Results 1-15 of 15 for buttimer segment:2905667

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

...; Domhnaill, Labhrás Ó Murchú, Francis O'Brien, Fiona O'Malley, Ned O'Sullivan, Ann Ormonde, Kieran Phelan, Jim Walsh, Mary White, Diarmuid Wilson) Against the motion: 21 (Ivana Bacik, Paul Bradford, Paddy Burke, Jerry Buttimer, Paul Coghlan, Maurice Cummins, Pearse Doherty, Paschal Donohoe, Frances Fitzgerald, Dominic Hannigan, Fidelma Healy Eames, Alan Kelly, Michael...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

...; Domhnaill, Labhrás Ó Murchú, Francis O'Brien, Fiona O'Malley, Ned O'Sullivan, Ann Ormonde, Kieran Phelan, Jim Walsh, Mary White, Diarmuid Wilson) Against the motion: 22 (Ivana Bacik, Paul Bradford, Paddy Burke, Jerry Buttimer, Paul Coghlan, Maurice Cummins, Pearse Doherty, Paschal Donohoe, Frances Fitzgerald, Dominic Hannigan, Fidelma Healy Eames, Alan Kelly, Michael...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has been in Government for long enough.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: How they have changed their tune in Government.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: A man as good as the Minister from the constituency of Cork South-Central who is the Opposition spokesman——

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We have not seen it yet.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that wrong?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Secretary hours? Caretaker hours?

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator could be prosecuted for his lack of understanding of this issue.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence. There have been five Ministers for Education and Science since Ballygarvan was promised a school. What are we to tell the parents, the pupils and the teachers tonight? Is it that they will be cut back or that the Government will look after them? The choice and the solution is in the Minister's hands.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: .... I hope the Opposition will take on board that announcement when it is made. There is no argument about the need for new school buildings and ancillary school infrastructure works. As Senator Buttimer is aware, I make the same argument when I experience poor standards in my own local area. There is a lack of transparency in the system. We need a system that brings that about.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Senator Ross for sharing time with me. I am disappointed that the Minister has gone, because he is effectively putting a freeze on educational spending and he has given us the advance notice tonight. It can be dressed up in any way, but cutbacks are here. The Fianna Fáil election promise on reducing class sizes, on its commitment to special needs, ICT and the schools building...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What happened to the people in Cork South Central, to the people of Ballygarvan and the Star of the Sea school in Passage who were waiting for a new school? We have heard the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, trotting out promise after promise and the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, now doing the same. The former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Shane Ross: I would like to share my time with Senator Buttimer. I was somewhat disappointed with what the Minister had to say, but I welcome the Minister of State to the House. If one reads between the lines of what the Minister had to say, it looks as if there will be a freeze on educational spending next week. The speech he made was peppered with code words like "as resources permit", "in the...