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Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: There were to be no waiting lists within two years of this Government taking office.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: We want the money to be spent properly.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: PPARS.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: The Senator will be lucky to be sitting on the Government benches.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Minister said she came in to deal with health reform but her statement was that it was meaningless to most people. Those are her words, open to correction on the blacks when they come out eventually. When a Minister for Health and Children says that reform is meaningless to most people, surely that is a clear admission of the fact that the...

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: If Senators Daly or Feeney want to check, I suggest they go downstairs and get a copy of the blacks. I took down what she said verbatim.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: She said it is meaningless to most people. That is the reality of the situation today.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: People have problems securing access to the health service, although those who get in receive very good care, there is no doubt about that.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Those who can get treatment are satisfied with it but access is the problem. Senator Minihan mentioned the same matter of access. Some Senators have said that matters have improved. What about the length of the waiting lists and the problems in accident and emergency units?

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Those Senators should sit for five minutes in any accident and emergency unit to witness the reality of the crisis in the health service.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Can the Minister of State tell me definitively whether the Hanly report still represents Government policy?

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Can Senator Daly tell his electorate in County Clare that, as of now, the Hanly report represents Government policy? What about the additional medical cards that were promised? The shortfall in the number granted represents another major problem. The Minister should selectively grant cards to diabetics, coeliacs and asthmatics who, because of the number of times they need medical...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: In the past ten years or more, the credibility of our planning process has taken serious knocks on numerous occasions. A recent decision of the High Court which agreed a decision by An Bord Pleanála that planning permission for a landfill facility in County Kildare be overturned seems to question the credibility of the processes within An Bord Pleanála. It asked that it be quashed because...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Paddy the plasterer was there too.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister for Education and Science to the House and thank the Leader for arranging this debate on foot of our learning last week of the report's launch. The method by which many people learned about the report rang alarm bells and, despite the Minister's best efforts to aver otherwise, most people are clear in their minds that the leaking of the report to certain sections of...

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: In any event, the Minister has done nothing since. Although three reports have been produced in the period from 1995 to the present that have urged and demanded a proper review and assessment of the modern needs of teacher training, nothing was done by either the Department of Education of Science or successive predecessors of the Minister. When one considers the report's foreword by the...

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: That coloured the outcome.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: He always is.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: We will not get any action.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: The inspectors have much to learn.