Results 1-9 of 9 for construction industry council speaker:Jerry Buttimer

Seanad: Transport and Sport: Statements (20 Nov 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ..., walking and cycling infrastructure. I ask the Minister to take note of the proposed Lee to sea greenway project which should receive attention in the Department in working with the county council and the city council on how a new greenway route can be promoted. The Minister has been very supportive of the greenway programme. This is a route which winds its way around the city of Cork...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ...issue he raised regarding the building regulator, I will be happy to invite the Minister to the House to discuss the matter. Senator McDowell raised housing and student accommodation. We all welcome the construction of student accommodation. It was a failure of the planning system that when many third level institutions were expanded, the provision of student accommodation in tandem with...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jan 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...was moving it today. Senator Paddy Burke raised the issue of driverless cars and this is the most important and pressing issue in our automobile and transport sector today. There has been a lot of debate on it and periodicals in the industry suggest it is coming down the track fairly quickly. We can also see what is happening with diesel cars and I would be happy for the Minister for...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...that the Minister has set targets and that he must be accountable for them. In response to Senator Murnane O'Connor's point about voids, I would like to hear what the county manager and county council are doing about it. They are the line people who are responsible. The Minister can only do so much. In addition, the Senator must accept that it was when her party was in government that...

Seanad: Sports Capital Programme. (30 Mar 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: ...on national lottery scratch cards goes? Will she further state where the money allocated to the sports capital programme has gone? This matter has never been addressed. In 2006 the Irish Sports Council published a report entitled, Ballpark Figures, which states, "At present, sport punches below its weight as a policy issue". In conjunction with several colleagues, I took part in the...

Seanad: Employment and Competitiveness: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: ...being open for business, about wanting to attract foreign direct investment and using Ireland as a benchmark or model for good employment, we need to see real action. What happened in the aviation industry this week does not help. The Government's collapse of social partnership before the budget also does not help. I repeat what I have said previously and again this morning on the Order...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (11 Mar 2009)

Jerry Buttimer: I would welcome a debate on the role of the Construction Industry Federation, CIF. Senator Butler had some cheek defending it this morning given the fact that it gobbled up profits for years and colluded with the Government to leave us in this situation. Like Senator Fitzgerald and others, I ask for a debate prior to the budget. Yesterday, the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. John Hurley,...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels (18 Nov 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ...northside and southside of Cork city. Hormann Electronics, Tyco Sensormatic, Bourne Electronics and a host of other electronics companies have gone to the wall, not to mention the small building construction companies and ancillary service companies. This needs clear Government action in a number of spheres, most importantly, on the development of the airport, on the provision of a car...

Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (8 Jul 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That is fine. The debate this afternoon is very timely, given that there appears to be an over-reliance on the construction industry. I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment but he comes into office at a time when waiting lists are growing, we have an increase in vacant dwellings, there is developer-led planning in society and where the banks have given out money ad nauseam...