Results 2,661-2,680 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage. (23 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: Time will tell.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage. (23 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: It is a pity that advice was not available to the Sinnotts or the O'Donoghues.
- Seanad: Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage. (23 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Senator can continue dreaming.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters. (22 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this matter for debate on the Adjournment, and I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, for attending the House. The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, should indicate his willingness to upgrade Portiuncula Hospital to the status of a general hospital by utilising funds from the sale by the Western Health Board of property at...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters. (22 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: We have.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister. However, I regret that he has been so negative and is so obviously avoiding tackling the very real problem of house prices. I commend Senator Coghlan on bringing this Bill before the House, but it is regrettable that the Minister has avoided the real issue of the need to take immediate action. It is unbelievable that so many Senators on the other side of the House do...
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: How many local authority houses were built?
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: Does the Senator have the housing waiting lists?
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: How many people are on the housing lists?
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: That is all they can afford now.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: There was a great urgency about things yesterday.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: I am not sure if the Leader knows of the whereabouts of the Minister for Education and Science. Time and again we have asked for him to come to the House and to tackle four or five of the major issues that he indicated were his priorities. Nothing has happened about funding for third level education or access for the disadvantaged. The appointment of the teachers he promised a month ago will...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: On the occasion of the last Private Members' business in the House, involving a motion from the Progressive Democrats about decentralisation, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, indicated to the House that everything was going according to plan as regards the timescale initially set out for that programme. On the very next day he was interviewed by RTE and...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: Certainly. He is obliged to come back to the House to correct the record regarding the accuracy of the statement he made. Furthermore, will the Leader request the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to explain in the House the reason for the deteriorating conditions of many beaches throughout the country that lost their blue flag status? I refer in particular to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: Yes. Kinvara is the town in question, and I referred to it on the Order of Business previously. This issue is being ignored and it is time the Minister, particularly as president of the Environment Ministers in the EU, directed Galway County Council to prevent this.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: Will the Leader indicate whether the Minister for Education and Science will be coming before the House before the recess? Reports in today's newspapers indicate there is going to be a change in the variety of assessments used at leaving certificate level and that the NCCA proposes to abolish the transition year and the LCVP. Among the new assessment methods listed by the NCCA are written,...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: They were about self-promotion.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has failed to come before the House or to engage in the debate on the education process since he was rebuffed over third level fees.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has limited the intake at third levelââ
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Ulick Burke: ââof students wishing to train as primary teachers. He gave an undertaking that he would reduce to 20 the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level.