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- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has circumvented the issue by avoiding the use of the word "individual" through including words such as "specific" time and again. A specific assessment is an individual assessment and I do not know where the difference lies. The use of "individual" would be consistent with most sections of the Bill. This has been highlighted repeatedly and I do not know why "specific" is used in...
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 3: In page 18, line 35, to delete "with the consent of" and substitute "having consulted with". Section 13 is probably the kernel of the Bill. While it may be fine to see the legislation on paper, the most important issue alluded to by Members of both Houses on Second and Committee Stages was the need for adequate resources and finance to deliver the service. We have...
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister of State for that reply. The Minister of State suggests that people who are not satisfied with the allocation of funding should go to the courts. When the Minister for Education and Science presented this legislation to the House, he indicated his absolute determination to avoid having to go to court at all costs. I do not intend a pun on the words "at all costs". The...
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 4: In page 19, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "(4) In exercising powers under subsection (1), special provision shall be made in respect of the increased demands placed on schools, in particular, Gaelscoileanna.". This amendment would ensure that children with special educational needs have the same rights to avail of and benefit from education as their...
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: In the run up to the last abortion referendum in 2002, much play was made of the fact that substantial resources, personnel and expertise would be put in place to help people with crisis pregnancies. In recent days, at least two women, and probably many more, have resorted to backstreet abortions. This is another clear example of the failure to implement the promises made then of support...
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: On what the Minister said with regard to the fairness with which he will deal with all representations to him, I remind him of what he said in the House. At, Official Report, 7 April 2004, vol. 176, col. 276, he said: It is only a short time ago that Senator Ulick Burke was strongly critical in the House of the proposals of the Government to change the governance of the dormant accounts. He...
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has it all.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: That is what the Minister claims. Who has the say in that case?
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: It is very hard to listen to that.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Is the Minister open to suggestions?
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Now we are getting to the kernel of the matter.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister certainly has, and reaped the rewards.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: What is that?
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Senator should keep going. He is hitting the nail on the head.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: Regarding the disbursements plan, can the Minister reconcile what is stated in the proposed section 42(2)(b) of the principal Actââ
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I am dealing with the disbursements plan to which the Minister referred and I beg the indulgence of the Acting Chairman. The proposed subsection (2)(b) states that the plan must be prepared in a form and manner in accordance with any guidelines and directions that may be issued by the Minister. Can the Minister reconcile that provision with a statement made by the Minister for Finance in the...
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Government got away with it for seven years.