Results 1-15 of 15 for buttimer speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...JOHN M. QUINN 746,012.70 MICHAEL  HENNESSY 683,602.88 AONGHUS MC CARTHY 591,304.65 TRACY HORAN SOLR 474,700.00 FRANK A. BUTTIMER 467,171.73 KENNETH CUNNINGHAM 448,687.95 SANDRA FRAYNE 445,174.65 YVONNE BAMBURY. ...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ...keep in touch with him about the collaboration between the local authorities in that regard. Senator Devine made a point about private hospital beds. I want to tie that in with a point Senator Buttimer made about vested interests. Everybody in this House and the other House and everybody everywhere says they are in favour of Sláintecare. We will have to get real soon and stop...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ...Rehabilitation Hospital. I was delighted to be out there with the Taoiseach recently to see phase 1 almost completed. We want to push on with phase 2. We will keep in touch in that regard. Senator Buttimer is right that if we want to fix health, we need a long-term reform plan. We have worked very hard in a minority Government with parties across the Dáil and the Seanad to see if...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: ...for their contributions. There were many similarities in the themes being raised, many of which I can relate to and support. I will try to respond to a couple of them. The very issue Senator Buttimer outlined in raising the challenges public representatives feel - this is not about public representatives - on behalf of citizens is one of the reasons we need to reform the health service....

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: ...in limited circumstances. People are entitled to their own opinions but they are not entitled to their own facts. I remember sitting in the Seanad during the committee hearings chaired very ably by Senator Buttimer and being told, in an awful phrase, that if we passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, as it then was, the floodgates would open. Anyone who reads the...

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

Simon Harris: I have heard a lot today. I thought legislation was complex until I started hearing about Senator Buttimer and Senator Craughwell's trips to nightclubs.

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

Simon Harris: ...strong support for the fundamental principle of minimum unit pricing from Senators on all sides of this House, and the significance of that should not be lost on us. The Leader, Senator Buttimer, mentioned Professor Barry's strong comments during pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill, and I thank him for his work. I also note the World Health Organization's view in its report of 2009 and...

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

Simon Harris: ...selling Irish indigenous products. I will seek further legal clarity on the current wording in the Bill before Report Stage. However, that is the policy aim we are trying to achieve. Senator Buttimer had to pop out but, for the record, there has been a lot of back and forth on the issue of airports. The Senator decently and honestly admits his own all-party committee had a clear view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Simon Harris: I welcome Deputy Jerry Buttimer to a meeting of the finance committee. As Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, I am highly conscious of the need to harness the tourism potential of heritage sites, including those in Cork. I will refer his comments to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, with whom I know he has spoken on the issue. I am not in a position to discuss...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Simon Harris: ...to be localised and now we are talking about Cavan. Which place will we be talking about next? We must look more broadly than that and not fall into the trap of thinking that something was a one-off incident that just happened in this station or that station. It is bigger than that. My colleague Deputy Buttimer also raised a cultural issue in respect of An Garda Síochána...

Health Service Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jul 2012)

Simon Harris: ...the issue of health and I very much welcome the attendance of the Minister for Health in the Chamber. When we talk about the issue of health, it is important to acknowledge, as my colleague Deputy Buttimer did, the work of the health professionals. All too often since the creation of the HSE, we have an image of the health service being run by men and women in suits who brief us at...

National Disability Strategy: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Simon Harris: ...demand among people with disabilities and would make a huge difference in this area. Equally important is the need to ensure appropriate standards are followed in all areas of this sector. Deputy Buttimer referred to the 9,000 people with disabilities who live in residential care but the Minister of State is aware that at present, no statutory independent inspection of these services is...

Review of Serious Incidents including Deaths of Children in Care: Statements (17 Nov 2011)

Simon Harris: ...to invest in our most important asset, our children, who are this country's future. We saw millions, and probably billions, of euro squandered and lost, something to which my colleague, Deputy Buttimer, alluded earlier. E-voting, the Bertie bowl and PPARS are just some of the words that ring in the ears of citizens when they consider the mistakes of the past. One can only reflect, and...

Twenty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)

Simon Harris: ...suited she is to her brief, how seriously she will take her responsibility and how committed she is to the issues surrounding children's rights, child protection and supporting families. Deputy Buttimer went some way towards outlining the Minister's record on these issues when she was a Senator and member of the all-party Oireachtas committee. I wish Deputy McConalogue well in his role as...

Situation in Libya: Statements (24 Mar 2011)

Simon Harris: With the agreement of the House, I will share my time with Deputy Jerry Buttimer. I welcome the debate on Libya. I welcome the assistance being provided by the Government to the people of Libya. Details of this assistance were outlined by the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, in a reply to a parliamentary question and by the Tánaiste and...