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- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
The Seanad Divided: For the motion: 15 (Ivana Bacik, Paul Bradford, Paddy Burke, Jerry Buttimer, Ciarán Cannon, Paudie Coffey, Paul Coghlan, Maurice Cummins, David Norris, Joe O'Reilly, Joe O'Toole, John Paul Phelan, Feargal Quinn, Shane Ross, Liam Twomey) Against the motion: 29 (Dan Boyle, Martin Brady, Larry Butler, Ivor Callely, James Carroll, John Carty, Donie Cassidy, Maria...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the rest of us?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I have declared.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: It did not stop the Senator naming people yesterday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I asked the Leader a question, to which he has not replied. It was related to VHI and the Minister for Health and Children.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: On the ordering of business in the House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: May I ask the Chair a question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Can I ask you a question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: On the scheduling of business today, does the Leader has an objection to asking the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to discuss the proposed VHI increases?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Donie Cassidy: Senators Twomey, Bacik, Boyle, Coghlan, Buttimer, O'Reilly and Regan outlined various concerns regarding the Department of Finance. The undertakings the Government had to deal with and the challenges it faced over the past two and a half years are unprecedented. Looking back on what was achieved, where we are today, and where we were under previous Administrations during downturns in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Joe O'Reilly: I formally second the amendment proposed by Senator Buttimer. I support the proposition made by Senator Wilson that the Minister for Finance attends the House because this matter concerns his brief and taxpayers' money. The Minister has direct responsibility and has the power to alter matters. He should address the fears, some of which may be groundless. Groundless or not, there are real...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Leader, in the light of Senator O'Toole's remarks and specifically the statement made by the Minister for Health and Children in the other House yesterday that her advisers had produced a report showing VHI could secure savings in the payments it made to hospitals, to invite the Minister to come before the House to discuss a motion...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2011)
Donie Cassidy: ...It behoves us in this House to welcome this magnificent announcement and acknowledge how uplifting it will be for all those young people who will get jobs in Leixlip. Senators Twomey, O'Toole and Buttimer called on the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to discuss the proposed increases in VHI premiums. I agree with them that the proposed increase of 45% in certain...