Results 261-280 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: I hate to interrupt the Ministerâ
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: âbut she spent more money promoting farm assist last year. That money would have allowed everybody in the scheme to continue.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: It is a fact.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: And the back-to-education allowance.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister uses the words "at the moment". Is she considering a change?
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: Three years is too late for many of those participating.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: I thank Senator Browne for sharing his time. I support the Labour Party motion. The Minister for Health and Children's speech was provocative and will anger most people who will read and analyse it. The jargon he used shows how out of touch he is. His recent actions indicate that his hands are tied, perhaps because he is being constrained by the Minister for Finance. We have been told on many...
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: It is obvious that it is being revised at his request.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: Many people in the health sector, particularly those involved in the delivery of medical services and in hospital management boards, are terrified about the contents of the report. I ask the Minister, in the context of the great tension that exists with regard to the report, which will have been revised because of its political sensitivities, to publish it as soon as it is available.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: Who is the Senator pointing the finger at?
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Senator has enough spin doctors to do that.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Government dropped it.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)
Ulick Burke: It shows our failure.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: I call on the Leader to request the Minister for Agriculture and Food to personally intervene in the current difficulties within his Department where clerical personnel yesterday received notice by e-mail that they had been taken off the payroll. If industrial relations within Departments have descended to that level, there will be serious consequences. Many farmers have great difficulty...
- Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority Bill 2002 [ Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages. - Business of Seanad. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: What about crime?
- Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: What about action?
- Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: The lobby is getting at the Senator.
- Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: There would be substantial costs.
- Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)
Ulick Burke: The plinths were worn by the efforts in a previous Government's time.