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Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I support Senator Terry and other Senators who called for action regarding the pay of people who were recruited in recent times to serve us in this House. No other group in the country has had to endure a reduced salary. The Department of Finance, in all new appointments made during the lifetime of this Seanad, offered the people who were recruited a reduced salary. It reflects badly on us as...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: Last week we saw in the Estimates that various Ministers and Departments have reduced substantially their dependence on consultants for reports they had commissioned over the years. The Minister of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has engaged engineering consultants MCOS to study on a county by county basis the conditions of the substandard roads and the potholes throughout the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Drug Treatment Services. (19 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. On 1 October 2003, the Western Health Board decided to discontinue and close the residential drug addiction and alcoholic centre associated with St. Brigid's Hospital in Ballinasloe. This service was established as far back as 1982. Since then it has served the wider catchment area of the eastern portion of the Western Health Board, in east Galway...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Drug Treatment Services. (19 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Act necessitates the separation of services. It will no longer be possible for patients with alcohol problems to be referred to a psychiatric institution. It is important that alcoholism is recognised as a disease that should be treated in the context of general health rather then psychiatric services. On behalf of those people who have worked in the service for so long, I look forward to...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Drug Treatment Services. (19 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: That is not true.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Drug Treatment Services. (19 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: From which source?

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader request the Minister for Education and Science to come to this House to discuss funding in education? We now face the situation where teachers and parents on boards of management at primary school level are to strike until they get the refurbishment programmes promised for the past two years. We are led to believe there will be further cuts in spending in this area. There are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Minister of State was a member of that council. He is in an internal conflict with his ministerial colleagues and should not use such situations to criticise civil servants.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I join other Senators in calling for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Coughlan, to come to the House. However, it is not of pensions or savings that I want an account, but social welfare claims. At present, many fraudulent social welfare claims are being discovered and the false claimants lose their claim. We welcome this. However, within the review mechanism many legitimate...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Derrybrien Wind Farm. (6 Nov 2003)

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

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Derrybrien Wind Farm. (6 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Cathaoirleach for choosing this item. I ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Ahern, to intervene with ESB International and Hibernian Wind Energy, which are developing the wind farm at Derrybrien in County Galway, to allay the fears of the local residents that no further danger will occur as a result of development works on site. I also ask the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Derrybrien Wind Farm. (6 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: Was the Minister of State not aware of the fact that the major landslide was the second on the site? He seems to have been unaware of the first one. Is he aware or will he investigate whether incentives or inducements were offered to certain residents to suppress adverse publicity? It is important that those particular investigations be carried out.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader request the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House to explain his stance on primary level teacher training? His lack of consultation with the established traditional teacher training bodies has raised their concerns, and that of students, regarding the proposed Hibernia College on-line teacher training course. While I recognise there is a shortage of national...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (Resumed). (5 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I wish the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, a speedy recovery and return to active ministerial duties. In recent years, people have changed their ways and become more conscious of the necessity to stop putting all our waste in bins and dumping it. Thankfully, the European Commission has recognised that we have changed our ways. However, the delivery...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2003)

Ulick Burke: I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to intervene as a matter of urgency with ESB, ESB International and Hibernian Wind Power in the case of the landslide in Derrybrien, County Galway to ensure the companies involved will provide absolute guarantees of safety to the residents and workers on site. The Minister should request that they...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader consider extending the time for the discussion of the Hanly report? Two and three quarter hours are scheduled for that debate but that may not be sufficient, as many Senators will want to express their views on the impact of the report on the health services all over the country and not just in the pilot areas. As a matter of urgency I ask the Leader to contact the Minister...

Seanad: National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Is that the new spin?

Seanad: National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: That is what the Government will tell the electorate.

Seanad: National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Minister is learning something if accident and emergency services are to be retained.

Seanad: National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: There was a time when people thought that there would be an acute hospital in Athlone.