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

Ulick Burke: The Senator was expected to deliver it.

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

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, to the House. We all know that reorganisation of the health service is an absolute necessity. It is one of the key issues in the Hanly report, page 17 of which states: "The priority must be to provide a safe, high-quality service to all patients at all times." However, this statement is completely...

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

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Senator because he has, like me, a very important interest in Portiuncula Hospital in that constituency. Will the Minister of State confirm that if the conditions in the pilot areas, including his own health board area, are replicated in other areas, Portiuncula Hospital will be downgraded and we will also lose the accident and emergency and maternity units? These two...

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

Ulick Burke: We will not go into that again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: For a short duration.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader respond to the calls of many Members for a debate on planning issues as a matter of urgency? It has become more urgent given the announcement by the Taoiseach in the past week of the establishment of a national infrastructure body. In making this announcement and in his comments on the situation, the Taoiseach clearly slapped the hand of An Bord Pleanála and the delays...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: This clearly indicates that the Taoiseach wants to sideline An Bord Pleanála and the local planning authorities. In view of the Taoiseach's and his party's history on planning issues, they should be blamed for the delays. We must have an urgent debate on this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. - OECD Education Report: Statements. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: While I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, it is regrettable that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Dempsey, is not here. For the second week running we have statements on education, yet the Minister is not present to hear them. By any standards, the OECD figures demonstrate that Irish students have performed very well within our education system. Such a study...

Seanad: Order of Business. - OECD Education Report: Statements. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is still confused.

Seanad: Order of Business. - OECD Education Report: Statements. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: As I said, the Senator should sit on his hands.

Seanad: Order of Business. - OECD Education Report: Statements. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will they be getting a bonus? What about their survival rates?

Seanad: Order of Business. - OECD Education Report: Statements. (16 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will there be cutbacks?

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader make time available as a matter of urgency to debate the Hanly report in the House, which we believe is to be made public today and for which we have waited so long? Many hospital management groups throughout the country are in a state of shock about the future of their hospitals. It is important that we debate the Hanly report and its consequences for hospitals at the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is pandering to the people in Connemara.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, to come into House as soon as possible to explain his decision of yesterday when he announced the first instalment of the sacking of 5,000 civil servants—

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: —1,000 of whom are teachers or work within the education system? This announcement has been made at a time when posts that have become vacant in key, sensitive areas, which support people with special needs, have been frozen. If this procedure continues and yesterday's announcement is the first instalment of many more to come, where will education be in a short time under the Government? I...

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: It took 30 years.

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: Or 5%.

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: While I welcome the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, it is regrettable that the Minister responsible for this sorry saga is not present. I thought the Minister for Education and Science would come to the House and take the opportunity to clarify the misinformation emanating from his Department and provide accurate information to the public regarding what happened in the past....

Seanad: Order of Business: Motion. - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (7 Oct 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Government representatives are opposing each other.