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Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2004)

Ulick Burke: I will be brief. Will the Leader ask the relevant Minister to come to the House to discuss endowment mortgages? Many people with such mortgages are in a frightful situation where the insurance policy will be inadequate to pay off the mortgage when the policy matures.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: It will be Kerry again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: I support Senator O'Toole in what he said regarding my comments yesterday on the overrun of costs of projects in education. I welcome the fact that five projects have come off that long list. However, I am concerned that because it was a pilot scheme, the new Minister is bound to review this particular public private partnership scheme, which will inevitably cause delay for many projects...

Seanad: Disability Services: Motion. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: I propose to share my time with Senator McHugh.

Seanad: Disability Services: Motion. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I welcome the Bill. However, the motion before the House is farcical in the extreme. The motion states that Seanad Éireann, "recognises the ongoing commitment of the Government", and, "congratulates the Government for bringing forward a disability Bill honouring its pledge". How can this be reconciled with the Bill's memorandum that...

Seanad: Water and Sewerage Schemes. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter on the Adjournment. It refers to the report from Galway County Council on the upgrading of the pumping and storage facilities of the water system in Loughrea in order that work on the Kilrickle water scheme can be immediately started. Kilrickle has waited for up to 20 years for the provision of this water supply. The village has...

Seanad: Water and Sewerage Schemes. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2004)

Ulick Burke: A special report published yesterday in conjunction with the Comptroller and Auditor General's report focused on the pilot project relating to public private partnerships for school buildings. It clearly shows incompetence and wastage on the part of the Minister and the Department regarding the contract awarded in 1998. That contract involved the building of five schools, at Ballincollig,...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: Round 2 to the Minister.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: None more so than today.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister and compliment him on remaining here right through the debate and enduring a couple of lashes of the handbag. The Seanad, the other House and the public are being kept in the dark in regard to this legislation. I do not understand why we are expected to approve the legislation, which contains no overriding policy. Will the Minister inform the House to whom was Senator...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: I would welcome a response on the issue because many Members asked why was the legislation rushed through. I would like to know what is behind the challenge thrown down to the Minister this evening. It is one of the aspects about which we are all being kept in the dark. Perhaps he will make available to the public the reports on Cork, Shannon and Dublin, including the report requested by the...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: This sounds like the Fianna Fáil manifesto.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: Here and now.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is there another chapter in the speech?

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister should keep going.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: Who was going up in the past?

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: All talk.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister must have gone back to the other page in his speech.