Results 2,521-2,540 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: On a point of order, will the Minister examine the record pertaining to when he last dealt with this item in this House to see what he said at the timeââ
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: ââand how it contradicts with his last statement? It is unbelievable that the Minister can turn this on its head within such a short period.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: For as long as.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: He created a few more.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has always done that.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Ministerââ
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: We heard this.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister should quote himself and not mind Deputy McGinley, who is not in the House.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The majority was spent in his own constituency in west Galway.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I brought them in and showed them to the Ministerââ
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: ââin the House under those circumstances.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister takes exception to that suggestion.
- Seanad: National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: There are thousands of children for whom funding for special educational needs is required. Over the years many backbenchers, Ministers of State and some Ministers in the area of education and in other areas have been crying out for the required funding. As Senators McCarthy and O'Toole said, the Minister for Finance has held the reins tightly, as is his prerogative. The best legislation in...
- Seanad: Barron Report: Statements. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: It is proposed to allow Senator Jim Walsh to speak for 15 minutes as he was a member of the Sub-Committee on the Barron Report. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I appreciate that and I will be guided by your direction, a Chathaoirligh. Yesterday, we mentioned the issue of trained teachers in the context of the Bill. Currently, the Department of Education and Science is training no more than 35 teachers per annum at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick to work with children with special needs. Given that throughput, can the Minister of State explain...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: We do not have a choice.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: We are awaiting a reply from the Minister of State on section 9.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 31: In page 17, subsection (8), line 45, after "it" to insert "within one week". Subsection 11(8) requires the principal of the school to whom the direction is given under subsection 11(7) to comply with the requirements laid down. No timescale is stated. It is accepted that the procedures provide for in the Bill will involve delay. This requirement should not be left...
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (7 Jul 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister of State has been inconsistent in that she has admitted there have been amendments to the Bill to avoid delay but she is now leaving it open-ended. Every school principal faces a huge additional work load where there are children with special educational needs but to leave the timescale at the discretion of the board is inconsistent and it would be regrettable if the Minister of...