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Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: He should be denied it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Over the past couple of years the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has sternly advocated the polluter pays policy of the Government. However, we have now learned that he has allowed large industries, which produce enormous quantities of greenhouse gases, to avoid paying pollution penalties. How can the Minister justify his support for the polluter pays policy, when...

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Did the Senator look up what the ESRI said?

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Before they had planning permission.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Government did not read them. It did not know from where they came.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: It has no roof.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: He failed to put a roof on the castle.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: I wish to share my time with Senator McHugh.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: There has been no planning or consultation regarding the decentralisation programme. Before it ever gets off the ground, it has failed. Recently, the Minister for Agriculture and Food, Deputy Walsh, introduced legislation which subsumed An Bord Glas into Bord Bia. I am surprised the Minister of State is so astonished. Up to ten jobs from An Bord Glas were listed by the Minister for Finance,...

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: How can the public, particularly those in An Bord Glas, ever understand or accept the sincerity behind the moves of this Government? I welcome the fact Loughrea is listedas a location for part of the Department of Transport.

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: However, we have been waiting five years, so why now the rush?

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is it the Leader's proposal that at 3.45 p.m. questions can be put to the Minister of State for the remaining quarter of an hour?

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is the proposal not later than that, but the Minister of State may prefer to come in earlier and take questions?

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is it proposed to be a minimum of 15 minutes or a maximum?

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is it proposed to take one question from each group or from Members?

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (11 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is the proposal to amend the Order of Business agreed to? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader to make time available as a matter of urgency for a debate on the EPA report on drinking water and the quality of water in our lakes, rivers and estuaries, published today. The most frightening aspect of the report is that many local authorities use seven times the permitted level of aluminium in the treatment. That aluminium has links with the increased rate of Alzheimer's...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is trying to bring us back to the days of dancing at the crossroads.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: Are the PDs one of those forces?

Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Miss de Valera, to the House. I am glad of the opportunity to express our opinions on the third and final interim report of Ms Justice Laffoy. From the Minister of State's address on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Dempsey, it would seem he is still in a state of denial in so far as he...