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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Ulick Burke: The Senator should remember what happened to Senator White.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (3 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this item. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, to the House. The proposal is that the Minister for Education and Science would sanction and indicate the resources she will make available for the extension to Mercy College, Woodford, County Galway. This school was built as a stand-alone school in the 1980s for 220 students. With an...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (3 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: There was no mention of special needs in the reply and I ask the Minister of State to emphasise that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Yesterday a report of the court proceedings of the Meath school bus tragedy heard that further summonses were to be issued to CIE in regard to a bus that was known to be a danger to the public and that had a known defect that could easily have been detected had it been checked. There was a repeat of a similar tragedy in Clara and a further accident occurred in south Roscommon only two weeks...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: The Acting Leader will have to think of a reply.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Now we are talking.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: The Senator has no trust in the Tánaiste.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: That has been known to happen. I have listened to the Government side as to who must take the blame for the crisis in accident and emergency services. Senator Feeney referred to the doctors, the unions and the nurses as part of the problem because they resist the best efforts of the Tánaiste to implement change. Senator Daly mentioned as many more. When the Tánaiste took over the health...

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Perhaps if some of the eminent medics come into the Oireachtas, they will resolve the situation with the help of those already in place. We will welcome them in.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: If 60 beds in University Hospital Galway have remained out of commission for two years, what is there other than a crisis in the accident and emergency system? Some of the comments made by the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley, about the Fine Gael proposals were scurrilous. He brought into question the situation for those with mental illness. They were never involved in this and he was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: For several hours yesterday we debated the crisis in accident and emergency departments. Many Senators outlined the difficulties with and at accident and emergency departments throughout the country. Many of these relate to the abuse and assaults that nursing staff and professional people must endure in such situations. That pales into insignificance when compared with the numbers of assaults...

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Was it a political initiative?

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Was the former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, among them?

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: I wish to share my time with Senator Cummins. I support the motion before the House. As the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, has just said it would be ideal if we had cross-party agreement on how the register can be improved and reached a consensus on a reasonable and responsible way to tackle the problem. He has argued that if we are experts on anything, it is on the voting register....

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: People temporarily working at a distance from home, wherever that may be, may not have ease of transport except on a Friday evening. Those people may want to vote in a particular area, whether it be here in Dublin or Kerry, Galway or Donegal. They should have——

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: ——a transferable vote, precisely. With the greatest respect to the Minister of State and other Dublin city based general election candidates, some people may not necessarily want to vote in Dublin. I am not discussing personalities. They may prefer to vote in their own local areas and we should have a mechanism to allow them to do so. I agree that many of those measures would and can be...

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: My apologies. I understood I had three minutes.

Seanad: Electoral Register: Motion. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: I thought I had four minutes. Tonight's motion includes ways to deal with this matter in the short term.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: I also welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for taking this matter. The school in question is St. Catherine's national school, Aughrim, Ballinasloe, County Galway. The school has run into a difficulty causing an additional delay, although the school authorities agree with the Department officials that it is necessary. St. Catherine's national school was built in 1949 and has had no...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (10 May 2006)

Ulick Burke: Having been classed in band 2, will the development of St. Catherine's be fast tracked?