Results 441-460 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke

Seanad: Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed). (25 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: Hear, hear. A typical PD.

Seanad: Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed). (25 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: He is obviously vulnerable.

Seanad: Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed). (25 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley. I am glad the House has the opportunity of debating these reports. I agree with the Leader of the House, Senator O'Rourke, as to the urgency of implementing this programme. If implementation of the reports and reforms has to wait three years, they will have lost their initiative. We have had a rash of reports in connection with the health...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: I wish to raise with the Deputy Leader the serious concerns recently expressed by the chairperson of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Professor Tom Mitchell, who is deeply worried about the further cutbacks which the Minister for Education and Science has made in the area of research for graduates. Most Members of the House would agree that the catalyst for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: It is time Senator Dooley showed concern for the situation he has left, perhaps hoping to return.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: Who claimed responsibility?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: Is the Senator trying to re-establish his roots in the countryside after his flight?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: Senator Dooley is going back. I am sure Senator Daly will welcome him.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Prisons Service. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the House and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this issue. I am raising this issue in the hope that the Minister of State will give the assurances necessary to the community in Ballinasloe that the Government has better plans than those that are currently the subject of rumour in Ballinasloe in respect of the possible expansion...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Prisons Service. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: I implore the Minister of State, who has represented the constituency for many years, to relay the message to the Minister for Finance that, first, the people in this middle Shannon region want designation and, second, that they will not accept an expansion of the Prisons Service in Ballinasloe.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Prisons Service. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: No, but I do not want a response from the Government that there will be an expansion of the Prisons Service in a site in the town.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Prisons Service. (27 Jun 2003)

Ulick Burke: I appreciate that. However, given his special local knowledge, he is well capable of expanding on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jul 2003)

Ulick Burke: Tragically, we and the public realise that the penalty points system is not working. The slaughter on the roads over the weekend and the significant increase in road deaths for the months of May and June is an appalling indication of the failure of the penalty points system. We have to point the finger fairly and squarely at Ministers, despite their laudable efforts to take action. The...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements. (2 Jul 2003)

Ulick Burke: I appreciate the Acting Chairman's efforts to allow me make my contribution. I welcome the Minister to the House for this debate. I acknowledge the difficult situation he had to encounter during the past fortnight in negotiating what has transpired. Most understand decoupling means separating land from production. I see this as separating the farmer from the land from hereon. Despite the...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements. (2 Jul 2003)

Ulick Burke: When we use the words, "from the farm gate to the plate", we eliminate the farmer from the process. Bord Bia can call on a restaurant owner and ask from where he or she gets his or her meat. In reply the owner can say he or she produces it on his or her farm and processes it and that it is quality Irish beef. If one wishes to secure certification under the Bord Bia stamp of approval, one has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Ulick Burke: That is sentimental. This is the silly season back again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is pandering to the people in Connemara.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, to come into House as soon as possible to explain his decision of yesterday when he announced the first instalment of the sacking of 5,000 civil servants—

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: —1,000 of whom are teachers or work within the education system? This announcement has been made at a time when posts that have become vacant in key, sensitive areas, which support people with special needs, have been frozen. If this procedure continues and yesterday's announcement is the first instalment of many more to come, where will education be in a short time under the Government? I...

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: It took 30 years.