new type of modern Ireland and this facility, when it is developed, will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: Both the Minister and I are acutely aware of that. We have been anxious to ensure the distress many people felt is not replicated. That is why the review is taking place. There has been extensive engagement by our Department, and by the Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, with the telecom companies. As part of that review alternative technologies are being examined and considered, because the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: We must take learnings from every storm and apply them in the round to what we can do better. The Deputy is right that there was huge success. There is merit in her suggestion about community groups being involved because they are critical to connectivity. However, the Minister and I have been clear with the officials in our Department that there must be extensive engagement. Pobal staff...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy for her question and her ongoing advocacy, particularly post Storm Éowyn. The Department is responsible for the seniors alert scheme, which encourages community support for older people through the provision of personal monitored alarms to enable them to live securely in their homes with confidence, independence and peace of mind. Funding is available under the...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: He is not capable of that.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tá gach muinín agam agus ag an Rialtas as an Tánaiste. Is fear uasal, ceannaire láidir agus duine cothrom é. Go mór mór, is fear agus is duine é lán le trua. In every role that Simon Harris has played, he has demonstrated a number of attributes. He is personal, and he is committed to people and to working with...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Residential Institutions (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator O'Reilly for raising this very important and sensitive matter. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Education and Youth, Deputy McEntee, who sends her apologies because she cannot be here. I assure the Senator that the Government is very conscious of the enormous trauma experienced by all survivors of abuse. She is right that these are vulnerable people. With...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Residential Institutions (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: It is a very sensitive and difficult matter, as I outlined in my reply at the beginning. In June 2023, the Government approved a provision of a package of ongoing supports to survivors in the areas of health, education and advocacy, which built upon the already significant State response to the issue. It is considered that the package is a balanced and proportional approach which addresses...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Road Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Senator for raising the matter of the N71. The Senator is right that it is very different from when it was first originated and built. The Senator has outlined very much the key issues of safety and congestion. The traffic volume has made many of those vibrant towns very congested. I concur completely with the Senator that the N71 from the Bandon Road roundabout back to Bantry...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Road Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I accept the Senator's disappointment. The N71 is a very important gateway to west Cork. I live at the beginning of it and have travelled it. There is huge merit in what the Senator is suggesting about a co-ordinated corridor. I will not read out the rest of the response to the Senator because it will probably aggravate him further and I do not want to do that. We all share, whether it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: As Minister of State at the Department of Transport with special responsibility for Rural Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: As Minister of State at the Department of Transport with special responsibility for Rural Transport I recognise the importance of boosting connectivity in County Kildare. In the new Programme for Government, Securing Ireland's Future, this Government has committed to continue the roll-out of Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: Sinn Féin is proposing 23 new taxes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: Sinn Féin proposed 23 new taxes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care Services (9 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Senator for raising the matter and wish her luck in her lip sync at the weekend. The contribution she made is a powerful one because it is the lived experience of many parents. In many ways, the reply I give will be inadequate to the articulation she has given because she is right. There is a group of parents who are caring for their disabled adult child, and they are now...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care Services (9 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I again thank Senator Costello. She is right; it is about communication, but it is also about trust. It is about prioritising this very important issue she has raised because there is huge concern among that group of parents.It is a challenge. There is a significant waiting list for residential services. Demand is extremely high and exceeds what we are currently providing. The Government...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: I am sharing time with the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon. Is mian liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leo siúd a dhéanann ár bpobail a fheabhsú agus a chothú, agus a chuireann deiseanna ar fáil sna pobail sin. Tá €260 milliún sa bhuiséad forbartha comhphobail. Baineann forbairt comhphobail le duine nó gnó a chuireann...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Oct 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: As Minister of State at the Department of Transport with special responsibility for Rural Transport I recognise the importance of boosting connectivity in Counties Cavan and Longford. In the new Programme for Government, Securing Ireland's Future, this Government has committed to continue the roll-out of the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan. The National Transport Authority (NTA)...