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Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Sep 2002)

Ulick Burke: I support my colleagues' requests for discussions on the issues mentioned. At the start of this new academic year, education is in a state of chaos and crisis. Will the Leader request the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House to explain how he intends to deal with the uncertainty in second level education regarding supervision and substitution? The Minister inherited this...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Sep 2002)

Ulick Burke: I am asking that the Minister come to the House as a matter of urgency to discuss this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Sep 2002)

Ulick Burke: I would like the Leader to address this urgent issue.

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht, 2002: An Dara Céim. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (12 Sep 2002)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate and to express a timely warning to the Government on the reality facing it on this issue and all supporting a "Yes" vote. Whether it is known to the Government parties and the Minister responsible, there is a latent anger among the electorate. It will not be a case on this occasion of vast numbers not expressing an opinion. There will be a...

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: I move: That Seanad Éireann, conscious of the promises made by Government parties in the general election campaign that no cutbacks in public services were planned, condemns the Minister for Education and Science for increasing third level registration fees by 70%; slashing by €11 million initiatives to tackle school drop out rates; reducing by €6 million information technology...

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: What about the disadvantaged?

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: They are in remarkable contrast to the many dilapidated national schools throughout the country.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: That is what it is.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: They hung the Minister out to dry.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: There will be cuts.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: Some 50% of them have to find a job to get by.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: It was a priority.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: How many years have they been with the Department?

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: There will be another statement tomorrow from the Tánaiste.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: Is the Senator forgetting Mrs. Sinnott?

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: That is the sting.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: They are teaching in cloakrooms and corridors throughout the country.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: It already has happened.

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Acting Chairman for his flexibility in allowing the debate to continue to enable as many Members as possible to contribute. I also thank the Minister and the Minister of State – whom I welcome to the Seanad – for their presence for this important debate. I thank my colleagues, and the seconder of the motion, Senator McHugh, for their contributions, which I hope will lead to an...

Seanad: Address by President of the European Parliament. (10 Oct 2002)

Ulick Burke: I join in welcoming the President of the European Parliament to the House. Throughout his address, he strongly emphasised the term "ownership". One of the factors causing resistance towards Nice is that ordinary Irish people feel they are losing ownership of many of the institutions of Europe. Opinion polls taken in the early years of Ireland's membership in the 1970s always showed us as the...