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Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: There is another one in The Irish Times.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: We have had enough.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Into the corridors and cloakrooms.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: That was evident in the budget.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: There was no queue jumping.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Ministers of State, Deputies Brian Lenihan and Síle de Valera, for their presence. I thank my colleagues in the Fine Gael Party and the other Senators who spoke. It is an important debate and I hope that by moving this motion we can in some way help to make progress in what is an appalling situation for children and parents also. The Minister of State, Deputy Síle de Valera,...

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: That type of activity was duplicated so many times around the country, and we were all victims of that deception. We do not want the Minister of State simply telling us and the parents that she has a list of 400 schools on a website. We want the Minister of State to be full and frank with the boards of management of schools and to give them some guidelines as to when work will start. Nothing...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader of the House to impress on the Minister for Education and Science the urgency to call together immediately the ASTI and the school managerial bodies, so that we will not go in to 2003 with a renewed dispute on supervision and substitution in second level schools. Through the insistence and stubbornness of the previous Minister, this dispute has already cost €27 million...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I want to forewarn him that there is discrimination between schools of business in Dublin and—

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I would like to ask the Minister of State about the NDFA, the role of which is to advise, as Senator Mansergh has mentioned. Staff of local authorities were traditionally the best placed persons to give advice on the ground. Will the new agency seek advice from representatives of local authorities? If not, where do we stand in relation to the last Government's policy, as outlined in Better...

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: The Minister is losing touch.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Will the Minister confirm what Senator Mansergh has said, that it is a substitution for consultants? If this body is to substitute for consultants and there has to be an assessment by it of all projects throughout the country, surely it will have to call in consultants' expertise. If not, then the agency will be nothing more than a stalling group for endless projects, as in the Department of...

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: At the rate the Government is going it is proving itself wrong.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: What about the consultants?

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: One would not have to be an expert to know that.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: That is the third time the Minister of State has said that.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: A Bertie bowl Dáil. Amendment put and declared lost.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: The Minister of State did not answer my question about the engagement of consultants by the agency. Section 4(3) of the Bill clearly states—

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Did the Minister of State ever try?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (18 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: It is a disservice.