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Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is that what it is called?

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: Nobody doubted that.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is trying the old tricks when the others fail.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: Nobody said that.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister should not draw us on that subject.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: That is why Deputy Noel Dempsey is where he is today.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: He was mentioned in dispatches.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: It was hard to get it.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: That is the Minister's problem this evening.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: No one suggested otherwise.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister and all the Senators who contributed to the debate. I want to repudiate the idea that anyone on this side of the House feels that St. Angela's is in any way inferior, as was intimated. No one on this side of the House implied that. The Leader of the House recently inferred that Members on this side of the House regard Sligo in isolation. Nobody made those inferences and...

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: Some of the Senator's facts were a little over the top.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister said she will meet the staff. Does the Minister know the reason the previous Minister ignored the governors, staff and students of St. Catherine's? The Minister will meet them with one purpose which is, as the previous Minister said, to offer her condolences and to help them relocate and redeploy. This is a matter to do with people's lives and they cannot relocate at certain...

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: This will not solve the problem——

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister is of no use if that is her only offer. I asked the Minister to meet them in the context of discussing openly and fairly the rescinding of the previous Minister's decision.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Fine Gael motion asks the Minister to meet with the staff, governors and students with a view to rescinding the decision. The previous Minister said something was in place. The one focus was to facilitate an easy redeployment or early retirement scheme. Minister, your reply is useless and disappointing.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: I will do so.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: In the context of a fundamental appraisal by the Dominican congregation of their role as trustees in educational institutions generally, the trustees of St. Catherine's decided that, for personal and financial reasons, they were no longer in a position to fulfil their role as trustees of the college. That did not necessitate closure but that is what came through in your speech as I interpreted it.

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: I move: That Seanad Éireann, in view of the political interference in respect of the decision of the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to close St. Catherine's College of Education, Sion Hill, calls on the newly appointed Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, to rescind this decision forthwith.