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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is this the first of many more to come?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is the Senator asking or telling?

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Education and Science to take action as quickly as possible on a report issued today by the INTO which indicates the number of male primary teachers is declining at an alarming rate. The Cathaoirleach will be aware of the concern expressed by the GAA over the years at the decline in participation in hurling as a consequence. Other social problems...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: It will never happen.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Will the Senator vote?

Seanad: Citizenship Applications. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children. I wish to raise the urgent need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to outline his proposals to rectify matters pertaining to persons who have resided in this State for more than five years, who have fulfilled the statutory and administrative requirements for citizenship and who submitted their...

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: No, I did not. The Minister should not further misrepresent me. On a point of order, if the Minister checks the record of what I said he will see he has misrepresented and misconstrued it. That is what he did in the letter I read to the House and he is at it again now.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Now the Minister is going back to what was said before. These are theshenanigans in which he wishes to engage. I came to the House out of courtesy to listen to theMinister, but he is merely going back to aprevious debate. He talked about something I said today and now he has gone back to something else.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: We all know what was said. The Minister need not split hairs.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: You should ask him to stick to the point, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. He has been missing it all day.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is the Minister talking about what I said today or what I said in February?

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: We have heard it all already.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: If the Leas-Chathaoirleach will give me the facility to repeat the Minister's letter expressing astonishment——

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: The facts are here in front of me. If the Minister does not have them I will gladly present them to him. That was a shot in the dark.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: The message is getting through. Hallelujah.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister was a member of the county council not so long ago. Did he choose them? That is the important question. If he cannot answer it——

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: That is what I told the Minister today. It was his own creation.

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Did the Minister give Deputy Fahey a glimpse of them?

Seanad: CLÁR Programme: Statements. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: This is all very intricate.