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

Ulick Burke: Especially the Minister's own constituency.

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

Ulick Burke: How many such programmes have been supported in this way, as the Minister is speaking off the cuff?

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

Ulick Burke: We are listening to fantasy.

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

Ulick Burke: Thank the Lord.

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

Ulick Burke: Like the Minister.

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

Ulick Burke: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The Minister should stop rambling.

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

Ulick Burke: The Minister must be getting the message in his constituency.

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

Ulick Burke: Praise the Lord.

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

Ulick Burke: It would be a mass exodus.

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

Ulick Burke: Will the Minister answer the question? How many small sewerage schemes have benefited——

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

Ulick Burke: Yes.

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

Ulick Burke: The Minister is talking fantasy.

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

Ulick Burke: The Minister's people.

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

Ulick Burke: It is not in the west Galway constituency.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Education and Science to review the allocation of teachers on post-leaving certificate courses? PLCs have provided an important opportunity to many people from disadvantaged backgrounds to re-enter the education system or engage in training. It is of the utmost importance that such courses should be retrained. Under the new allocation, many of the courses...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: People prided themselves on the application of the three Rs in education. A survey on education today in the Irish Independent highlights the plague of the three Ds, drink, drugs and Deputy Noel Dempsey, the Minister for Education and Science. We have invited the Minister to the Seanad to outline his policies to deal with the problems in education, many of which he has exacerbated by...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Senator did not get very far.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Apr 2004)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, to the House in view of the fact that during the week Teagasc, at its seminar in the midlands on rural development and rural decline, indicated the serious situation in regard to agriculture and the declining income from agriculture. In the 1990s, 14% of the population was solely dependent on...

Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (31 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I congratulate the Minister for Health and Children on his determination in seeing this legislation through. It is welcomed by many people. The various interest groups which raised difficulties in recent months have come to realise that there is widespread public support for the banning of smoking in public places. There is particularly strong support for the banning of smoking in licensed...

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (31 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I remind Senators that a Senator may speak only once on Report Stage except in the case of a proposer of an amendment who may reply to the discussion on it. Each amendment must be seconded on Report Stage.